Need Some Reassurance

[Chupaca]

There you go...!!

You wanted reassurance..you got it. I have always said this place is like a doctors office. You are not going to find the healthy here. You have to ask, as you did, to get the healthy to come in and comment. I don't have those models mentioned but have had zero problems, issues, brakedowns, limp modes etc. You will be fine. Summer is coming and this place will be jumping with heat comments...your sitting on a rather large internal combustion engine with some flimsy plastic to sheild you. Expect some heat, some noise, some vibrations etc....:lecturef_smilie: Go for it..!! :thumbup:

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

Blame the internet the fear mongering

GMAN9,
As others have said, this is not to dismiss lightly your concern, but to try to add perspective. I was discussing this sort of thing with my local Honda dealer a couple months back. If, say 20 years ago before the explosion of internet communications, 100 bikes around the country had a particular issue, and 100,000 had been sold, that would be 1% of the ones sold that had a problem. That would have been an average of 2 bikes per state. You would probably never hear of the problem bikes simply because there weren't enough to garner attention. Today, if 100 bikes around the country have a problem, probably 20 to 40 of them are going to be discussed on internet forums like this one. Now, wow, it sure looks like there is a serious widespread problem. But there really isn't.

It's well known in marketing that bad experiences get reported 10 to 100 times more intensely than good experiences.

Yes, there have been bike fires, but how many? Enough to say it's a widespread problem? Maybe not. I'm going to make a wild ass guess that you are far more likely to get T-boned by a careless cager than have a bike catch fire under your butt. But we don't talk much about the T-bone cases because, well, they just are not as dramatic even though they are just as, if not more, serious than fires.

 

[GMAN9]

Real Appreciative

That's why I love this site! This place has some of the most encouraging people I know...and I really don't know any of you! YET! Well except for the people who post the most (Bob Denman) did I say that out loud! You guys are full of opinions...and you know what they say about opinions....they are like vacuum cleaners and they all suck! Just kidding! Thanks for the encouragement...and I hope to be buying a 2013 ST-S Spyder for my 45th birthday(mid life crisis) coming up in May! Can't wait to get out and meet some of you fine people!

:bowdown:

 

[Bob Denman]

This is for a Mid-Life Crisis? :shocked:
Well; they ARE cheaper than a Blonde, "20-Something", girlfriend! :roflblack: :2thumbs:

 

[GMAN9]

Amen Brother!

This is for a Mid-Life Crisis? :shocked:
Well; they ARE cheaper than a Blonde, "20-Something", girlfriend! :roflblack: :2thumbs:

Totally agree....heck I can't afford the wife I have! I think her shoe collection totals more than the cost of my new Spyder!

 

[murphybrown]

Just go ahead and get the matching trailer NOW

Totally agree....heck I can't afford the wife I have! I think her shoe collection totals more than the cost of my new Spyder!

A gal needs to be able to take shoes..otherwise she will be limited to the pair she wears and the ones she sits on!!! Just a little advise to make sure wifey is a happy Spyder passenger.. :yes::yes:

 

[BajaRon]

Mayby 2 Spyder trailers?

 

[Bob Denman]

My Missus has her own Wing, in the Imelda Marcos "Ode to Wretched Excess" Museum... :shocked:
She'd need her own 48 foot trailer!