R1Liz – Can-Am Ryker – First Ride!

My first time riding a Can-Am! The lovely people at Offshore Performance in Poole invited me to come and try a bike out, an entirely different style of bike than what I’m used to, and as always, I was very scared. Here’s how we got on…

Let me know if you want to see more of these three wheeled bikes – there are many different variations in other styles and sizes.

Good morning YouTube Look At Me doing a voice over I wanted to do this walk around video but it was super windy so I had to get rid of the sound so now I have to talk over it instead here is the bike that I am riding today it is a

Canam it’s got three wheels it’s super different and the lovely mark from offshore performance invited me to come down and have a go on one see how I get on and maybe do some stuff with them in the future so without further Ado here is my

First time riding this bike I hope you enjoy it um let me know what you Think you guys this might be the weirdest thing I’ve ever ridden what what the hell so I’m on a Canam Rica 900 rally I probably said all of that in the wrong order but that’s the information that you need it is a three-wheel motorcycle that you can drive on a car license

And a motorcycle license you have to be like 21 but otherwise otherwise you could just get on one of these and I’ve just done like a little bit of kind of car park riding to make sure that I’m not going to cause an accident um and

Now we’re going out on the roads so it’s oh God it’s a lot I’m very scared this is extraordinarily weird I will try to remain coherent and I will try and give you guys some information rather than just riding along EXP cling how weird it is try and make something a

Little bit more useful and I’m riding with the lovely mark from offshore performance so this is down in pool near Bournemouth and they sell Can-Ams and they also sell jet skis and boats there’s boats here it’s kind of an odd place to have a motorcycle dealership but here we

Are or remember that it’s quite wide at the front and not to take anybody out with my left wheel it’s entirely automatic as you can see there is nothing near my hands the brake is on my foot it’s on my right foot it’s basically like a car and

There’s no clutch that you have to deal with so this is another bike where I just have to let go of all of my usual habits I cannot pull the clutch in when I panic I cannot pull the brakes in when I panic I have to I have to pay

Attention to what I’m doing the brake is on my foot it’s like the rear brake on a motorcycle which you never use now I have to start using it but this is fine this is totally fine it’s quite low to the ground as well um so another thing you’ve got to

Not do is put your feet down do not put your feet down the bike will not fall over the bike is stable the bike is ground Ed apparently you would have to do something seriously seriously wrong to flip one of these woohoo oh my goodness oh God but it does

Feel like it’s going to and it’s quite windy today as well it’s quite blowy and we are next to the Sea so it’s very disconcerting it’s very pleasant I think once I get over it this will be fine these people are going kite surfing which I do not understand that is

Dangerous that looks like that looks awful oh it’s it’s quite strange because you’ve got three wheels and you can feel what’s going on in all of your Corners like you can feel if you go over a pothole in that wheel but you don’t go over a poth hole in that wheel and then

This side of you shakes so in a way it’s kind of like the amaha Nikon where each wheel is its own individual entity it’s got suspension on both sides but unlike an Nikon it will not fall over there we go look at that apparently this one will go up like not

Green Lane Green Lanes but if you’re fortunate enough to live around like a lot of um nice flat gravel roads this will this will enjoy It I tell you what if you’re antisocial and you’re riding and you’ve got one of these and your friend has one of these as well but you don’t want to talk to them this is great because you can’t pull up next to them I’m in a strange city so I don’t

Know if it’s safe to like just give it some juice woo oh my God oh my God right okay maybe we don’t do that again I mean it has juice to give but I forgot where my brakes were for a second and if any anyone’s wondering when I’m

Going to get back out on the um the side car I will at some point this is entirely different I was kind of thinking they would be similar but they aren’t they’re not similar at all this is obviously a lot more balanced and therefore it’s easier to to control from

The GetGo remember where my brakes are my brakes are on my feet they are not on my hands I cannot use my hands it has self-cancelling indicators as well which is quite handy because I forget to cancel my own indicators being a BMW Rider I don’t normally use them so

It’s nice knowing that the bike is looking after me in that respect oh for got oh God oh God oh God oh thanks so these Can-Ams they come in many different shapes and sizes well they’re all kind of the same shape but this is the 900 so I kind of wanted one

That was a little bit not scary this is like in the middle so they do a little 600 which I very much like I like the little 600 it’s a baby it reminds me of FY giv either the 900 which comes in like a rally and a sporty

Edition I think my friend Mark is on the sporty Edition I’m on the rally Edition and they do 1300 Tory things which are huge and very very scary but comfortable you know kind of on par with like I don’t know if you had a pan European or

Something is it going to make me park it they have a reverse gear as well which I suck at using cuz I suck at going backwards and anything oh God yes good did you see me almost crash it no good what are we doing are we stopping I just

Make sure you’re right thriving um so the secret these is to be quite loose in the shoulder uhhuh the more you the more you hold on to the handlebars or more it will be Skitty okay so you kind of almost want just sit there yeah kind of

Let it do its own thing let it do what it wants yeah I got to go backwards now haven’t I yeah this is how you go backwards you got a lever and you pull It Hello There we go and we put it into forwards again and out we go that wasn’t so bad I actually bossed that that was really professional what we want to do is very Loosely just don’t hold on to it I guess apparently you just got to let

It let it do what it wants to do let’s go Barbie girl ooh that’s a nice BMW we’re in Posh people land we’re near sandbanks which I think is like one of the richest places in England is he letting us go that’s that’s not going to work is it cuz we’re

Like no I’m scared no I’m scared let’s get past these cars I’m scared it’s too expensive thank you oh God right so with the potholes we just we go around them but with both wheels or you could go through the middle I guess look at that that’s nice

Sorry okay as you EAS in much like when I ride any bike that I’m scared of eventually start to like It so I guess the appeal to these is um if you always wanted a motorcycle or you just want a motorcycle in general um but you can’t have one for whatever reason or if you’re just dead scared of falling which I get you can’t fall off this you

Can still crash it though but half the problem has been wiped out already by the fact that it will not fall over so it’s fantastic if you want to avoid that or if for whatever reason you can’t ride a bike that has falling over capabilities and I guess when you’re

Used to riding things with falling over capabilities when you get on something that doesn’t it’s weird and scary but I think if you’re a first time Rider and you got on one of these straight away you’d be all right and we’ve got a hill which is

Fantastic this um this does help you get up hills apparently it’s not just going to roll back I have no idea how much these weigh but it’s okay to do Hill starts and things with I would hate to have to overtake something in this I’m sure eventually you just get used to

This width and it would be all right and you wouldn’t think twice about it but at the moment no oh no oh no I’ve lost my mate is he going to pull over woohoo hopefully no speed cameras so it’s starting to feel a little bit wobbly so I’m just going to

Like relax my shoulders a little bit and let the bike do what it wants to do even though in my head that doesn’t sound right cuz it feels like it will go where it wants but where it wants to go is probably like I don’t know into that

Car it’s fine we’re we’re getting the hang of each other I really want to pull the clutch in really it just there’s there’s nothing there’s nothing there the other thing he says is that people stare at this bike a lot so I guess if you like really really love attention this is the

One or you can wrap your bike bright pink right okay so like how how confident is he to just I suppose it’s the same as driving a car you know how wide your car is so you know if you want to just be a bastard and Barge through

Things you know what you’re going to hit and this is going to be exactly the same look how weird this is so weird oh we have to do a hill start that’s okay so you can do a hill start on these by holding the brakes throttling on waiting to hear the bike

Which is there and then going but apparently it will also just hold it for you which is nice I should be indicating really shouldn’t I keep forgetting so there’s really no need to worry about Hill starts but I do it anyway so this is a strong start to my

First day of entirely self-employed living whatever so you guys have to tell me like do you want to see more of this it’s um it’s kind of up to you I’m happy just doing whatever like I love this and I love my bike and I love all

The bikes this is a bike so I love it and I will happily ride this a lot and make whatever videos I want but tell me if if this is entertaining for you tell me if you’re interested tell me if you like it does it make you angry do you

Think it’s a real motorcycle what do you like about it are you curious like just in the comments go wild say whatever you can choose the future for me sort of now that I’m starting to relax I do feel quite good and my left leg is feeling

Quite weird because it’s not having to work like it normally has to work and that’s quite nice for it being that it is my dodgy leg so right now it just feels a bit tense because it’s expect to have to do things and it isn’t it’s just

There there’s no there’s no levers on that side there’s nothing for that leg to do it gets a day off and I myself am feeling quite relaxed now just have my emotional support imaginary clutch it’s there in spirit let’s see if we get the nod I can

We’re going to get the nod oh we got the nod hey you’re cool some emotional support imaginary front brake it’s not there Liz it isn’t there but this is where the fuel cap is it’s under oh I’m not going to do it cuz I’m going to break it but

Is is there but it slides out and then oh my God oh my God that’s all right just squeeze through take you out with my right wheel you watch oh no I’m not squeezing through that I I don’t go on then what’s the worst that can happen oh it was fine there we go if if I was in my four

Fiesta that would have been zero problem I would have just barged through they would not have had the option this is precarious so they have a handbrake look look at that that’s lovely bye in typical R1 Li fashion I forgot to film an end so here we are back at the

Marina putting some Petrol in cuz apparently Bo places have petrol stations who knew anyway thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this video I will catch up with you guys real soon goodbye