I started riding a motorbike on my friends farm when I was 11 years old, here I am, 52 years later and I'm loving my Ryker Sport and enjoying it as much as I did two wheels. That might shock a few peopple or raise some eyebrows, but there's a reason. I had a partial leg amutation in 1986, but within a year I was back on two wheels. My fun was short lived as a house purchase, an expensive blonde and two kids curtailed my activity with financial restrictions and time limitation. What I didn't know that was to come was more damage to my body, I had a fall at work in early 2008, which left me with more permanent and increasingly debilitating conditions. I damaged 4 joints in my spine, leaving way for a condition called DISH to cause chronic pain and restrictive movement, plus neurological weaknesses affecting my entire lower half. In October 2016, I had 2 seizures in two days, which left me with a large chunk of memory missing and my brain reset itself back to 1984, so what I had in my head between then and the day of the incident. For 3 months I didn't know who I was, had any idea that I'd had an amputation, bought property, had kids and done so many other things erased from my memory. In January 2017, only a few months after the seizures, my ex decided we should split up, so I decided with having to restart my life from a loss of memory point of view, I would restart my life from a personal view. I got out within a few days, because of my situation, the local housing authority put me on the top of the list as regards housing and after a couple of days staying with a friend, I was given a bungalow that had been adapted for someone with disabilites, since then, I've never looked back. In summer 2022, I had the opportunity and the finances to get back on the road, but I faced a very big problem, I'd lost all the memory retention, muscle and strength in the remaining residual limb, so if I tried to hold the bike up, I physically couldn't do it. Not wanting to put myself and other road users at risk, I took the big decision to curtail my two wheel career (which I enjoyed and got a great deal of pleasure from), sold my bike and bought a Canam Ryker. Yes it's different and handles a million miles away from a two wheeler, but it's given me the chance to get back on the road, safely and without any worries or hindrances. I exact a massive amount of pleasure, freedom and can go anywhere I want without restrictions and within my own physical limitations apart from trying to use it in ways it's not meant for. In simple terms, I'm back on the road, loving life, enjoying every minute I'm out riding and no matter what the weather conditions, I feel like I've been reborn and given a second chance at life and I'm certainly making the best of it. If you want a Ryker/Spyder through choice or physical restrictions and can afford it, get one, if you can ride a two wheeler and can afford it get one. We're only on the planet for a short time, so why not make it good one! Alan.
I’m an older ex biker who’s lost his confidence with two wheels. I have a car (boring) and a quad for taking time off in the woods and on dirt. At the moment I’m looking at a Ryker sport to add some storage to, so that I’m able experience the open road locally and do some touring down to and around the mountains. Loving your channel and thanks for all the tips!
I hope you found it helpful. The Ryker is a great little machine. The too case or other cases if you add a LINQ plate give a good amount of storage. I had a lot more to say but the video would have been way too long and most wouldn’t stick around long enough to get it all.
Im considering selling my 05 Rav4 and buy one of these Rykers. I only drive 10-15miles a day, I work 5miles up the street and barely travel outside my town. Don’t have the confidence or balance for a 2 wheel bike, and I don’t have the money for the CanAm Mavericks. This looks like a happy medium, I’ll have to take a test drive this summer
youtube.com/@spyderminimalist?si=5TMSjGcXTNIH4UGo This guy sold his car to just ride the Spyder. Check his channel out of some ideas on how to pull the no car thing off. Best of luck with whatever decision you make.
I bought a new 2020 Ryker Rally in 2020. I liked it in the beginning and then I starting finding all the defects. Long story short, I kept it for 15 months and traded it in. It was just to many problems to keep getting repaired. Wasted a ton of money with Slingmods. I bought a 2021 XSR900 and have been very satisfied every since. Perfect edition to my pair of cruisers.
I understand that. I have a 21 ryker and it was perfect for about a year then the vss started throwing codes. It turned out to be the sas after fixing it it has been problem free. Also got a 21 f3t and no problems at all so far. Both trikes work for me as i don’t need anymore than i have. But i really want a Ducati street fighter v4 in addition .
Good Video I have a F3 S and yes they are fun and I will say most 2 wheel motorcycles are highly impressed with these bike and the comfort thymes think these bikes are slow until you do a burn out and then they say oh snap that little thing is fast.
I get that but honestly i don’t think you would be giving up much. If you ride really aggressive maybe but if you ride normally i don’t think you would miss 2 wheels as much as you would think.
While I loved my little Can Am Ryker Rally... I just felt very uncomfortable when coming up to a stop. Now we all know motorcyclists in general are small targets which no one is looking for but when you are sitting at a stop between a cars you are really vulnerable to that rear end collision with no escape unlike a motorcycle where you have 2 wheels at least you can scoot between cars and not get hit. I started with Harley and I'm sure when I get to an age where I cannot ride I'll just convert one of my Harley's into a trike. Don't get me wrong... the Ryker is a great little reverse trike plus it's a twist and go with one foot brake to control all wheels and you never have to worry about putting your foot down for a stop.
Ive been eyeballing a 600 for some time.Never been a speed demon in anyway.The cruising you do in this video and some highway driving is what im looking to do.I live in California.A cruise solo and a passenger occasionally is what im interested in..Is a 600 perfect for this?
@@georgeacosta9364 the only difference between a 600 and a 900 is a cylinder unless they changed anything. I would lean more to the 900 just because you don’t know where you will be later on down the road. While the 600 will be fine you may need or wish you had the 900. I also think that the you would be better off with the 900 if you will have a passenger. Hope that helps
I'm interested in a ryker 600 just for tooling around town and carrying a passenger its a lot cheaper sounds better and I think 600 should be all I need at 200lbs for a smaller passenger the 600 also has the highest carrying load capacity out of any of the ryker models ironically too
@SIRyker yup different engine same frame. I guess why the 600 is slightly easier to work on too and maybe accounts for the higher load capacity since it's already carrying less weight Although I would have guessed the varying suspensions might have impacted such as well not according to can am website I think all things considered the sport is actually a good deal relative to the 600 But I think both could be about 2k cheaper
The sport is for me the perfect sporty beast . The rally is too much that i wont use and the 600 is to striped down for me ( I’m fat ). It all comes down to what you want and how much you CAN spend
I've surprised some people with how quick the rykers can be once you start tuning and modding them. But out of the box from Can am.. way to slow and conservative. Also, if you don't do most of the work yourself, I can see how it can get annoying and costly. The Rally is a good concept, but soooo limited in how you can actually use it to full ability.
Does a Ryker give more error codes and have trouble than a Spyder I have a 2022 Spyder and I’ve never had an issue it’s been over a year and keep up the good work
I hate to say it but yes. It also depends on the year. The Ryker is a newish model so bugs and supply quality control had to be worked out. I think most of the problems have been worked out by now. Many of the problems have been from the sensors used. The Spyder is an older platform and i haven’t seen a lot of complaints as to reliability.
I have had a 2019 Ryker rally and put about 16,000 miles on it and had zero problems with it. I traded it in for an F3 limited and love it too. The Ryker was great for its simplicity
Its a good question and i think it comes down to how you chose to steer. There are a few ways to do this some push some pull some both. But unless your in a heavily twisty area its not that much of of a strain, two wheels is easier but 3 is manageable
@@SIRyker 👍 im looking at a 2023 f3 s at my local dealership!! I kind of wanna wait for the 24 to hit, but I don’t know if touchscreen in Apple CarPlay is worth an extra two or three grand?? 🤔🤔 i’m wanting to buy it as kind of a second vehicle to zip around town and run errands on. Won’t be no more than maybe an hour or two hour ride at the longest. If the f3 t had sport mode I’d get it b/c I like the stereo!
@@jeremy8829 if your just zipping around than no , you can upgrade the regular headlights to led if you want . If you want to go on longer trips than I would wait for a 24 with the CarPlay .just remember the storage varies by the model.
So its boring. Got it These are popular in california for people that are scared of 2 wheels and/or cant get an M1 endorsement on their license because they cant pass a motorcycle riding test.
Id depend on how much excitement you want. Is it boring ? not for your average rider. if you like 3 digits on your speedometer then yea it would say yes.
I started riding a motorbike on my friends farm when I was 11 years old, here I am, 52 years later and I'm loving my Ryker Sport and enjoying it as much as I did two wheels. That might shock a few peopple or raise some eyebrows, but there's a reason. I had a partial leg amutation in 1986, but within a year I was back on two wheels. My fun was short lived as a house purchase, an expensive blonde and two kids curtailed my activity with financial restrictions and time limitation. What I didn't know that was to come was more damage to my body, I had a fall at work in early 2008, which left me with more permanent and increasingly debilitating conditions. I damaged 4 joints in my spine, leaving way for a condition called DISH to cause chronic pain and restrictive movement, plus neurological weaknesses affecting my entire lower half. In October 2016, I had 2 seizures in two days, which left me with a large chunk of memory missing and my brain reset itself back to 1984, so what I had in my head between then and the day of the incident. For 3 months I didn't know who I was, had any idea that I'd had an amputation, bought property, had kids and done so many other things erased from my memory. In January 2017, only a few months after the seizures, my ex decided we should split up, so I decided with having to restart my life from a loss of memory point of view, I would restart my life from a personal view. I got out within a few days, because of my situation, the local housing authority put me on the top of the list as regards housing and after a couple of days staying with a friend, I was given a bungalow that had been adapted for someone with disabilites, since then, I've never looked back.
In summer 2022, I had the opportunity and the finances to get back on the road, but I faced a very big problem, I'd lost all the memory retention, muscle and strength in the remaining residual limb, so if I tried to hold the bike up, I physically couldn't do it. Not wanting to put myself and other road users at risk, I took the big decision to curtail my two wheel career (which I enjoyed and got a great deal of pleasure from), sold my bike and bought a Canam Ryker. Yes it's different and handles a million miles away from a two wheeler, but it's given me the chance to get back on the road, safely and without any worries or hindrances.
I exact a massive amount of pleasure, freedom and can go anywhere I want without restrictions and within my own physical limitations apart from trying to use it in ways it's not meant for.
In simple terms, I'm back on the road, loving life, enjoying every minute I'm out riding and no matter what the weather conditions, I feel like I've been reborn and given a second chance at life and I'm certainly making the best of it.
If you want a Ryker/Spyder through choice or physical restrictions and can afford it, get one, if you can ride a two wheeler and can afford it get one. We're only on the planet for a short time, so why not make it good one!
Alan.
@@AlfUckhamHall what more can be said
I’m an older ex biker who’s lost his confidence with two wheels. I have a car (boring) and a quad for taking time off in the woods and on dirt. At the moment I’m looking at a Ryker sport to add some storage to, so that I’m able experience the open road locally and do some touring down to and around the mountains. Loving your channel and thanks for all the tips!
I hope you found it helpful. The Ryker is a great little machine. The too case or other cases if you add a LINQ plate give a good amount of storage. I had a lot more to say but the video would have been way too long and most wouldn’t stick around long enough to get it all.
@@SIRyker Well, if you decide to do a video on different storage options and other things I should know about the Ryker, I’ll be all ears, thank you!
@wayneatacornwoodturning2206 sounds simple enough ask and you shall receive.
Im considering selling my 05 Rav4 and buy one of these Rykers. I only drive 10-15miles a day, I work 5miles up the street and barely travel outside my town. Don’t have the confidence or balance for a 2 wheel bike, and I don’t have the money for the CanAm Mavericks. This looks like a happy medium, I’ll have to take a test drive this summer
youtube.com/@spyderminimalist?si=5TMSjGcXTNIH4UGo
This guy sold his car to just ride the Spyder. Check his channel out of some ideas on how to pull the no car thing off. Best of luck with whatever decision you make.
Yup. I get OCCASIONALLY blasting it, got the F3 up to 110 MPH for about 10 miles this morning, that will do me for a while.
Everyone needs to give it beans once in a while just to remind yourself you’re alive.
I bought a new 2020 Ryker Rally in 2020. I liked it in the beginning and then I starting finding all the defects. Long story short, I kept it for 15 months and traded it in. It was just to many problems to keep getting repaired. Wasted a ton of money with Slingmods. I bought a 2021 XSR900 and have been very satisfied every since. Perfect edition to my pair of cruisers.
I understand that. I have a 21 ryker and it was perfect for about a year then the vss started throwing codes. It turned out to be the sas after fixing it it has been problem free. Also got a 21 f3t and no problems at all so far. Both trikes work for me as i don’t need anymore than i have. But i really want a Ducati street fighter v4 in addition .
@@SIRyker What's "SAS"...thanks....buying a Ryker Rally this year very soon....55 years on 2 wheels,,,but still keeping my 2008 FLHX
@@deeblues1 SAS is the steering angle sensor. It does a few things like being a part of the safety system as well as turn off your turn signals.
@SIRyker thanks again.... taking some time to watch your post today on RUclips... your age ??
Early side of 50
iirc the ryker 900 actually has a faster 0-60 than the spyder f3 mostly because it is lighter
but you can hold the F3 at a higher RPM’s and keep it at peek horsepower.
@SIRyker isn't that neat? I think both platforms compliment eachother really well
Good Video I have a F3 S and yes they are fun and I will say most 2 wheel motorcycles are highly impressed with these bike and the comfort thymes think these bikes are slow until you do a burn out and then they say oh snap that little thing is fast.
The no brake needed burnouts are very impressive. I agree that most riders will give it a look but those hardcore types won't.
Great video! Just got done with a cruise on my Rebel 500 and yea I love two wheels. Some day when I can't do two wheels I'd love a Can-Am trike.
I get that but honestly i don’t think you would be giving up much. If you ride really aggressive maybe but if you ride normally i don’t think you would miss 2 wheels as much as you would think.
Well done bro😊lve had the Harleys and there nice..BUT CAN AMS ARE ALOT OF "FUN"...LOVE EM😊
Its all about the fun in the end.
While I loved my little Can Am Ryker Rally... I just felt very uncomfortable when coming up to a stop. Now we all know motorcyclists in general are small targets which no one is looking for but when you are sitting at a stop between a cars you are really vulnerable to that rear end collision with no escape unlike a motorcycle where you have 2 wheels at least you can scoot between cars and not get hit. I started with Harley and I'm sure when I get to an age where I cannot ride I'll just convert one of my Harley's into a trike. Don't get me wrong... the Ryker is a great little reverse trike plus it's a twist and go with one foot brake to control all wheels and you never have to worry about putting your foot down for a stop.
I actually never worried about rear ends. I worry more about getting hit from someone running a red light when i take off from a light.
Ive been eyeballing a 600 for some time.Never been a speed demon in anyway.The cruising you do in this video and some highway driving is what im looking to do.I live in California.A cruise solo and a passenger occasionally is what im interested in..Is a 600 perfect for this?
@@georgeacosta9364 the only difference between a 600 and a 900 is a cylinder unless they changed anything. I would lean more to the 900 just because you don’t know where you will be later on down the road. While the 600 will be fine you may need or wish you had the 900. I also think that the you would be better off with the 900 if you will have a passenger. Hope that helps
Don't forget those 2wheel riders that no longer can pickup there rides when the fall over! That's me, I switched from an 08 wing to an RTL22
I think that falls in a definitely for you category. Do you find that you miss the 2 wheels?
Nope! but if I get a hankering the 08 be in my sons stable so it not far away.
@@n6dl321 well i hope you get the most out of your new ride.
Great vid. 100% true! Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed it and think i got it right. Happy thanksgiving to you and yours.
I'm interested in a ryker 600 just for tooling around town and carrying a passenger
its a lot cheaper sounds better and I think 600 should be all I need at 200lbs for a smaller passenger
the 600 also has the highest carrying load capacity out of any of the ryker models ironically too
If it suits your needs and wants go for it. Its the same trike minus 1 cylinder.
@SIRyker yup different engine same frame. I guess why the 600 is slightly easier to work on too and maybe accounts for the higher load capacity since it's already carrying less weight
Although I would have guessed the varying suspensions might have impacted such as well
not according to can am website
I think all things considered the sport is actually a good deal relative to the 600
But I think both could be about 2k cheaper
The sport is for me the perfect sporty beast . The rally is too much that i wont use and the 600 is to striped down for me ( I’m fat ). It all comes down to what you want and how much you CAN spend
Happy Thanksgiving bud, enjoy!
Have a happy thanksgiving !
great job thanks
You’re welcome
I've surprised some people with how quick the rykers can be once you start tuning and modding them. But out of the box from Can am.. way to slow and conservative.
Also, if you don't do most of the work yourself, I can see how it can get annoying and costly. The Rally is a good concept, but soooo limited in how you can actually use it to full ability.
I agree but that being said I’m sure it has more to do with lawyers than engineers. It sits in the sweet spot for me others might find it too slow.
Does a Ryker give more error codes and have trouble than a Spyder I have a 2022 Spyder and I’ve never had an issue it’s been over a year and keep up the good work
I hate to say it but yes. It also depends on the year. The Ryker is a newish model so bugs and supply quality control had to be worked out. I think most of the problems have been worked out by now. Many of the problems have been from the sensors used. The Spyder is an older platform and i haven’t seen a lot of complaints as to reliability.
I have had a 2019 Ryker rally and put about 16,000 miles on it and had zero problems with it. I traded it in for an F3 limited and love it too. The Ryker was great for its simplicity
@@stevechristopher4123 like any other thing mechanical its hit or miss.
Very true
Are they hard to steer ? - It always looked to me like you would wear yourself out steering the thing.
Its a good question and i think it comes down to how you chose to steer. There are a few ways to do this some push some pull some both. But unless your in a heavily twisty area its not that much of of a strain, two wheels is easier but 3 is manageable
If you drop a knee on a Spyder,,, you fell off!!!!!
@@jeremy8829 ok how about put the knee in the wind
@@SIRyker 👍 im looking at a 2023 f3 s at my local dealership!! I kind of wanna wait for the 24 to hit, but I don’t know if touchscreen in Apple CarPlay is worth an extra two or three grand?? 🤔🤔 i’m wanting to buy it as kind of a second vehicle to zip around town and run errands on. Won’t be no more than maybe an hour or two hour ride at the longest. If the f3 t had sport mode I’d get it b/c I like the stereo!
@@SIRyker also thanks for the video! 💯🦾🙏😎
@@jeremy8829 if your just zipping around than no , you can upgrade the regular headlights to led if you want . If you want to go on longer trips than I would wait for a 24 with the CarPlay .just remember the storage varies by the model.
@@jeremy8829 you’re welcome
So its boring. Got it
These are popular in california for people that are scared of 2 wheels and/or cant get an M1 endorsement on their license because they cant pass a motorcycle riding test.
Id depend on how much excitement you want. Is it boring ? not for your average rider. if you like 3 digits on your speedometer then yea it would say yes.
It’s not for organ donors
Not sure exactly what you mean but I do the phrase.