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Posted by 49Reo
- June 25, 2014, 11:25:44 AMQuote from: greenbarn on June 24, 2014, 21:28:13 PMSo, a customer bought this a few weeks ago, and brought it into the shop. It's a scooter, designed, obviously, to to look like a Spyder. The thing is kind of neat, I guess, but not built very well. It's imported from China, and they call it the "sunny".
Customer said he had to take it to a shop within a couple weeks of having it to get it to run. He brought it to us b/c the front end shakes so bad you couldn't get over 30 mph without it being dangerous. We tried balancing, but the tires are way out of round. You can put lipstick on a pig... but it's still a pig.....
After balancing it was 50% better but not good. put a couple of Michelins on it, and that made it 90% better. The steering linkage is way loose on it, so any little bump in the road gives it a little shimmy, but it's way better than before.
Rear end like a scooter, front end like a quad. Strange thing is, it leans like a bike. Really throws you off at first - especially at low speeds. You go to turn the front wheels, like on a quad, and it tries to high-side and wants to fall over and dump you off. The customer put it in the ditch, I'm told, first time he turned it around.
Bottom line; cute, but I'll stick with the Drifter.
Cute...yeah....like 10 miles of bad road.... 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 25, 2014, 09:27:26 AMNow one of the lads I work with has a Spyder, and the day I can not ride 2 wheels anymore I would really consider getting one of them. They are really comfortable and easy to ride, they do not handle like a bike and side car, nor a trike, but almost in between them. They have a lots of storage places and are easy to handle. The rear tire on a Spyder is almost three times the size of that one.....lol.....
Posted by greenbarn
- June 24, 2014, 21:28:13 PMSo, a customer bought this a few weeks ago, and brought it into the shop. It's a scooter, designed, obviously, to to look like a Spyder. The thing is kind of neat, I guess, but not built very well. It's imported from China, and they call it the "sunny".
Customer said he had to take it to a shop within a couple weeks of having it to get it to run. He brought it to us b/c the front end shakes so bad you couldn't get over 30 mph without it being dangerous. We tried balancing, but the tires are way out of round. You can put lipstick on a pig... but it's still a pig.....
After balancing it was 50% better but not good. put a couple of Michelins on it, and that made it 90% better. The steering linkage is way loose on it, so any little bump in the road gives it a little shimmy, but it's way better than before.
Rear end like a scooter, front end like a quad. Strange thing is, it leans like a bike. Really throws you off at first - especially at low speeds. You go to turn the front wheels, like on a quad, and it tries to high-side and wants to fall over and dump you off. The customer put it in the ditch, I'm told, first time he turned it around.
Bottom line; cute, but I'll stick with the Drifter.