Spyder Wandering

[gazey]

I had never riden a Spyder when I traveled from Hobart to Sydney to pick one up. I got the thing and statred the 1400km ride home. I gotta say the first 100 or so km out of Sydney in peak hour traffic scared the :cus: out of me. Finaly got on the open road and that scared the :cus: out of me even more :yikes:.
I have riden bikes and four wheelers for years but the spyder was like nothing I had ridden before. It seemed to wander and pull all over the place. Going around corners was not much fun at all .

But by the time I got home and started to RELAX, it was whole lot better.
Now after riding every day for the past two months I think its by far the best ride Iv had.:2thumbs:

Like most people here have said, relax your grip and let the :spyder: go.

 

[Emerald Spyder]

I live in Central Qld so I very rarely see a road which doesn't have distortions etc. I picked up my Spyder in Sept last year and although I have enjoyed riding it, I was very rarely relaxed in riding it, it was always hard work, I know the suggestions of relaxing but that is hard to do when the spyder is moving all over the road.

My spyder was heavy in the steering, followed EVERY grove or distortion in the road. I read somewhere that the spyders come out of the factory with a toe in setting on the steering and this aids their handling but can make them tend to be twitchy and follow distortions.

The other weekend I was mucking around in the workshop, so I decided to play with the steering alignment, I undid the lock nuts on the steering rods and shortened them half a turn each, which effectively gave me more toe out. I took the spyder for a ride, it is bloody brilliant, doesn't follow the distortions at all, is far far far lighter in the steering, it is great. I liken it to driving an old ute (pick up for you yanks) and then jumping in a Ferrari, the difference was that significant.:2excited::clap::clap::2thumbs:
Give it a try, if it doesn't help it is only a ten minute job to replace it to its previous setting. Like I said it is so much better to ride I have put more miles on it in the last 3 weeks than I did in the last 3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!:clap::clap::clap::clap::2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs::clap::clap::clap::clap:

 

[Questions]

Toe In Tow Out?

Do we have any other Spyder owners who have done "Toe" adjustments? I have relaxed my grip, and checked the air pressure and made the change (was 30psi), and I am sure I will get use to the wandering. But if the toe adjustment is a fix, I am willing to try it. Any other input on this?:helpsmilie:

 

[bjt]

Do we have any other Spyder owners who have done "Toe" adjustments? I have relaxed my grip, and checked the air pressure and made the change (was 30psi), and I am sure I will get use to the wandering. But if the toe adjustment is a fix, I am willing to try it. Any other input on this?:helpsmilie:

According to this link, I'm not sure that increasing toe out helps. :dontknow:

http://www.ozebiz.com.au/racetech/theory/align.html

 

[Emerald Spyder]

I'm not sure that I increased the Toe out, or that I even have toe out now, what I did was reduce the toe in. The feathering on my tyres indicated excessive toe in.

 

[barb36jack31]

Black Widow's posting was right on. When the road drops off the front wheel on that side will drop also. This will case the Spyder to dip in that direction. When the road levels off again, the bike will come back also and all is well. Just relax and let the bike take care of itself. I will admit, however, that the pucker factor picks up sharply until you get used to it all.