I would've thought that since Spyders have been around for more than 10 years & we passed the '100,000 Spyders sold' a couple of years back now and that the BEST warranties can only be extended so much, that in the overall scheme of things it'd most likely be that
MOST Spyder owners are ryding machines that no longer have any warranty, and that
MOST are doing it without any concerns or issues at all! :dontknow:
Certainly here in Oz that's extremely likely to be the case, and I know the warranty on my 2013 RT ran out about 5 years ago now and not having a warranty hasn't been of the slightest concern to me or the machine! If anything, it's made my Spyder Ryding & Owning a fair bit
MORE enjoyable, cos now I can do things without wondering or even caring if it'll impact upon any future warranty claims or issues - If I do something that damages or breaks my Spyder, it's all on me! But it's been pretty damn reliable & capable so far, and anything I've played with has only made it work better
for me! :lecturef_smilie:
As for that 'least reliable' bit, I'm pretty convinced that it's largely just a furphy, with a lot of it being driven by the '2-wheeler motorcycle industry & media', maybe not conciously or maliciously, but there's no denying that many of that ilk take every opportunity to bag anything different &/or anything that might challenge their preconceived ideas & prejudices, so they highlight and focus on all the 'baaad' things they see and hear!! And it's true, it might
seem to be that there's a fair bit of bad stuff they can focus on - just take a look at this Forum.... how many threads are there about how great ryding our Spyders/Rykers can be, and how many posts do we see telling us that someone hasn't hadta make a warranty claim in over saaayy 60,000 miles of ryding & ownership?!? This's all obviously cos ALL Spyders are extremely unreliable & likely to spend more time in the shop than they do on the road, isn't it?!
CRAP! Forums & social media pages devoted to things like Spyders are the places where people go to vent their frustrations and to ask for help about any/all the problems they might have, so
OF COURSE it
looks bad, when in fact it
looks a whole lot worse than it really is!!
There's what, almost 24,000 members here, out of somewhat more than 100,000 Spyders sold.... so even if you assume that most members here own at least 2 Spyders currently (which I doubt!) that would still mean that about half of the Spyders ever made are very likely still out there doing their thing without much in the way of problems at all!! But wait.... there's only 8,500 or so of the members here who are active on the boards, so it's possible if not likely that the 'about half of the Spyders ever made' bit is waaay closer to 'about three quarters' or even more!! And you don't want to get me started on the why's & wherefores about Spyder Owners tending to worry more about trifling things &/or complain about stuff that doesn't even raise a blip on the radar for the owners of most other similar 'life-style' machines - even tho it's all there for them too; they just accept it as part of the deal & get on with the 'enjoyment' bit!
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So yeah, I do reckon it's pretty likely that
MOST Spyder's out there no longer have any warranty at all, and that
MOST Spyders & Spyder Ryders have few if any concerns about that, even if some few of the
minority others might worry, quite possibly needlessly.....
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