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Thread: I'm confused. What's the etiquette with a Can Am 3-wheel thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GSF View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by gijoe1313 View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by GrayWolf View Post
    Whats funny is most 99% of the haters, nay sayers have never actually ridden one.
    Compared to a middleweight sprot bike or larger? no they arent 'fast' but they are as quick as most 800cc plus cruisers. They lean away from corners like a car? and no different from a motorcycle sidecar 'lifts' the chair wheel, going round a left hander. I've ridden several thousand K's on one, with one, or pillion on one.
    If you bother to read some of the letters from owners, as has been pointed out, many have been amputee's or injured riders, who have been given a 'second chance' to ride again, when they believed they would never be able to, ever.
    OK they have the disadvantages of a bike. (exposed) and the disadvantages of a car, stuck in traffic... but fun? if you can ride a quad, you can just about instantly leap onto a can am and get going... if not? they like any new vehicle take adjusting to... but once you have??
    What makes me 'smile' is some of the same people who have 'moaned' about the Harley Attitude (waving) are now spouting the same shit towards the Spyder riders!!!
    Said slowly for the old man.... 'BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MOTORCYCLES'.

    I have no interest in cars, or jet skis, or helicopters, or anything else that isn't a motorcycle either. Why you'd expect any support for them here I don't know... it's KiwiBiker, not KiwiMotorisedVehicleOwner. I could give two shits if they use a motorcycle engine, or you sit on them like a horse, or whatever similarities they have to motorcycles; none of those things make them a motorcycle.

    I'm sure they're very lovely at all the things they do, but they're not motorcycles, end of.

    Why they would want to be motorcyclists in any case I can't fathom... they're clearly their own thing, why not just celebrate that and be done with it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleemanj View Post
    Perhaps we could say, anything the pilot sits ON, and has 3 wheels and a motor is a motorcycle.
    - Can Am
    - Sidecar setups
    - Honda Gyro
    - Trikes
    The Oracle, SpankMe, has stated that three wheels = car. His site, his rules.


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    A sidecar is a motorcycle with something bolted on the side. Trikes and can-ams are for faggots that want to ride a motorcycle but don't have the balls or talent. All the disadvantages of a motorcycle combined with those of a car, and none of the advantages. A scornful look in my mirror, be it on bike or cage will suffice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    Said slowly for the old man.... 'BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MOTORCYCLES'.

    I have no interest in cars, or jet skis, or helicopters, or anything else that isn't a motorcycle either. Why you'd expect any support for them here I don't know... it's KiwiBiker, not KiwiMotorisedVehicleOwner. I could give two shits if they use a motorcycle engine, or you sit on them like a horse, or whatever similarities they have to motorcycles; none of those things make them a motorcycle.

    I'm sure they're very lovely at all the things they do, but they're not motorcycles, end of.

    Why they would want to be motorcyclists in any case I can't fathom... they're clearly their own thing, why not just celebrate that and be done with it?
    I dig your answer. Totally nailed it. Respect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sable View Post
    A sidecar is a motorcycle with something bolted on the side. Trikes and can-ams are for faggots that want to ride a motorcycle but don't have the balls or talent. All the disadvantages of a motorcycle combined with those of a car, and none of the advantages. A scornful look in my mirror, be it on bike or cage will suffice.
    My mate does seem to pull the girls with his Canam - any interest in that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sable View Post
    A sidecar is a motorcycle with something bolted on the side. Trikes and can-ams are for faggots that want to ride a motorcycle but don't have the balls or talent. All the disadvantages of a motorcycle combined with those of a car, and none of the advantages. A scornful look in my mirror, be it on bike or cage will suffice.
    Ok lets do it this way then dipshit, Vicky is 5ft 3, and has little legs, she can only JUST touch the ground on a GN250..... no balls or talent? Simple the Can Am allows her to have a large capacity machine she can tour, cover distances on when riding with large capacity machines....... Oh and I ride/rode it, so I have no fucking talent or balls either! better sell the ZZR1100 and MT-01, to someone WITH balls eh? Oh and I can assure you, I would LOVE to see you say to her face that she has no talent, and Can Am's are for faggots...... I really would!
    After 38 years of riding a bike as MAIN TRANSPORT, dipshits still have a talent to amaze me with their crass stupidity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by imdying View Post
    Said slowly for the old man.... 'BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MOTORCYCLES'.

    I have no interest in cars, or jet skis, or helicopters, or anything else that isn't a motorcycle either. Why you'd expect any support for them here I don't know... it's KiwiBiker, not KiwiMotorisedVehicleOwner. I could give two shits if they use a motorcycle engine, or you sit on them like a horse, or whatever similarities they have to motorcycles; none of those things make them a motorcycle.

    I'm sure they're very lovely at all the things they do, but they're not motorcycles, end of.

    Why they would want to be motorcyclists in any case I can't fathom... they're clearly their own thing, why not just celebrate that and be done with it?
    Then all I can say is, THANK FUCK i am not a 'MOTORCYCLIST' as perceived by people like yourself..........
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    Quote Originally Posted by sootie View Post
    My mate does seem to pull the girls with his Canam - any interest in that?
    Not sure, GrayWolf seems to be getting pretty excited about them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    Not sure, GrayWolf seems to be getting pretty excited about them.
    Well, as said previously, very very comfortable to pillion on, and pretty impressive in loose sand (even two up).
    A bit hard on gas (as you would expect with all that un streamlined frontal area); the biggest problem for me would be where I woud store another car sized (lets not go there again!) object.
    As stated previously, they are not slow, and corner well (but not brilliantly).
    I did find it very strange to follow one in a group at first. You have to remember to lean on 2 wheels even when the guy in front doesn't! Got used to that now.

    I am not going to trade my ZZR1100 for a Spyder, but whatever spins your wheels Man!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrayWolf View Post
    the ZZR1100 and MT-01
    Quote Originally Posted by GrayWolf View Post
    Then all I can say is, THANK FUCK i am not a 'MOTORCYCLIST' as perceived by people like yourself..........
    Ahhh... yeah you are.... the Oompa Loompa you're porking however, is not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sable View Post
    A sidecar is a motorcycle with something bolted on the side. Trikes and can-ams are for faggots that want to ride a motorcycle but don't have the balls or talent. All the disadvantages of a motorcycle combined with those of a car, and none of the advantages. A scornful look in my mirror, be it on bike or cage will suffice.
    Given the way my mates ride Spyders and the kind of bikes you seem to own, I seriously doubt you get to see them in your review mirrors ..
    "So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."

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    Spyder good points:

    1. you dont have to remember to put the sidestand down
    2.you can park it in the disabled spaces and no one will think you are taking the piss
    3.you can go to discount tyres and get cheap car tyres for it.
    4. you can pretend you are in the movie star wars when riding it.

    Spyder not so good points:

    1. Its a trike, not a motorbike
    2.You look like a knob on one
    3.you will always have people pointing at you saying, why?
    4.you have to buy 2 front tyres

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