So far, the Missus & I have done a few 5,000km road trips and one 10,000km road trip on our 2013 RT without any issues at all.... except maybe that we'da liked to've kept on going!! :shocked: And we've done a heap of shorter trips too, doing a few hundred kms at least on one weekend or so most months, and often racking up 2-2500km in a few weeks whenever we can, and so far, we've done it all without any Spyder troubles! :2thumbs:
For our 'big trip' next year we are planning another 'longish' trip, probably gonna cover around 10-12,000 km all up, but this time we're heading West across the Nullarbor thru the wide open spaces of Australia instead of into the more populated Eastern States - which means we'll be crossing a couple of thousand kms of pretty much
NOTHING besides road, with no trees for a lot of it (hence the Latin name - Null-Arbor = No Trees!
) and btw, there's not too many towns out there either, only about 5 service stations spaced fairly evenly along the way. We'll get to ryde what's been called the '
Longest stretch of road with NO corners in the World' too! Oh, and we'll be doing the World's longest Golf Course along the way - maybe we'll even do it in reverse on the way back! :roflblack:
I bought my 2013 RT Ltd with a degree of consideration for avoiding ending up as an 'un-paid crash test dummy' for BRP re their then 'new' 1330 ACE Triple cylinder motor, and after having done quite a few miles on the road, test tracks, & skid pans ryding both V-twin & 1330 powered Spyders, I am just
SOO GLAD that I stuck with the already proven, peppier, & more 'alive' V-Twin! Sure, the 1330 triples have scads of down low torque & they do sorta eventually get moving once you wring them out, and I'm sure that for some they might press all the necessary buttons & be a fantastic ryde, but just like Many GS/RS ryders who feel
their Spyders are more exciting to ryde than any RT, we feel our lighter & peppier V-twin engined RT is much more exciting than it's bigger but lazier engined cousins! At least to me (& my Missus) the 1330 powered Spyders just aren't
anywhere near as exciting or as much fun to ryde as our lighter, revvier, & far more responsive V-twin engined machine! And since we've had an ECU Upgrade done by RotaxRacing, not only do we get EVEN BETTER performance than most when twisting that right wrist hard, but also when we are just laid back cruising the miles away, we get pretty close to the same range as the 1330's do too!
hyea: (there's no denying that the V-twins
DO use a bit more oil tho!
)
Still rugercharger, I reckon you should just get out there & enjoy your Spyder, secure in the knowledge that (at least in the eyes of some of us!
) you chose the 'sweet pick' out of the available engines for your RT Spyder! :thumbup:
hyea: :yes:
Just
Ride More, Worry Less! 
