Faults:

None.

General Comments:

Love this motorcycle.

Handles great, comfortable, and something my wife will ride with me on.

Faults:

This has been the most comfortable bike I've ever had. So far, it's been very reliable and worry free. Nothing wrong.

General Comments:

I've been very comfortable on this bike, but I have added Elka shocks and a Baja Rons anti-sway bar. The bike handles perfectly now with no complaints.

Faults:

I have owned this motorcycle for six months, and so far have had no problems.

General Comments:

This motorcycle is very easy to learn to handle for beginners; in some states a motorcycle endorsement is not required to drive it.

The passenger seat on the rear of the motorcycle is one of the most secure and comfortable ones I have ever seen.

There is a tremendous amount of storage on this machine.

Faults:

Nothing.

General Comments:

Love the way it handles.

Rides great long distance.

Very comfortable front and rear seating.

Faults:

Rear wheel speed sensor.

General Comments:

Great ride, but gets poor gas mileage.

Do not like the fact that your right foot gets hot while riding from the engine heat.

Faults:

Brake lights keep sticking on.

Had numerous error codes, but they were corrected by updating the computer.

General Comments:

The Spyder RT has ample power, and the paddle shift is great.

The down side is it needs a 6th gear to improve mileage on the highway, because it is running over 5000 RPM.

Only getting 38-40 miles per gallon. It should be much greater.

Storage for traveling is great, and my partner will ride with me now!

Faults:

No problems to date.

General Comments:

Bought the bike so my wife would ride with me; the 3-wheeled aspect was the primary draw so it would help minimise the potential for dropping the bike... and her. As a nurse with 41 years of ER/intensive care service, I didn't want her to have to experience anything like her patients had.

Bottom line: she is comfortable on the bike as a passenger and I am miserable. The seating position puts my legs in a bind that causes my knees and hips to ache to the point it makes me take a break after an hour. Get back on to ride and I need another break very soon. A standard motorcycle doesn't hurt me.

In no particular order:

Don't like the handling characteristics - engine noise; rides like it gets buffeted by the wind, and I know it's not that windy out every time I ride, to the point it feels like you're in a rowboat on a lake and it is wallowing in wind driven waves.

Don't like its shifting for me... you must meet certain RPM/speeds to upshift and it downshifts for you... or you can do that yourself -- either way, it's too much shifting, but they say they fixed that with the 2014 models 'no shifting in town'.

Turn signal only self-cancels on FULL (approaching 90 degrees +/-) turns, and when you manually cancel the signal, it's difficult to not go too far and be signaling in the opposite direction.

The gas gauge is a joke; shows empty when it's still about half full... that shouldn't require rocket science to engineer properly.

The brake pedal is right underneath the right foot peg; must be careful not to let your foot rest on it... and so it goes...

I'd buy another Goldwing instead - bought a new 1975 (dressed it), a new 1980 Interstate, and a new 1986 Se-i, before I'd buy another Spyder.

Browse some Spyder forums, some love 'em. I'm about to leave mine.

And it's not that I haven't ridden bikes... since 1970 until today, and haven't ridden straight through from central Ohio to Daytona Beach a few times...

Go with whatcha know. And ride on...