Can Am Spyder

[RedFZ6]

I test ride the spyder last year and I could not stand being in this trike more than 15 minutes, it's heavy, slow, very odd to turn and the first weird thing that I noticed that it did not have brake lever for the front brake but it has a linked brake system.
There is a guy who bought a Yamaha Raptor with R1 engine, and it's street legal
new boy ... just bought R1 quad.. - Raptor Forums: Yamaha Raptor Forums

Take this quad to a drag strip and have fun

 

[FZ1inNH]

If it's going to be more that two wheels, it's GOT to lean!

Go Yamaha! The Tesseract would be my clear cut winner for the street.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNrJOrfqA-E]YouTube - Yamaha's New Vehicle: Tesseract : DigInfo[/ame]

 

[Wh0M3]

If it's going to be more that two wheels, it's GOT to lean!

Go Yamaha! The Tesseract would be my clear cut winner for the street.

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That is sweet looking, I'd love to try it and if it took off it could really change how cars are buit in the future.

I've wondered about the 4wheeler thing and wondered if they were around back when road laws were made if they would have been grandfathered in. I've also wondered if Motorcycles were a "new" idea if they would have not been street legal.

 

[Debaser]

For those interested Quads are not street legal. 1,2, or 3 tires makes it a motorcycle, legally speaking. 4 or more tires mean it is a car/truck. That would mean seatbelts and airbags and bumpers and headrests etc.

Perhaps not in Sacramento CA USA, but in many (most?) places Quad's are street legal. T'is an international forum .

 

[Ridgeback]

Perhaps not in Sacramento CA USA, but in many (most?) places Quad's are street legal. T'is an international forum .

We can buy them straight from the showroom,ready to ride away on.
Plenty of cool one's like the 700R Raptor :thumbup:

 

[Kazza]

If it's going to be more that two wheels, it's GOT to lean!

Go Yamaha! The Tesseract would be my clear cut winner for the street.

YouTube - Yamaha's New Vehicle: Tesseract : DigInfo

Why would they make that thing? Why?

 

[Kazza]

Perhaps not in Sacramento CA USA, but in many (most?) places Quad's are street legal. T'is an international forum .

Quads aren't street legal in Oz.

 

[Ridgeback]

Why would they make that thing? Why?

They made it look like a Transformer,So I reckon it's a boys toys thing Karen

 

[Kazza]

They made it look like a Transformer,So I reckon it's a boys toys thing Karen

You're probably right.

I love quads though - I have a Yamaha 450 Kodiak - would love a Raptor

 

[jrevans]

Sort of related....

Right after the Spyder came out, I saw my first one when I was sitting in my truck in a parking lot. I kid you not, the guy riding this thing had to be about 400+ pounds. I mean he was huge. It was such an odd sight to see this massively overweight guy on such an odd machine that I whipped out my camera and took a picture.

It would probably take me a while to find that picture though....

 

[Ridgeback]

Sort of related....

Right after the Spyder came out, I saw my first one when I was sitting in my truck in a parking lot. I kid you not, the guy riding this thing had to be about 400+ pounds. I mean he was huge. It was such an odd sight to see this massively overweight guy on such an odd machine that I whipped out my camera and took a picture.

It's not just quads and the like......

 

[bucktown]

That's not right:ban:

 

[Mancolt]

Ridgeback...that's HILARIOUS!:rockon:

That bike looks so ridiculously small it's amusing. Sometimes that's what I feel like on my friend's R6, but I'm nowhere near that heavy so I know it's just my imagination!

 

[jrevans]

Sort of related....

Right after the Spyder came out, I saw my first one when I was sitting in my truck in a parking lot. I kid you not, the guy riding this thing had to be about 400+ pounds. I mean he was huge. It was such an odd sight to see this massively overweight guy on such an odd machine that I whipped out my camera and took a picture.

It's not just quads and the like......

Ha! That's what I call "setting the sag" of the suspension!

 

[kyle]

Holy Hell! Aside from the guy being heavy, he's way too big for that thing. His damn toes are about to touch the ground. Trevans, you do realize you have to find that pic now?

 

[jstoof]

This is what you need instead Its a fourwheeler with a subaru sti engine i love the sound of the turbo on it:rockon:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe_mS_ucYCM]YouTube - ATV Subaru Impreza STI[/ame]

 

[texcollect]

I took a Spyder out on Saturday for a demo ride. It was the Semi-Auto 5 speed RT versions. I must admit I was looking forward to this my other ride is a Catrike (Catrike Performance Trikes). My buddy and I road out to a place called Fayetteville for lunch on our bikes (He rides an FZ6R) and then stopped by the Can-Am Dealer on the way home.

Unfortunately the route they had laid out for us was only about 10 miles long, of which most of it was residential and most of the remaining mileage was the feeder road of Interstate 10. I am sure the rotax engine is a fine piece of equipment, but after the Yamaha 4 in my FZ6 is sounded and felt almost agricultural. It is supposed to have power steering, but it steered like a tank. It was fun playing with the semi-automatic gearbox, but I'll be sticking to the FZ6 for the foreseeable future.

 

[ice]

Subaru

Not trying ti hijack this thread but, that Subaru ATV is cool.
All it needs is a roll bar.

The Spiders are sold close to me.
I think they would be great for mountain camping trips two up or for handicap persons.

 

[Wavex]

Re: Subaru

I'd never buy one, but Cali Rider and I are trying to find some time to rent one for the day and go down some twisty roads with it to see what it's got... anything with wheels is fun down a twisty road... the questions is how much fun? My guess is less fun than the bike, but more fun than the car (even though the RSX is damn fun...)... to be confirmed asap