Hi fj&b, welcome to the Forum! :welcome: I bet you didn't think about how loooooonnnnnng that username is & what it might be abbreviated to when you chose it, did you?! :gaah:
However, that aside...
Not too many members spend a heap of time in &/or visting this section, which is partly why
SpyderBOT mentioned the following in the last line of his post just above yours:
Do NOT post support questions here, please post them in the appropriate forum once your account is approved.
So don't be surprised if you get very few responses here - and you'll need to wait until all your joining processing is completed until you can post anywhere else - your username will turn
Blue, like
SpyderBOT's when that happens, it rarely takes more than a day (well, only if you haven't tried to make it harder to verify that you are who & where you've said you are - if you've done that, it might take longer to confirm all that & complete the processing! :sour: )
But in the meantime, you could always read thru the links
SpyderBOT provided - that '
Do's & Don't's for new Spyder Owners' thread in particular might be of good value for you, possibly even answer most of your 'riding' questions, altho you will need to be a little careful about keeping the V-Twin vs 1330 differences in mind!
There's actually quite a few Spyder Ryders in your part of the World too, even on your little island
Not so many that you'll see them
every day, but they're out there, and once you start to look, I bet you'll be surprised how many you actually see out there! :thumbup: And rest assured, once they've learned how to 'ryde' properly, very few ever willingly give up the '
Miles of Smiles' these things bring!
hyea:
Just don't forget, '
You don't get too old and stop riding; you get old because you stop riding!' - check out the 'Enabled Spyder Ryders' sub-forum, that can be inspiring for anyone, even for a now quite decrepit, ex-service, Totally & Permanently Disabled, Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor like me! :shocked: There's some really inspirational people getting out there on Spyders every day, many of them usually showing many of those on 2-wheels who might
think that they're good riders or maybe even fast riders nothing but a set of taillights rapidly disappearing into the winding road ahead! :thumbup: There's lots of advantages to having
a pair of wheels up front giving un-paralleled steering & stability pretty much regardless of the road surface, teamed with some of the best brakes stopping anything, and backed up by a really good suite of 'rider & safety aids' - if you want to and you take the time/make the effort to start learning how to take advantage of all that, then pretty much the only thing holding you back will be the dirty great wall of air these things hafta push outta the way once you get out onto the longer straights & sweeping curves; but in the tight stuff where the surface is choppy &/or unpredictable and the straights are shorter, then if they're ridden reasonably well (give it time, it comes, even if you might hafta 'un-learn' a lot of the ingrained but 'lazy' habits many 2-wheelers fall into! :banghead: ) there's few on 2-wheels who'll ever be able to keep up with you, and even fewer on 4!! nojoke
Enjoy! Looking forward to seeing you out there on the more frequented pages soon, and to following your Spyder Experience! :cheers:
