[mishapman]

I've always been interested in motorcycles. However, given my numerous bicycle accidents, a few I can't remember, I never got a motorcycle for safety reasons. If I can't handle a leg powered, 25 pound, two wheeler, there is great danger in a two wheeler with great mass and great velocity.

The design of the Spyder greatly mitigates that risk. That it looks sweet is an added bonus.

[helliott]

I just took delivery of my "new" 2009 RS, yesterday. I bought it after having sold my "last" motorcyle 8 months ago, But, I missed the fun of riding. With the semi-auto transmission, I can baby my 75-year-old arthritic hands and still have fun. I enjoy a little attention, so that won't hurt, either.

Hall Elliott

[budvoss]

I bought one cause of the two wheels in front. I know sounds crazy but i love the two wheels up front. I love every thing about the bike. Now I want more power, yea more power

[Gary Who]

To tell you the truth, the first time I saw a Spyder, I didn't like it. I said to myself you want catch me on one of those things. And I express my opinion to my others biker friends. Well my opinion changed at bike week at Myrtle Beach S.C..Where Can-Am had a vender setup. There is where I got a closer look and more information. Also I got to set on a RT-S, then it was love at first setting that lasted. At that time I had a Yamaha V-Star 1100. About 4 months ago I desided to buy a new bike. The love afair was still there more so because of what all I have read on line. Well I sold my V-Star to my son and purshased me a Blue RT-S&C RM5 and I still love it. Have not that much ridding time yet and still a little rought in the curves.But that is get better ever time I ride it. Another thing I'm glad about is that BRP came out with it. Because if Harley had it's name on it,it would be a $40,000.00 bike.

This post has been edited by Gary Who: 26 December 2010 - 05:10 PM

[Spur]

My wife saw a Spyder and had to have one. She is thrilled with her RS SE5. I'm 64. My rides are a BMW R1200GS and a Suzuki Hayabusa....and I dearly love them both, but a disgusting thing has happened. I catch myself jumping on her Spyder for all kinds of erands. I've started kinda liking it. It started when we took the Spyder and the Beemer fire roading. As I worked my &#@ off powering through ocassional deep sand streches and getting dumped hard into a berm, she motored happily along. A simple goose and she would fly over the sand with a nice rooster out the back. I'm thinking about getting my own and rigging it for dirt. It must be like finding out you are gay, not that here is anything wrong with that either.
I mean what if my friends see me on the thing.
Confused and frightened

[rogerb]

When you first get a new vehicle you kinda like showing it off, but that goes away. Now I really like to show it off when my grandaughter is on with me. She's seven and calls herself the Biker Princess. That's my reason for showing off but the bike helps too.

[challman]

Marc, on 05 April 2010 - 03:09 PM, said:

I didn't vote because my answers didn't fit the options well. I do enjoy being a little "one off". I don't buy something because it's the most popular and if everyone else has one then I am less likely to want it. With that said, I am not an attention seeker necessarily. I don't shy away from it and I enjoy talking with lots of different people, thus the websites, but my favorite rides are usually with a friend, my wife or son out to a destination (usually good food) and back. I would rather take the backway and take longer than pound the interstates and get somewhere fast. I like taking in the scenery and I don't mind stopping to shoot the breeze along the way.

At the end of the day, I like the Spyder because of its performance, safety and "fun factor". The Rock Star kind of thing adds to the "fun factor" I guess, but it's only part of it. There are days I leave my helmet on while pumping gas because I don't feel like giving the entire speech. Other days, I'll stop and talk to strangers for 30 minutes just because they are intrigued by the Spyder.

Did I answer your question or am I just rambling

I also didn't vote for the same reasons. I got mine because I had major surgery and I really wasn't sure I would ever be able to ride a big bike again. (turns out I was wrong) But I now would never go back to a bike if given a choice.

[RGVSpyderGirl]

I got my Spyder because I'm a small 70 year old female and after riding Harley's as a passenger, I got tired of 'looking for a ride' so I made the leap and got my own! I had tried to ride a Harley trike but I wasn't strong enough to turn it. I can ride my Spyder with ease and the fact that it gets a lot of attention is a bonus.

[Wheelgunner]

At 57 I never had, or been on, a motorcycle.
I could not get my wife to ride a motorcycle. (Even w/friends she trusted.)
SHE saw the Spyder on the internet and fell in love with it. Two weeks later, we had a silver 2010 RT SE5.
She said she was too old to have a midlife crisis, so this was the first thing on her bucket list.
(I didn't fight her on this one!)

[Baytown]

My wife wouldn't let me buy another BMW K1300! I had to buy something she could ride. I do enjoy the Spyder but I'm still after a normal large road bike.

[lady spyder]

I've been riding two wheel motorcycles for 40+ years and have my Euopean Motorcycle License as well as my US license. At 5 foot tall and riding Harley's (5 since 1990) for the last 20 years I've had two serious accidents the last one when a deer ran into me (no I didn't hit the deer) and bowled me off my bike in Montana. At age 71 I still like the wind around me but was no longer comfortable on two wheels. Our son had purchased a 2010 Can Am Spyder RT and after riding on it, I was sold on the comfort and its ability to carry luggage for long distance traveling. I now have my 2011 Can AM Spyder RT-S and I do love the bright red. My husband of 50 years still rides his Harley Touring bike (he's a motorcycle safety instructor)and will probably always be on two wheels.

[LoneSpyderRyder]

I enjoyed the first couple of group rydes I took but now I ryde alone. I love talking to people about the Spyder. I have had some real problems with BRP and have found it very hard to find a honest dealer but their Spyder design is a real winner. I believe that the Spyder is a real step forward in the open air mode of transportation. If the economy had not tanked when it did the BRP would not have been able to keep up with the demand.
I can’t wait to see the next major company who produces the next “reverse trike”.

[Bobj21]

I voted, but the options really did not fit my reasons for buying a Spyder. I have a balance problem but still want to ride. The spyder is the best option for me. As far as getting attention, that did not factor in to the decision. It's the ride not the attention that I crave. There is never enough time to ride, so I really don't want to waste time answering questions when I could be riding.

[SpyderDon65]

I think that the follow-up comments do a better job of expaining why we bought the Spyder than the poll questions. I too didn't buy it for the 'flash'; it was just inherent to the machine. But both my wife and I love the show-and-tell sessions we have with bikers and nons. I love putting their kids on and letting them have their pictures taken in the driver's seat. I once was asked very politely by a very senior asian tourist from a bus tour group if it was OK for him to take a photo of my Spyder with trailer. After he took his shot, I had him get on and took his picture. The smile is what maxes out your pride in your ride. It is one thing to love your ride but it takes it to a whole new level when so many other varied individuals do as well. It is a 'happy machine'.

[800steve]

Last bike was Yamaha FZ1. great bike, but having a knee replacment that did not go so well forced sale of 2 wheeler. This RS with hand brake and floorboards really fits me great. Plus the wife can drive it also.