My Thoughts on the 2025 RTL

[vito1943]

Yesterday I had the chance to ride a 2025 Spyder RTL as a "loaner" while my bike was being worked on. My general opinion is that I like the changes made from what I have with my 2021 RT, but not enough to trade up to a new one at a cost of several thousand dollars at least. The main thing I liked is the much larger LCD screen and the data displayed. I especially like the large digital display of what gear I am in. Some of the display, however, seems less than useful, like the "Duration" measure showing how many hours the current trip was taking. I also like the simpler process of enabling the Reverse gear and then returning to the forward gears. The start up process seemed a bit strange, but not a problem.

Another thing that I liked is that Can Am has seemed to have solved the "whining" noise that my RT gets when between about 45 and 50 mph. Its not a big deal but it is annoying on my RT, and I did not notice this sound on the 2025 that I was riding. And it might have been my imagination but the seat on the 2025 felt more comfortable than the stock seat on my 2021. I use a BeadRider seat cover on my bike, which I am very happy with, but the seat on the 2025 felt that I would not need any sort of seat cover at all.

So overall, I like the 2025, but it is not enough improved over my 2021 for me to justify buying the newer bike, at least right now.

 

[Jetfixer]

I traded in my 2020 RTL for a 2025 S2S due to entering retirement and having over 60000 trouble free miles on my 2020. So far, the S2S is just as dependable and the improvements are just that, improvements. Nothing earth shattering. Some major surprises though, were needing to buy another trailer hitch since they changed the wiring again. Also, the worst thing for me so far has been that I cannot use my F3 Attitude handlebars on the '25 since they made a major change to the shape of the bar ends starting in 2024. Hoping they will reissue the Attitude bars soon...

 

[jzeiler]

You will be surprised to know the only thing they did different was to discontinue routing 12 volts to the rear of the bike for your trailer lighting adapter. All you needed to do was run one wire from the CIC connector to the rear of the bike.

 

[Dansy]

I installed the adapter with the new hitch (2024 S2S) same problems, but frankly it would be easy to just tap the correct wire… (orange) for power use a voltmeter