BIKE TEST

CAN-AM SPYDER F3S TRIPLE THE ATTENTION
WORDS/PHOTOS NICK WOOD

Until Stuart suggested I pick up the new 2015 Spyder F3S model from Western Motorcycles in Penrith, my only encounter with a Can-Am three-wheeler had been heading down to Dalgety a few years back. I remember this journey well; in fact I still wake up screaming every now and then. The Bear and I nearly joined the Choir Invisible Coming the other way out of Cooma along the Monaro Highway, a Toyota Land cruiser towing a heavy wood chipper, jack-knifed. Had it not been for the gods to decide it was not our time to die, it would not have missed us by inches. We would simply have been splattered. There was nowhere to go. The journey back from Dalgety was also memorable as it rained stair rods the whole way back and I thought if I had to be anywhere right now, it’s riding pillion on the back of the Spyder, with its massive perspex screen and bulky chassis to keep us a modicum of dry.