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When and where was the first time you rode a Can-Am tryke ??
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Fatcycledaddy
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In 2015 I rented an RTL for a day just to try it out.
I had hit oil on an exit ramp in the rain a couple of years before on the 1991 Yamaha Venture Royal towing a camper trailer and ended up hitting the bumper of the car in front of me just hard enough to lay it down. Broke of the anti dive on the right side of the fork and drained the oil out. I did some temp. repairs on the bike and rode it from Lake George back to MI. Getting older I thought that the SPyder was Intriguing.
I found a dealer who rented them and after a couple of rounds in the parking lot I was off to the races for the 60 mile ride home. The first 50 miles I was all over the road, I was thinking that nobody in their right mind would want one of these things. Then I started to relax a little and it got MUCH better. By the end of the day I was sold on it.
Purchased a 2015 RTL just a few months later. I took my son to O'Hare airport to fly out on a mission trip, stopped at ImotorSports to look at a yellow RTL and rode it home 3 days later.
Hit a deer with that one at about 55 to 60 mph, it had about 45,000 miles on it. Repairs were going to take months, so I purchased a 2020 RTL and sold the 2015 after it was repaired. 2020 now has about 17,000 miles on it and we love it.
Still have a 1989 Yamaha Venture Royal, one of the three that I have owned, but I never ride it. The Spyder is the bike of choice for me.
I had hit oil on an exit ramp in the rain a couple of years before on the 1991 Yamaha Venture Royal towing a camper trailer and ended up hitting the bumper of the car in front of me just hard enough to lay it down. Broke of the anti dive on the right side of the fork and drained the oil out. I did some temp. repairs on the bike and rode it from Lake George back to MI. Getting older I thought that the SPyder was Intriguing.
I found a dealer who rented them and after a couple of rounds in the parking lot I was off to the races for the 60 mile ride home. The first 50 miles I was all over the road, I was thinking that nobody in their right mind would want one of these things. Then I started to relax a little and it got MUCH better. By the end of the day I was sold on it.
Purchased a 2015 RTL just a few months later. I took my son to O'Hare airport to fly out on a mission trip, stopped at ImotorSports to look at a yellow RTL and rode it home 3 days later.
Hit a deer with that one at about 55 to 60 mph, it had about 45,000 miles on it. Repairs were going to take months, so I purchased a 2020 RTL and sold the 2015 after it was repaired. 2020 now has about 17,000 miles on it and we love it.
Still have a 1989 Yamaha Venture Royal, one of the three that I have owned, but I never ride it. The Spyder is the bike of choice for me.
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K80Shooter
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Early December 2020. I knew that I wanted a RT Ltd. and took the BRP sponsored course so that I could easily get my endorsement, I had nothing better to do so what the heck.
For me the course was a blast as I have been riding 4 wheelers for many years.
I had my license endorsement and purchased my RT Ltd on Dec. 30th 2020
For me the course was a blast as I have been riding 4 wheelers for many years.
I had my license endorsement and purchased my RT Ltd on Dec. 30th 2020
Like several others here, I never drove one until I bought it. Drove around the dealers lot 3-4 times to get a feeling for the handling and headed out. After 4-5 miles on city streets got on the Interstate and headed home. No problems. I think riding snowmobiles in another life helped. I find the steering much easier on my old shoulders than the Hannigan trike was.
JohnRuckus
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Can-am 3 Wheel Class in 2020. Gwen came home to me a few months later 
JohnRuckus
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Great post @PeaceKeeper6.
Thanks
Thanks
Quickdraw
Member
I was looking at Harley trikes but didn't want to spend $35K. While looking at videos on youtube, I saw one for the 2020 spyder rt. I got to looking at them on the brp site. So, I showed the wife, and she was like, that's nice. In looking at the site some more, I found the Ryker, which I found out was automatic. So, I showed the wife that one and told her it's an automatic. THAT got her attention. She wanted to go to the dealer the next day (a Saturday). So, we go there, and they have a Ryker on display. She sits on it and loves it. We get home and we're in the pool, and she's got that look on her face. She says, "you know, I've been going over the numbers...". The next day we buy both the RT and the Ryker Rally. Bought both in August of '20 but mine is a '21.
BlueStar2Mom
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I rode my first Spyder about 6 weeks ago - are you ready for this? At our local Harley dealership! Husband and I went there as I wanted to check out trikes (have been having a real confidence issue with 2-wheeled bikes). I'd already been through the MSF course, and have my endorsement. Short-fingered hands, a few hand surgeries, and a very weak left collarbone, tried more than one "regular bike" even with adjustable levers, and just couldn't get comfortable about keeping the weight upright. Long story short, an absolutely WONDERFUL very young salesman (him 21, me 66) asked if I'd been on a Spyder. He told me I REALLY needed to try it. They had an RT there they'd gotten on trade, and he told me with my shoulder problems I was still going to have issues turning a regular trike in slow speed scenarios. So, I tried it, and I suspected before I got on it that my self-confidence issue was going to be GONE! Kiddo was right! I loved it, and I could finally ride with my husband without the back of his helmet being my only view! That particular bike wasn't what I finally settled on - I liked the ride position of the F3 better, I discovered. Found mine just outside Oklahoma City, wasn't quite up to dealing with interstate traffic at that point, so my husband rode it the 290 miles home while I followed in the car, with the two fur babies who went on the car trip with us. Poor guy - it was 106 degrees the day we got there to pick it up, and was forecast for the same the next day. We left EARLY and he still had a hot ride home! (Yup, he loves me!) We've been out for a number of morning rides since it came home. My closest school for a 3-wheel course is not currently doing classes, unfortunately. Taking my time, we have lots of rides we can do without a whole lot of traffic, and I'm having a blast!
IdahoMtnSpyder
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In 2013 I was planning on converting my Goldwing to a trike by buying a wrecked trike and taking the conversion off of it. I estimated it would cost me around $24,000 total including the market value of my 'Wing. I decided I would be better off to buy a Spyder which was designed from the ground up to be 3 wheels and thousands of dollars cheaper. My nephew had bought one of the first Spyders in Idaho, a 2008 GS so I was passingly familiar with the Spyder. In 2013 he bought a 2010 RT but still had the GS. I asked to take a ride on his 2010 so we went for about a 20 mile ride, he on the GS and me on the RT. I knew right then the RT was the right trike for me so I started scouring Craigslist. I bought a 2013 RT from a Cadillac salesman in Fond du Lac, WI in November, 2013. Took my first real ride on it about March 2014.
Partzman23
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My first ryde on a Spyder
My first ryde on a Can Am Spyder was when I test rode mine at a dealership in Illinois. That was in July 2020. I had went there to purchase a motorcycle but seen the Spyders and ask the sales man about them . He told me he had a one owner 17 RTL in the warehouse he could get me on for the same money I was going to spend on the motorcycle.
The wife and I took it for a test ride and I was hooked. Rode it home that evening, 2hr ryde home on backroads and interstate for my first experience on a Spyder.
The rest is history. The wife and I both love it and don't regret the decision at all. I am sure there will be a new Spyder in my future if I ever get tired of this one.
My first ryde on a Can Am Spyder was when I test rode mine at a dealership in Illinois. That was in July 2020. I had went there to purchase a motorcycle but seen the Spyders and ask the sales man about them . He told me he had a one owner 17 RTL in the warehouse he could get me on for the same money I was going to spend on the motorcycle.
The wife and I took it for a test ride and I was hooked. Rode it home that evening, 2hr ryde home on backroads and interstate for my first experience on a Spyder.
The rest is history. The wife and I both love it and don't regret the decision at all. I am sure there will be a new Spyder in my future if I ever get tired of this one.
First ride was after flying 1500 miles to pick my newly purchased used RT from an individual. After the first day on the road back home, I called the SO and told her " I'm selling this damn thing as soon as I get home, If I get home."
50+ years of two wheeled riding and several decades of Goldwings left me with muscle memory that was downright dangerous on the trip back. I had no real understanding of how to ride a Spyder starting out on the long drive back.
But after several more days on the road I learned to manage the machine and got it (and me) home safely. Now I'm enjoying it and it's a keeper....but don't do what I did.
50+ years of two wheeled riding and several decades of Goldwings left me with muscle memory that was downright dangerous on the trip back. I had no real understanding of how to ride a Spyder starting out on the long drive back.
But after several more days on the road I learned to manage the machine and got it (and me) home safely. Now I'm enjoying it and it's a keeper....but don't do what I did.
IdahoMtnSpyder
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Spyders aren't the only trike that takes getting used to. The director of our local GWRRA chapter, which now is no more, told of a couple of guys who bought 'wing trikes. The dealer urged them to spend time in the parking lot to get the hang of them. They bragged about how experienced and good riders they were and didn't any stinkin' parking lot training! One of them promptly missed a bridge over a canal and put the trike into the canal, and the other ran into the side of a building.
RideOn
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After a high side totalled my trusty RoadKing in 2017, I spent about a year recovering and trying to overcome the loss of equilibrium that resulted from the accident. It was apparent that a three-wheeler was a better choice for me, but I wasn't sure what to try; I only knew I wanted to get back in the wind.
In May 2019, I happened to see a classified ad in the local paper for a 2014 Spyder ST, so I made arrangements with the owner and went to check it out. My first ride was only a few miles down-and-back from the owner's home on a two-lane road with a high crown. The ST seemed to handle a little squirrely, but I figured a lot of that was the road surface, not the ST. I liked it enough to buy it. It had only 2000 miles and the price was right.
I rode the ST for about a year. There are some things I still like better about it, particularly the 998 engine being so lively and ready to rev. But ultimately it seemed to lack comfort, storage and the capacity to ride for a longer distance, so I traded it in 2020 for a new 2019 RT Limited from iMotorsports. That's still mine and I expect to keep it a long time. I personally prefer the 2019 to the 2022 RT, which I rode on a demo earlier this year.
I do sometimes miss the Harleys that I rode for more than 30 years, but HD trikes just aren't my cuppa tea. The Spyder is a better trike in just about every way, so I've made peace with the switch.
Bob
In May 2019, I happened to see a classified ad in the local paper for a 2014 Spyder ST, so I made arrangements with the owner and went to check it out. My first ride was only a few miles down-and-back from the owner's home on a two-lane road with a high crown. The ST seemed to handle a little squirrely, but I figured a lot of that was the road surface, not the ST. I liked it enough to buy it. It had only 2000 miles and the price was right.
I rode the ST for about a year. There are some things I still like better about it, particularly the 998 engine being so lively and ready to rev. But ultimately it seemed to lack comfort, storage and the capacity to ride for a longer distance, so I traded it in 2020 for a new 2019 RT Limited from iMotorsports. That's still mine and I expect to keep it a long time. I personally prefer the 2019 to the 2022 RT, which I rode on a demo earlier this year.
I do sometimes miss the Harleys that I rode for more than 30 years, but HD trikes just aren't my cuppa tea. The Spyder is a better trike in just about every way, so I've made peace with the switch.
Bob
Motorcycledave
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Did you keep the VMax ????
PistonBlown
Active member
Ten years ago after I bought an RS. This photo was taken about two hours later after a ride to the ferry to take us back to the south island.
Had it nine years and it was still going strong:
Ended it trading it when I got a F3L but kind of wish I'd kept it, and bought the F3L as well of course
Had it nine years and it was still going strong:
Ended it trading it when I got a F3L but kind of wish I'd kept it, and bought the F3L as well of course
Yabbadabbadoo
Member
I ordered my 2020 F3S SS without ever having tried one. I'm a snowmobile guy so I just knew I would enjoy it. The 3 wheel class was originally scheduled for the month before delivery. But that was March of 2020 - right when everything was shut down because of Covid. The class got delayed a couple of months. So the bike came in toward the end of April and there was no way I was going to wait for the class. First ryde was when I took delivery of it at my dealer. Drove it in circles in their parking lot to get used to the brake function and then drove it home - but I only live two miles away from the dealer. I loved it immediately. Drove it unlicensed for a couple of months until I could take the class and get legal.
Lew L
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Well Dave I'll assume ( I hate to do that) you're talking about my poor, old, slow 98 V-Max. YES, I kept the Max, modded it some and still love the kick it gives when the V-Boost opens in the lower 3 gears. Best be pointed exactly where you want to go though.
Lew L
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