Reliability

[dndfindley]

Apparently, you're happy with yourself and your selection. I'm sure this forum, http://fj-09.org/, will appreciate your humor and support.

See you on the road - I'll be riding a white "John Deere".

Wayne

Your back handed attempt at humor was kinda lame but thanks for the link to the FJ-09 forum. However I have been a member of that forum since December when I purchased the FJ-09. Know what else? A person can actually be a member of more than one forum at a time. I know you wish I would leave this one but I'm not, at least not yet. There are several other regulars here who no longer ride Spyders but continue to socialize. That is what I am doing as well.

 

[Bob Denman]

I for one; am glad that you've stuck around... :thumbup:

 

[dndfindley]

I for one; am glad that you've stuck around... :thumbup:

Thank you Bob.

 

[Bob Denman]

After all; we've got to keep SOMEBODY around that we can pick on!! :roflblack::roflblack: :joke: :thumbup:

 

[MikeinGA]

Please read

Hmm one picture is worth a thousand words

Consumer Reports has always been is a good at getting the best data on a product. It looks like fair report. I'm one of the 42% and I think it's a good number.
Mike

Update!!! April 11/ 2015 my rear shock blew out with only 17,500 mile on my 2011 RS-S SE5 and the Spyder bounce around on the highway. I have already replace my front shocks at 10,000 miles. I pulled my maintenance records and review them. It looks like my Spyder needs to be repaired about every 3,000 miles due to a substandard parts. So! That 42% is low number. Oh yes shocks like other parts I had to replace are not covered under warranty. So! You think BRP cares. That IMHO.

Mike

 

[XB12X]

The last post was over four years ago. Is the situation better now? I want to buy one.

 

[Pantera]

The last post was over four years ago. Is the situation better now? I want to buy one.

Let us hope that things are better now.I just purchased a 2021 Ryker 900

 

[ButterSmooth]

2020RT with 10,000 since September 2020. One trip back to the dealer for failed fuel sending unit -- not a game stopper at all. Like any machine (especially with computers involved), there are a few wrinkles and annoyances.

 

[cruisinTX]

I guess I should count myself lucky then. I have owned 8 BMWs and logged over 420K miles on them since 1977. 375K+ of those miles have been since April of 2000 when I returned from a 20 year hiatus from riding. I have also logged just little over 9K on my wife's Spyder RT since purchase in Oct. 2017 & have not had to take any of them to a shop for repairs. One of the BMWs I chose to take to the shop because it was still under warranty, but it was just for routine maintenance as have been all of the repairs I have made on all of the bikes since beginning riding in 1968 with the exception of replacing a final drive bearing on the '00 R1200C at ~113K miles. But hey, no machine has parts that last forever and I did that work myself in about 3 hours.

I think charts like this can be very misleading because they do not account for:
accumulated mileage
average age of riders
financial ability to afford shop fees per typical brand owners
mechanical knowledge of typical owners
normal riding style associated with each brand

and probably a lot of other factors. In short, the chart is useless information due to lack of mention or consideration of confounding variables.

 

[Mikey]

ldpost: New bikes, new problems, but we all hope to not have any!!!! RIGHT!!hyea::cheers: Ride more worry less!

 

[cruisinTX]

Old post or not, the information of the chart is still useless and the responses to it are still valid.

 

[Mikey]

Old post or not, the information of the chart is still useless and the responses to it are still valid.

:bowdown: Sorry

 

[cruisinTX]

no need to be sorry, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

 

[ARtraveler]

The OP has not been on the site since 2017. This thread was considered argumentative then, and I consider it heading south again.

Going to solve the issue by closing the thread.