It is quick. I took my Spyder on a ride with the Cleveland BMW owners club down into WV. We like to ride the curvy roads in a "spirited" fashion. I didn't have much trouble keeping up with them. I was very new to my Spyder at the time, and it had (and still has) the OEM tires and anti-sway bar. With improved skills and machinery, who knows? I might actually outrun them.
Once you really get used to riding your Spyder, working it a bit, and you start pushing for that 'perfect ride', where it all works sooo smoothly and exactly how you've pictured it in your mind (unless you have Aphantasia, of course.
) then you'll eventually find that even on a largely factory Spyder (once you get rid of the Kendas, anyway!) you really
CAN 'outrun' pretty much all of the 2 wheelers, but only in the technical stuff, with tight turns, unpredictable surfaces, and short straights!
I don't do too many 'group rides' with 2 wheelers along, but when I do, I generally have a ball doing just that here in the Hills, where every corner has some degree of complexity; the straights are rarely too much longer than 40-50 metres; and even in the best of weather, there's likely gonna be something like loose sand, gravel, water run off, or loose (wet, dry, duz'n matta!) leaves strewn across the road surface part way around the next blind curve that will absolutely kill the ability of most 2 wheel machines to stay on their tiny rubber contact patches at speed (corners/surfaces that have been known to kill riders when they try, too!
) - and that pretty much describes most of the 'non-Highway/Freeway' roads here in the Hills, where many (if not most) of the curves
ARE blind!
But once out of the Hills where the curves start opening out and the straights start getting a fair bit longer, some of the 2 wheel machines will start to be able to catch up - after all, they don't hafta push the massive great barn door sized 'wall of air' down the road that all Spyders & Rykers do hafta push outta their way, courtesy of their reverse trike platform and for some models, their windscreens, panniers, etc also! But it sure is fun standing around before one of these rides and hearing all the trash talk coming from the 2 wheelers (who don't yet know Spyders) about these 'old man trikes' or 'those things are just for cripples'; then going out and proving them
sooo wrong, by either pushing them so hard that they give up on trying to stay ahead, or leaving them so far behind that they can't even see the 'rapidly disappearing into the distance ahead' tail-lights of my Spyder! And for those who are excessively mouthy, I take great joy in reaching our first planned 'coffee break'
so long before them that when they get there, the freshly made coffee I bought them on my arrival is now cold, or better yet, the cold & frosty beer I had waiting for them is now room temperature warm and disgusting!
Like I said, I don't do many of these group rides in the Hills, but when I do,
no-one who's ridden with me before
ever suggests that I should ride up the back with the slower machines - not more than once, anyway! And most of the local Spyder riders enjoy doing this almost as much as I do!!
Just Sayin'
