Not just for touring, the liquid-cooled, 1,330cc Rotax ACE inline-Triple also knows how to get up and go. (Photos by Aaron Crane)

I haven?t been on a vehicle with three wheels since I was a kid tearing around my family?s back patio on my Big Wheel. And I?ve never been on one powered by something other than my legs, so I was definitely curious about the experience of riding a 2023 Can-Am Spyder RT Sea-to-Sky.   

If I were a betting man, I?d guess BRP, Can-Am?s parent company, gets tired of hearing, ?It?s not a motorcycle.? Well, after 1,100-plus miles on the top-of-the-line touring model, which included about 900 miles roundtrip from Southern California to the high desert of southern Utah and back, as well as taking it for a spin with several passengers, including my 11-year-old son, my ?gradually coming around to anything less than four wheels? wife, and my 77-year-old father with Parkinson?s, I believe the Spyder defies a lot of categories.? 
Down by the Seaside | Can-Am Spyder RT 

Before taking the Sea-To-Sky home from Torrance, California, I rode it to meet up with Kevin Duke, the EIC of our sibling publication American Rider, in Seal Beach for dinner. This is where the STS felt right at home: by the sea. I could envision myself regularly hopping on and cruising around any number of beach communities with some tunes cranking from the very capable six-speaker BRP Audio Premium sound system. Whether going up the coast or just to the ...