The Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) Spyder is a fine piece of mechanized eye-candy that could just as easily have arrived from the future as Quebec. To some of you, it might look like a giant backwards-flying tricycle. Or if you're like me, you see an open roadster's front workings surgically grafted onto the ass of an Italian sportbike, all wrapped up nice and pretty in snowmobile-esque bodywork. These disparate elements are forced by some excellent science to work together in the same system, as though the idea was pipelined straight down Jacob's Ladder from Dr. Frankenstein's frontal lobe. In other words, it's fuggin' cool.
The Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) Spyder is a fine piece of mechanized eye-candy that could just as easily have arrived from the future as Quebec.
Little known fact: Quebec is the future. It's not an actual place; it's a wormhole in the time-space continuum.
In our business class we had a guy from the Spyder marketing team come talk to us about the product and their strategies. Fun product but expensive, even the guy admitted it.
I remember reading about this in Cycle Canada about 3 or 4 years ago and waiting for it ever since. Does it require a motorcycle license or just a regular class license?
I remember reading about this in Cycle Canada about 3 or 4 years ago and waiting for it ever since. Does it require a motorcycle license or just a regular class license?
From an e-mail conversation with the Can-Am PR lady a few months back:
"Spyder is classified as a roadster so all motorcycle law’s apply, including the need for a proper motorcycle endorsement to ride in NY and NJ. The only three states in which this does not apply to is Deleware, California and South Carolina. (At 0-60 in 4.5 seconds this thing should really be classified as a sports car!!)"
that "bike" looks goofy as hell, but the photography on this piece is absolutely stunning!
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Friend of mine is a mechanic at a local motorcycle shop, and they've got a T-Rex in there for repairs (electrical problems). Under the skin (and particularly inside the wiring harness!), they ain't pretty. Looks home-built.
Bombardier is a huge company; I'd trust them to sort out details better.
I think these would be nice for any trip requiring a LOT of luggage, or sedate two up riding. I would totally hate it around every corner and in traffic since lane splitting isn't feasible even in California where it's legal.
Eugene Leafty Fungi produce 13% of all the CO2 in the atmosphere, my motorcycle produces over 100 gallons of H2O per year.
While I love the idea of the Can-Am Spyder, I can't see how the vehicle would be more fun than riding a real bike that leans.
-Rick
This thing is built-in like a skidoo, hence the large handlebar to give you enough strength on the inside ski (err, wheel). When you get how it works, it is really really fun to drive. It is not the bike that leans, its you.
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