CanAm Spyder F3: snowboard on wheels – this motorcycle drives like a car

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CanAm Spyder F3

Snowboard on wheels – this motorcycle drives like a car

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  • Site online author Jurgen Wolff

Motorbike feeling without a motorbike and motorbike license? With a trike like the new CanAm Spyder F3, this is also possible in this country. However, the driving pleasure does not come cheap.

Motorcyclists with their visors open know this: nasty little mosquitoes smack their teeth, whirled grains of sand sand the skin, every oncoming truck hits a small hurricane and every 100 meters a new scent caresses the olfactory nerves. But even without a license to ride a motorcycle, you can experience at least part of this feeling – if you get your category B driver’s license before the age of 19. Made January 2013 and around 20.000 euros left. Oh yes: and is at least 21 years old.

The Can Am Spyder is an inverted tricycle

Because then you can already drive a vehicle in Germany like the CanAm Spyder F3 produced in Canada. Anyone who has obtained their driver’s license later will be punished by life: a class A motorcycle driver’s license is then required. The Spyder is – to put it simply – a kind of inverted tricycle with a beefy outfit and an equally beefy engine just behind the front wheels. It is also becoming increasingly popular in Germany. According to the Federal Motor Transport Authority, at the end of 2013 there were almost 1.000 pieces registered, almost half of them in Bavaria.

Anyone who switches from the car to the Spyder will find their way around quickly – and feel safe – unlike when switching to a motorcycle. Falling over is not, so the risk of damage to body and ego is fairly low. The trike is also stuffed with modern safety electronics: ABS from Bosch, traction control, stability control – everything is there.

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Snowmobile with wheels

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Snowmobile with wheels

Pedal braking

Braking is not done with the hand on the handlebars at the front and with a foot pedal at the rear like on a motorbike, but just like in a car using a brake pedal on the footrest that acts on all three wheels. These, in turn, can be adjusted in five positions to suit the height of the driver, just like the handlebars. The disc brakes all around are from Brembo and provide a sensitive or impressively ruthless deceleration, depending on your needs. Those who are particularly serious about comfortable cruising can order the F3 with a 6-speed semi-automatic, which can also be controlled manually using a thumb lever on the left hand grip. About an extra button you can insert reverse, which is helpful when parking. Also at the push of a button, the electromechanical parking brake works.

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Give gas like the motorcycle

Gas is completely conventional about the rotation of the right hand handle. For cornering, the Spyder – other than tricycle studies like Toyotas i-Road – is not in the curve. Motorcyclists like to mockingly grin and tap the broken asphalt from the knee protection – but please remember how long they needed to develop a feeling for the balance of their machine. At Spyder, a strong back pressure with the thigh on the tank and some force on the handlebar is sufficient to get halfway elegantly through the curve.

There is space for up to two passengers on the CanAm Spyder F3. Alone, you are still relatively relaxed after a few hours, but for two, the comfortable backrests, which are available as accessories, are recommended for leisurely cruising. The suspension comfort is very comfortable – once you realize that putting manhole covers between the wheels on a tricycle doesn’t help much. The luggage is more of a problem: the front cargo area has just 24.4 liters of storage space for a helmet. It is therefore not without reason that saddlebags and a small trailer with a capacity of 622 liters can be found in the accessories shop.

An expensive fun

One cannot complain about a lack of motorization with the CanAm Spyder F3. The water-cooled Rotax engine, manufactured in Austria, gets three cylinders with a total of 1.330cc displacement at 7.250 rpm. an output of 86 kW/115 hp and a maximum torque of 130 Nm at 5.000 rpm is present. In view of a curb weight of just 386 kilograms, the very atmospheric acceleration arias with the 2nd.642 mm long Spyder: One turn of the handle – and washed past the truck. From 0 to 100 km/h it can be chased in just 4.4 seconds, at just under 170 km/h it’s over. But before that, the wind had already pulled you down. You practically have the consumption in your hand: Depending on your driving style, you are on the road with six or more than nine liters per 100 kilometers. In any case, the tank has a capacity of 27 liters.

When the CanAm Spyder F3 is also available in Germany in March 2015, there will be a whopping 18.899 euros due, for the F3 S at least 21.899 euros.

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4 thoughts on “CanAm Spyder F3: snowboard on wheels – this motorcycle drives like a car”

  1. Switched from motorcycle to Spyder F3
    I switched from the motorcycle to the Spyder. It’s certainly different from a motorcycle but man has … I switched from the motorcycle to the Spyder. It is certainly different from a motorcycle but has its appeal. Of course you should have taken a ride…….

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  2. It’s not fun to drive
    Only a winding country road shows the appeal of motorcycling, but only those who have already experienced it understand it. When a vehicle comes along that looks like a motorcycle but drives like a car, I ask myself why I shouldn’t get into a real car right away, because at least I have a roof over my head and a crumple zone in front of the stomach.

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  3. Switched from motorcycle to Spyder F3
    Switched from the motorcycle to the Spyder F3. It’s certainly a different ride, but it has its appeal. But you should have driven it……

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  4. illness
    A "motorcycle", that drives like a car isn’t "driving fun". But an illness. __________________

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