Can-Am Adventure Spider

[hawk281]

I been thinking it would be different to build a Spider adventure bike. I mean most of us don't single track our Tenere's, but do ride on dirt and gravel roads. I think it would work, long travel suspension, mud/snow tires, strip off some of the plastic and it's a mean dirt machine. Just have to get the boss to let me use hers for the experiment. Ya, like that's going to happen. ::021::

 

[Checkswrecks]

That could be an expensive experiment if the doesn't skin you.
Reminds me of this:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Euvp-k-x7Y

 

[Roge]

I looked at how they would go on dirt roads and there is stuff on the interweb, it basically says don't go there, the three wheel config means you can't stay in or out of any wheel ruts as one of the wheels will be not in one hopefully the rear and ground clearance is an issue. If the rear drops in the bike is sideways.

 

[Dirt_Dad]

My wife had a Spyder for a while. It's hard to pick the most miserable experience we had with it, but one of them would certainly be the time we took it off pavement. It was tolerable for the first several miles of well groomed road, but when it turned rutted and muddy it became outright miserable. Darn near zero ground clearance with her sport machine. Only made that mistake once.

There would be a lot of challenges to make one dirt worthy. Probably better to start with a clean sheet of paper rather than attempting to modify a Spyder.

 

[1954]

I had a 2009 Spyder RS and I enjoyed it. I put 10K on it. The thing I liked about it was it's all weather nature.I road it in the winter as long as the roads were dry. A little snow did not bother it and sand on corners did not affect it. The stability control works really well. The problem off road is as mentioned, the lack of ground clearance. The other problem is the belt drive. When a stone gets between the belt and the rear or front sprocket, that is usually the end of both the belt and the sprocket. I always used to look at my Spyder and wish it had shaft drive.