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  1. nightfalcon

    Review: The Can-Am Ryker... A Great Ride!

    Question for @BajaRon... I have a 2023 Rally, and I've found that any amount of cross wind on sealed roads unsettles the steering. I also like riding it on our roughish gravel roads, where hitting ruts and/or potholes easily takes the front end offline and is felt quite hard through the bars...
  2. nightfalcon

    BRP Abandons New Zealand Regional On Road Customers

    All commendable observations however in todays connected world Corporations can and MUST be held to account for their business decisions, particularly when they claim the moral high ground. I have been in touch with several people from BRP and discussions are ongoing, I'm ever the optimist so...
  3. nightfalcon

    BRP Abandons New Zealand Regional On Road Customers

    It is not a question of economic downturn. Every one of the dealers is still in business selling Can Am off-road vehicles. Can Am on-road used the connections they had through Can Am off-road to convince their dealer network to sell on-road vehicles some years ago. Then once the dealers had...
  4. nightfalcon

    BRP Abandons New Zealand Regional On Road Customers

    BRP Customer support got back to me this morning.... They listed 5 dealers near me that could service my bike...great....except they were the very ones they closed down. The phone number they also provided for further contact was discontinued. BRP Company Care not customer care in action.....the...
  5. nightfalcon

    BRP Abandons New Zealand Regional On Road Customers

    I don't buy the on-road v off-road business models... it's all owned by BRP. They could easily allow them to service the vehicles, more so in the case of factory safety recalls, where they are responsible for the failure. This is simply BRP being spiteful to insubordinate dealers, plain and...
  6. nightfalcon

    BRP Abandons New Zealand Regional On Road Customers

    Auckland Wellington Christchurch. From what I was told by a dealer, BRP required them to stock their full range of on road vehicles on their showroom floors. Many could not afford it especially as they don't sell. They were happy to keep servicing for existing customers but BRP cancelled their...
  7. nightfalcon

    BRP Abandons New Zealand Regional On Road Customers

    So popped into my local Can Am dealership today to see about the fuel pump recall only to be told they won't be able to help. Apparently BRP have decided not to support their on-road dealer network outside of our three main centres. On to the blower and got a hold of their customer care centre...
  8. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    Came across some shingle that had spilled onto the road from a stockpile right in the middle of a tight corner on my last ride. Couldn't see it going into the corner; if I was on a bike there is no telling how it might have ended. The Rally never flinched, just rode straight over it. The state...
  9. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    I guess most of the folks saying "to relax and use the throttle rather than push or pull the bars" maybe have power assisted steering on their machines. To be fair, it was a longish ride for me, so my shoulders were out of their comfort zone (as was the rest of my saggy old hide) - it just means...
  10. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    Thanks, we are very fortunate to have lots of beautiful scenery and the backroads to see them in NZ. The USA has always been on my bucket list to ride, and I now have a son in law and daughter living in San Diego, so it might happen! New bars seem to have put paid to the wrist problem: I...
  11. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    Loving the Rally
  12. nightfalcon

    Need advice on Removing Ryker OEM Comfort Passenger seat... Any tips?

    Its a fairly crappy system which can be frustrating to get right. The button can get out of line so you need to look closely at the outer rim as it passess through the max mount. Make sure it isn't hooked up. The seat should slide forward (towards the tank). there is a 15-20mm long locking arms...
  13. nightfalcon

    MY '21/'22 Production Ryker Fuel pump recall; + some '19-'24 replacements!

    My Rally is subject to the recall. The dealer is ordering replacement parts but they won't be available until Feb at the earliest. Thanks for the heads up :-)
  14. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    First time on gravel today. The rally was well at home on the steep uphill twisty climbs. Rally mode made power drifting around corners as easy as twisting the throttle. The suspension was also spot on. It seems the Can am guru's have got this machine pretty well set up out of the box, the bars...
  15. nightfalcon

    Discussing Throttle-by-wire, throttle response, and Pedal Commander 'improvements'

    My comment.... "so....Pedal Commander tells the butterfly to open a third of a blink of an eye earlier than would otherwise be the case." would've been better written... Pedal commander tells the butterfly to open wider than would otherwise be the case? Given your comment.... "Because Pedal...
  16. nightfalcon

    Coolant Change - how's it done on a Ryker?

    As above the repair manual is cheap and almost compulsory for DIY maintenance.
  17. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    Thanks for this, sounds exactly what I'm looking for. will check them out. Cheers!
  18. nightfalcon

    Discussing Throttle-by-wire, throttle response, and Pedal Commander 'improvements'

    so....Pedal Commander tells the butterfly to open a third of a blink of an eye earlier than would otherwise be the case. The butterfly has a fixed maximum speed at which it can open but PC allows the command to do its thing 0.035ms earlier? That is, while the throttle is being opened (as fast...
  19. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    Thanks for the comments. I'm not sure risers are the solution as the bars are already quite high compared to the bikes I've ridden, where the bars a noticeably lower for my 6'2" frame. The wrist problem is (I think) the hand grips are at too acute an angle. They aren't in fact too bad of an...
  20. nightfalcon

    My Ryker Rally Adventure Thread

    Wondering if anyone here has swapped out their handlebars and what you ended up with. My wrists are getting a bit of a hammering pulling the bars around the backroad twisties which abound in NZ. In spite of bar end weights and grip puppies I'm still getting pains.
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