Recluze
New member
As of yesterday, June 30th, I am no longer a Spyder owner. I drove it 45,319 miles and that is the total extent of my motorcycle riding experience.
During that time I crossed the country twice, visited places I had no reason to go to and saw more of this beautiful country than I ever thought I would. 98 % of my riding was on two lane roads. This is where America lives. 99.99 % of it was alone. This gave me a lot of time to think about things. Well at least I was alone until I stopped and then I never seemed to be left alone. i would guess there were less than ten times that I stopped that someone did NOT come over to comment on the bike.
During that time the Recluse Spyder never failed to start. It never broke down. It has never thrown a code. It ran kind of knarley at one point because a tube to the throttle body had come out when I replaced the plugs. I attribute this reliability to a well designed bike, good maintenance and few performance mods: Green air filter, titanium tipped plugs and a GPS hook up. The most bothersome problem I had was oil leaks that I believed were caused by an oil catch can mod that was not working properly. This resulted in an engine tear down that showed some of the weak points in the dealer's service ability.
The biggest design flaw was the DPS locking up intermittently. I was one of the first to experience this and suffered through this while BRP came up with a fix. While this had been working fine for some 10,000 miles I never trusted it ever again.
I would say that BRP did a really good job for a radical new design. I love radical new designs. This being their first over-the-road, constant use vehicle they made a few mistakes in customer service and dealer selection. I think they also drastically underestimated how many miles per year people would drive these things. They may have underestimated how many newbies they brought into the fold, like me, who had high expectations for a vehicle.
Spyder Lovers has been a constant source of information. Most of it has been good. I did learn to be selective in whose advice I listened to. Thank you to all of those who helped. Patience to those who are having problems and are frustrated. In a 100 years it won't matter in any case.
Good luck to all of you and enjoy your ride. I need to go find something else and I am not sure what it is.
During that time I crossed the country twice, visited places I had no reason to go to and saw more of this beautiful country than I ever thought I would. 98 % of my riding was on two lane roads. This is where America lives. 99.99 % of it was alone. This gave me a lot of time to think about things. Well at least I was alone until I stopped and then I never seemed to be left alone. i would guess there were less than ten times that I stopped that someone did NOT come over to comment on the bike.
During that time the Recluse Spyder never failed to start. It never broke down. It has never thrown a code. It ran kind of knarley at one point because a tube to the throttle body had come out when I replaced the plugs. I attribute this reliability to a well designed bike, good maintenance and few performance mods: Green air filter, titanium tipped plugs and a GPS hook up. The most bothersome problem I had was oil leaks that I believed were caused by an oil catch can mod that was not working properly. This resulted in an engine tear down that showed some of the weak points in the dealer's service ability.
The biggest design flaw was the DPS locking up intermittently. I was one of the first to experience this and suffered through this while BRP came up with a fix. While this had been working fine for some 10,000 miles I never trusted it ever again.
I would say that BRP did a really good job for a radical new design. I love radical new designs. This being their first over-the-road, constant use vehicle they made a few mistakes in customer service and dealer selection. I think they also drastically underestimated how many miles per year people would drive these things. They may have underestimated how many newbies they brought into the fold, like me, who had high expectations for a vehicle.
Spyder Lovers has been a constant source of information. Most of it has been good. I did learn to be selective in whose advice I listened to. Thank you to all of those who helped. Patience to those who are having problems and are frustrated. In a 100 years it won't matter in any case.
Good luck to all of you and enjoy your ride. I need to go find something else and I am not sure what it is.
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