6/4/23
As this email hits your inbox, I’m sitting on a flight back to the US. I spent the last few days with an enthusiastic bunch of riders—more than 350 of them—riding through the Austrian countryside and high Alpine roads. But things were a little different with this group: Instead of two wheels on each machine there were three.
Can-Am’s Grossglockner Challenge celebrated its 10th running, and this year was even more special because 2023 is the Quebec company’s 50th anniversary. Celebrations are fun, but I was here to ride and find out just how comfortable and usable a 2023 Can-Am Spyder RT Sea-to-Sky would be on one of Europe's best-known roads. You’ll have to wait for my review in a couple of weeks for the answer.
What struck me about this ride with 350 of my new friends was just how it felt like any other manufacturer rally. That is until you stepped outside the event tent and saw a sea of Can-Am Spyders and Rykers. On the road the ride is much different from a two-wheel motorcycle, but not wholly unfamiliar. Is it motorcycling? That is the question weighing heavy on my mind as I prepare for the ride home. Yes and no, in surprisingly good and some not-so-good ways.
Until my review and ride report hits the site, check these other reviews of three-wheeled machines on Cycle World to get up to speed on all the triangular configurations available to a rider. How do you see them? Let us know in the comments of the articles below.
As always, there’s more than we can fit into this email. Check out cycleworld.com for additional tests, reviews, and news.
Ride on,
Justin Dawes
Executive Editor
