Thumbs up to Bill at Budget Motorcycle Services ChCh.

[onearmedbandit]

At the car dealership I work at we trade anything, including bikes. And recently I've traded a couple little gems. One of them sold on the weekend, and we needed to put a new tyre on it. The local agent for this model quoted us 5 days to get the tyre in, which was just too long as we needed to deliver it tomorrow. A quick call to Budgets and a tyre was sorted on the spot. However, this is not the reason for the thumbs up. See we're a car yard, and no one but me has a bike license. And I can't ride the bike, as it isn't set up for my ah 'specials needs' shall we say. So Bill popped down to the warrant shop, rode the bike back to his shop, fitted the tyre and is dropping the bike back tomorrow. Fantastic service.

Now I'm not saying that Bill will do that for every customer (like I said I'm pretty special) but in an age where most people go out of their way to complain so quickly I figure it's the right thing to go out of my way to praise.

[Monsterbishi]

No arguments from me either, will be in there myself in a week-ish for some fresh Dunlop goodness...

[Oakie]

Yep. I've spent a fair amount of money there and always felt well looked after.

[jellywrestler]

my girlfriend went to her gynaecologist the other day and he gave her the 'thumbs up' apparantly

[McFatty1000]

I have found the same thing at budget myself - bought a new tyre for my CB when I had it and found the front brake pads needed changing too, ended up spending about an hour and a half sorting it out with me as the caliper was playing up but got it done in the end and was really pleased with the service I got. I go there for most of the bits and pieces I need now

[Oakie]

my girlfriend went to her gynaecologist the other day and he gave her the 'thumbs up' apparantly

Well she told you it was the 'gynaecologist' ... :Pokey:

[nodrog]

Surely its only a 1 thumb up?

[onearmedbandit]

Surely its only a 1 thumb up?

Ooo good point. Sorry Bill, one thumb up.

[G Murphy]

I can recommend them too!. I had a tyre change on my Beemer a while ago and they can be a prick to change due to the very close spacing between the valve and spokey things. Bill had to ruin one of his valve pullers just to get the damn thing out. Took ages too.

But not one word of complaint and just the regular charge as well as lots of friendly advice on other matters.

Cheers Bill

Gerard

[Muppet]

I have nothing but praise for the people at Budget. They fit a new tyre to my bike with only 20 minutes notice. They both ride bikes and have a Corgi. Bike and dogs? That's two ticks in my book:yes:

[MyGSXF]

Yep.. used to go in there back in the day (when I lived in ChCh) when Trev had the place.. back in the 90's.. :facepalm: always got well looked after! & the same from Bill.. even had stuff freighted up to Nelson! :wings: Great to hear they are still goin strong after all the shyte that's happened down in ChCh!!! :Punk:

[gammaguy]

Bills a good guy,hes always good to deal with

went for a ride with him and a few other mates a while back and hes also not a slouch,even on the big blue bus:shutup:

best fun I had on a BMW since ages ago.

[rossirep]

Yep.. used to go in there back in the day (when I lived in ChCh) when Trev had the place.. back in the 90's.. :facepalm: always got well looked after! & the same from Bill.. even had stuff freighted up to Nelson! :wings: Great to hear they are still goin strong after all the shyte that's happened down in ChCh!!! :Punk:

are you for real..???? trev was a grumpy old cunt and i dont know anyone who liked dealing with him.. thats why dave at cycletreads got all the business back in the day. ;-) but bill and the rest are good to deal with so il buy off them if i need anything. even if he did have a lil mishap with my old bike in the shop a few years ago.. lol,

[Rhys]

are you for real..???? trev was a grumpy old cunt and i dont know anyone who liked dealing with him.. thats why dave at cycletreads got all the business back in the day. ;-) but bill and the rest are good to deal with so il buy off them if i need anything. even if he did have a lil mishap with my old bike in the shop a few years ago.. lol,


If you had a pair of boobs he may have given you beter service

[rossirep]

If you had a pair of boobs he may have given you beter service

sadly i dont think so, he was the grumpiest mother ducker you would ever come across

but a pair of boobs would be handy and that has nothing to do with motorbikes... ;-)

[MIXONE]

sadly i dont think so, he was the grumpiest mother ducker you would ever come across

but a pair of boobs would be handy and that has nothing to do with motorbikes... ;-)

Shit if I had a pair of boobs I'd get absolutely nothing done.I would spend all day just playing with them.:love:

[Kickaha]

sadly i dont think so, he was the grumpiest mother ducker you would ever come across

I didn't ever really have that problem with him, but I always knew what I wanted before I got there and didn't waste any time while I was there, helped that I did him a few favours for him through work to I guess

You wouldn't think looking at him he was fairly good racer back in the day

[Oakie]

Might even pop down there this morning to see if they can sell me some sort of overjacket for rainy days. (Mine has literally fallen to pieces.)