Unusual Questions You've Been Asked About Your Spyder?

[Deanna777]

A lady asked me this question today " Can you ride this on the road" I said yes you can.


She was mentioned the ATV's, you can ride those everywhere but on the road. She also asked "How much does it cost"?

Deanna

 

[Conaso]

I guess I better start a list of responses when I finally buy one...

Is it electric? No, it's a "Roll-Back" Car. The Spyder is powered by a spring in the real-wheel that is wound when the vehicle is pushed backwards. Our Can-Am Club members help each other during the week to get them ready for weekend rides.

How do you steer it? The rear wheel or disk is mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin.:dontknow:

 

[Bob Denman]

Many times these questions come about because somebody is curious, but has no idea what to ask... :dontknow:
It's better to humor them, and file the questions away, for when this thread pops back up. :thumbup:

"Does the rear wheel do the steering?"

"Yes it does. Now excuse me; I've got to get back to the loading docks with this forklift. My lunch break is over." :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[BoilerAnimal]

I guess I better start a list of responses when I finally buy one...

Is it electric? No, it's a "Roll-Back" Car. The Spyder is powered by a spring in the real-wheel that is wound when the vehicle is pushed backwards. Our Can-Am Club members help each other during the week to get them ready for weekend rides.

How do you steer it? The rear wheel or disk is mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin.:dontknow:

You work for the government?:roflblack:

 

[geoshmo]

When I get asked what it costs I always answer that I got mine for 48 "easy" payments.

 

[Bob Denman]

"Where did you get it?" :dontknow:

"Well; these things were sitting around in a dealership parking lot that was right near where I escaped..."

 

[pegasus1300]

How do you steer it? The rear wheel or disk is mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin.:dontknow:

I LIKE that one. You could use that for a lot of things. It would be so much fun to watch their eyes glaze over about half way through

 

[Colin]

One of my favourites was a guy who spent about 5 minutes telling me about the company he worked for that made drive belts for Motorcycles etc... telling me how they were made...... then we talked about the belt on my Spyder and a few other things on my Spyder, and then the question was, "is it front wheel drive?" I had to put my helmet on and ride away.

 

[SteveP]

Yepn

Be careful....dumb people travels in pairs! hehehehehe

He seemed to be beside himself...

 

[dsvogel]

Training Wheels

I will often tell people that I'm learning to ride and "I needed one with training wheels ... and hope to get them off in a few weeks". That gets them looking at me, looking at the bike, and then busting out laughing when they see my smirk. Like someone said earlier, the questions are not as frequent as they used to be a few years ago.

 

[Big Mac]

My wife gets asked loads of questions about her Spyder, as they are quite rare here in the UK. Her favourite so far is: "how do you get it on the centre-stand?"!

To save answering the same questions over and over, I made her a poster with the most popular Q&A's on it — she sits it in her windscreen whenever she parks. Here's how it looks:



Here's where it sits conveniently behind the windscreen:

 

[Bob Denman]

:clap: But I think that her smile will answer the most important question. :2thumbs:

 

[Allensr]

on a long trip

This past month I was going from Austin to NY and back when someone, at a fill up, asked me could I ride it a long distance. When I told them about my trip they were surprised. I'm not sure what they were thinking.

 

[ARtraveler]

They always ask the obvious questions.

Does that thing have wheels? Is the engine up front? Is the seat big enough for a passenger?

Here's your sign. :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[vampyregirl]

Had to put more go-go juice in mine on the way to work this morning. I got asked "how do you steer that thing?????". Sigh..... If I hadn't been so annoyed that I had to get gas in the first place, I would have said "Uh, I use the handlebars". I was polite and told the guy it was like riding a 4 wheeler.

 

[swodo]

Is that a motorcycle? Yep

Does it have a throttle lever? Nope

 

[sandeejs]

Most of the Above and:

"Can anyone buy one of those?
(Maybe they thought it was a special item only for the handicapped?)
~Sandee~

 

[Synthetic]

"Do you like it?" Followed by "Is it fun?"

 

[spydaman60]

I ride with Lamonts IPS most of the time. Had one guy look at it and said, these things have steering dampeners? I looked at him and said, sure do!:roflblack::roflblack:

 

[MisterP]

A woman asked me if mine was a Star Wars special edition, because it looked just like a storm trooper.