UNTIL last month, I had never test-driven a motorcycle or an automobile. Then, on a frigid Thursday morning two weeks ago, I had a chance to do both — at the same time.
Well, sort of.
I climbed onto a 2008 B.R.P. Can-Am Spyder Grand Sport Roadster, a sleek vehicle with three wheels — two in front and one in the back. Part car, part motorcycle and a whole lot of fun, the futuristic Spyder looks more like the love child of Henry Ford and Isaac Asimov than a creation from a Canadian maker of leisure-time vehicles.
Handsome as Brad and curvy as Angelina, the Spyder has enough cargo room to hold a pair of helmets big enough to contain the egos of both. It also has more than a few traces of the DNA found in Sea-Doo watercraft, Ski-Doo snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles also manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products, a spinoff of the maker of aircraft and rail cars.
more info and check out the photo of this really cool Tricycle
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/au.../04SPYDER.html