Was just watching this you tube link and the part about a Can-Am crash. I'm thinking not paying attention.
How could you not negotiate a corner, unless high speed was involved?
Sturgis 2026
News story about accident
Can-Am Crash
As noted in one of those vids, and in many posts & threads here, there's different skills and techniques required for riding a Spyder to those necessary for riding a 2 wheeled bike, and for some, the transition isn't always seamless! One of the early Spyder fatalities here in Oz occurred on a test ride, within a hundred metres of starting and at less than about 50 kph/about 32 mph - the 'new rider', a 2 wheeled rider of more than just a couple of decades experience, started off fairly slowly, came to the first curve, and then counter-steered straight into a tree, without slowing at all! Game over.
So for
that bit, while high speed might be involved, it really isn't necessary, just a momentary lapse of concentration &/or awareness of what machine you are actually on is more than enough to do it!
This applies especially if the rider is a little tired after a long day in the saddle, maybe because they've been riding a reasonably long distance/across a few States to get to an event they feel is a bit special, like many feel about Stugis?
Mind you, I do often have a quiet chortle to myself whenever I hear some narrator or rider, regardless of whether they're AI or a real live person, say, as someone did in one of those vids... '
Spyders are easy to ride, but you just can't corner fast - you just can't!'
Sure, that might be true if you just plonk yourself down on the saddle like a half filled sack of potatoes and push/pull the handlebars like you would a wheelbarrow, but if only those people knew
exactly HOW MUCH faster and HOW MUCH safer a Spyder CAN be when cornering than any 2 wheeler, once the rider learns how to take advantage of the Spyder's massively increased tire footprint, traction, steering geometry, stability, and even the Nanny, along with all the benefits that lot brings, and the rider then has the strength to and puts the effort in to use all of that to their advantage!! Yeah, just getting on and pottering around on a Spyder
IS easy, but actually
Riding a Spyder to
anywhere near its true potential, which is significantly beyond that of any 2 wheeled machine in the corners/twisty stuff, especially where the road surface/traction might be a bit iffy, now
that takes a bit of effort and some better developed skills - skills that are different/not the same as those required &/or developed by riding a 2 wheeler for decades! But I can tell, every time, that the person saying Spyder's can't corner fast just has
NOOO idea, None, Zip, Nada!
