The custom Spyder area at homecoming event in Austria.

Photo: Derreck Roemer

The custom Spyder area at homecoming event in Austria.

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  • The custom Spyder area at homecoming event in Austria.
  • Unlike the Spyder RT, the RS doesn't have a useable windscreen, heated seat or heated handgrips, but it's traction control system and ABS (both standard) make for safe riding on rain-slicked roads.
  • A great turnout in nasty weather, but where is everyone?
  • An all you can eat hot and cold buffet with complimentary beer or wine is hard to turn down at the best of times.
  • Andrey Utenkov rode 3550 km from Murmansk Russia to be at the event, garnering him the hard butt award for longest journey.
  • An RS belonging to a member of St. Petersburg's Bombardier Club.
  • Koen Bonny, self proclaimed Spyder ambassador from Eeklo, Belgium.
  • Miroslaw Weindich, paralyzed from the waist down, asked his friend Rafal Kozlovvski to help him modify his Spyder RT so he could ride like he did before his injury.
  • Weindich's custom made wheelchair mount allows him to come and go on his Spyder as he pleases without anyone's help.
  • Weidich's wheelchair mounting brackets were fabricated in his workplace machine shop.
  • Once the rain subsided and the free lunch was gone, people came out again to look at the custom machines.
  • A custom Spyder RS from Spain.
  • Not surprisingly spider imagery is a popular motif among the custom jobs.
  • This RS rolling gas station ad took third place in the custom competition.
  • This French owned RT took second place in the custom competition, behind the Italian RS entry beside it in the background.
  • Italian custom bike builder Franco Longo brought 3 Spyder RS entries to Austria. This isn't the one he claimed first prize with, but it did do some great burnouts.
  • Parading through the countryside.
  • The Spyder parade winding its way through a nearby town.
  • A group ride through the Austrian hills.
  • Our Spyder convoy draws a crowd of tourists wanting to know what exactly it was we were riding.