Co-rider feedback

[dizzyspots]

So for all of you that are blessed with a co-rider on your Spyder...what does she like and dislike? How long to acclimate from simply looking into the turn on a 2 wheeler to "hanging on" in a turn? and after some "seat time"...does she still "hang on" in a turn or is it now more relaxed..

Cheers
Mike

 

[dave01]

Maybe its a he. The picture of Doc and Forrest has been posted before.

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[smoky]

So for all of you that are blessed with a co-rider on your Spyder...what does she like and dislike? How long to acclimate from simply looking into the turn on a 2 wheeler to "hanging on" in a turn? and after some "seat time"...does she still "hang on" in a turn or is it now more relaxed..

Cheers
Mike

The main reason we bought an RT Spyder and gave up the Harley is so my bride would again ride with me. She is a great co-rider but is having to learn to hang on with me in the curves. Straight line riding is good if I can keep her awake....we are now planning a two week oddesey in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho next year.

 

[Jeriatric]

The main reason we bought an RT Spyder and gave up the Harley is so my bride would again ride with me. She is a great co-rider but is having to learn to hang on with me in the curves. Straight line riding is good if I can keep her awake....we are now planning a two week oddesey in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho next year.

Does she go all "woodpecker" when she falls asleep? That's what I nick named my wife years ago. We wouldn't be down the road thirty minutes and her helmet would hit mine, snap back, and do it again....... I'd just crack up and hope the armrests held her on the wing. Once I threatened to put a candy cain on top of the trunk and a an eyelet through her helmet just to make sure she didn't fall off.

 

[Blue Star]

I ride an RS, and the best thing I did for my wife was get a back rest. Now she don't feel like she is gonna fall off when I take off.

 

[Harley]

As a new owner and with my little wife never riding with me on the Gold Wing, I was not sure she would try the Spyder. After a quick test ride at Cowtown, things changed for the better. After much begging and pleading we purchased a 2012 RT and now she suggests we go for a ride.. Oh by the way, the intercom helped. Now she can do her back-seat driving, Ha ha

 

[jos]

I ride an RS, and the best thing I did for my wife was get a back rest. Now she don't feel like she is gonna fall off when I take off.

Having the Utopia back rest on the RT LTD, the Minister of War is firmly wedged into position, awake or asleep !

 

[fastfraser]

Let me wake her up or disturb her from reading her Kindle. We have the Corbin seat with armrest that keep her in place. Over 36,000 miles in 3 years and she only holds on when I go hard in the twisties !

 

[Bob Denman]

My Missus took to it about like a duck takes to water... :thumbup: Of course; she's had tons of experience on snowmobiles and ATVs so the lateral Gs during turning weren't a mystery to her...
Now that we've got the Teamset Pro intercoms hooked to our helmets, she too can "backseat drive" to her heart's content... :shocked:

 

[Radthorne]

When we first got the RT, my wife held on to the passenger grips all the time (which became a bit tiring). As she got more comfortable back there (and seeing other ladies on the back waving their arms in the wind, must be a fun passenger thing), she's now grown quite comfortable without using the grips at all, except for rapid turns. We also added the Utopia backrest for me, which gives her more of a feeling of stability back there as well. We were originally going to get the Corbin armrests, but now she doesn't feel any need for them.

 

[NorthStar]

Initially, my wife would hold on yikes to the passenger handles whenever we entered a curvenojoke. With time she now only grabs for the handles when we are going through a series of tight curves at very high speed.

I had a set of Elka front shocks installed on my 2010 RT at Spyderfest last Wednesday and went on "spirited" runs on some of the craziest curved back roads I could find down in the Cuba area. I was looking to lessen the front end roll on the RT with the addition of these shocks and I got exactly the performance I was looking for. A side effect of the improvement in handling was the fact that my wife was no longer having to reach for the grab rails unless I was attempting to push the Spyder to the edge on some of the aforementioned curves.

I now think she considers not holding on to the passenger handles as a badge of honor.

 

[ARtraveler]

My ryder, Linda, (aka. akspyderlady), took about a hundred miles before she became comfortable last year. We put on almost 200 miles this weekend for our first dual rydes of the year. I have a really twisty road close to my home (4 or 5) 15 mile per hour curves in a 5 mile (45 mph) area. The first ryde was hold on and re learn the g forces thing. By the end of the rydes this weekend, she was feeling much better about it. Last summer Linda got 5000 miles of seat time and wants to learn to drive the RT this summer.

 

[daveinva]

The GF loves going on rides, but I don't think she'll ever be up for touring on the RS, it's just too cramped for her back there. She's more than happy to encourage me to buy an RT for that (if only!).

That said, now that we have the Vespa in the driveway, I'm expecting her to want her own touring ride soon enough .

 

[Littlebadwolf]

Wife got fed up riding on the back of our RS and we wound up getting one of her own....solved that problem...

 

[flaggerphil]

My wife has never uses the hand holds...she just rests her hands on me. She loves riding on the back, way more than she liked riding on the back of my V Star.

My son, OTOH, never lets go of the hand holds when he rides with me. Says he loves it, though. My daughters ride the same way my wife does.