Tom in NM
New member
Yesterday, I picked up 150#s of feed from a grain store on my Spyder. The trip home was so smooth.
I have a stock SE5, the only add-on I have is the trunk spring. I am a small guy, 145#s. The shocks are set as I got them, on setting 3. I ride with firm tires. I ride alone, which, if you knew me, you would understand.
I had read about others bumping up their shocks and loving the ride and handling. I was planning on testing that out by doing the same. Now, I am going to go the other way - bump them down.
As I said, the ride home was so smooth, roads and intersections where the pavement is rough, the Spyder just floated over it. Usually I get up on the pegs and my butt 4 to 6"s off the seat and let my knees take the shocks. Even then, the seat sometimes smacks my behind. If I try to sit out the bumps in the road, it is like I am going down a set of stairs on my butt.
Actually, I enjoy feeling the road and getting up on the pegs - I consider this real riding, whether on a Spyder or a horse. But, yesterdays experience has me thinking a little more "smooooth" would be nice. So we will see.
Bottom line; it is nice to tweak some of the things on the Spyder. We all adjust to how things are when we first experience them, like Ron and some of the others finally discovering that they didn't have power steering. But, as St. Lamont has shown us, you can change anything. (though I am still not sold on the idea of the DooTrailer). Adjusting some of the easy things on the Spyder can deliver some exceptional changes and change the whole nature of the ride.
Tom
I have a stock SE5, the only add-on I have is the trunk spring. I am a small guy, 145#s. The shocks are set as I got them, on setting 3. I ride with firm tires. I ride alone, which, if you knew me, you would understand.
I had read about others bumping up their shocks and loving the ride and handling. I was planning on testing that out by doing the same. Now, I am going to go the other way - bump them down.
As I said, the ride home was so smooth, roads and intersections where the pavement is rough, the Spyder just floated over it. Usually I get up on the pegs and my butt 4 to 6"s off the seat and let my knees take the shocks. Even then, the seat sometimes smacks my behind. If I try to sit out the bumps in the road, it is like I am going down a set of stairs on my butt.
Actually, I enjoy feeling the road and getting up on the pegs - I consider this real riding, whether on a Spyder or a horse. But, yesterdays experience has me thinking a little more "smooooth" would be nice. So we will see.
Bottom line; it is nice to tweak some of the things on the Spyder. We all adjust to how things are when we first experience them, like Ron and some of the others finally discovering that they didn't have power steering. But, as St. Lamont has shown us, you can change anything. (though I am still not sold on the idea of the DooTrailer). Adjusting some of the easy things on the Spyder can deliver some exceptional changes and change the whole nature of the ride.
Tom
