New shop in Hamilton.

[tri boy]

Open from the looks.
Aprillia/Husky dealer just up from Boyds on the service lane. (about where super cross cycles were).
Don't know anything about the crew, but good luck to them.
Talking to John at Boyds through the week, and he says it's the most competitive (price wise) the industry has been for many years.
He should know.

So if Apes, and Huskies float ya boat, maybe pop in next time your in cow town.

[steve_t]

Didn't catch a name of the shop by chance?

[tri boy]

Didn't catch a name of the shop by chance?

Not yet. Lots of painting going on inside etc.
Was the premices of a costume hire place,so a bit of a refit is required.
I'll try and grab a name this week.

[Vinz0r]

Oooo exciting! Some competition might drive prices down a little

[Quasievil]

Oooo exciting! Some competition might drive prices down a little

Im hoping that prices will go up actually.
Good to see there are still a pool of people willing to invest into the motorcycle business tho (dumarses)

[CRF119]

Talking to John at Boyds through the week, and he says it's the most competitive (price wise) the industry has been for many years.
He should know.

I think every market is like that these days. Every thing needs to be on special to sell and to have specials you lose margin but at least the stock is gone.

Doesn't help when you have 6 stores on the same road and Honda only 5 mins away.

Also website can run at lower margins and the stores need to compete with that but provide a much better service for info and fitment of products.

[Max Preload]

Not yet. Lots of painting going on inside etc.
Was the premises of a costume hire place,so a bit of a refit is required.

If other bike shops are anything to go by I'd say they'd be able to just slip on the clown costumes and open the fuck'n doors!

[Vinz0r]

Went by the other day and they had a few aprilias out the front. Seemed to have a bit of aprilia branding around the place too.

[sil3nt]

Went and had a look today. Bunch of dirtbikes in a small white room with an RSV4R out front as well as an ST2.

Very small and not exactly in the best place.

[Damantis]

I'll be happy if the labour costs for servicing get " competitive " sometime soon. I'd pay a lawyer $90 / hour, but I think that's pretty steep for a grease-monkey ( possibly an apprentice ) especially when it usually takes them several hours to get anything done. Maybe this is a whole other thread, but does anyone know of a bike shop that doesn't charge out like a wounded Bull?

[CRF119]

#I'll be happy if the labour costs for servicing get " competitive " sometime soon. I'd pay a lawyer $90 / hour, but I think that's pretty steep for a grease-monkey ( possibly an apprentice ) especially when it usually takes them several hours to get anything done. Maybe this is a whole other thread, but does anyone know of a bike shop that doesn't charge out like a wounded Bull?

To bad lawyers cost more then $90 an hour. I don't think $90 per hour is all that bad as long as it's a good mechanic working at a good rate of speed not txting most of the day.

[Mental Trousers]

$90 an hour is pretty standard I think. Personally, I wouldn't go near a lawyer that charged $90 an hour.

I'll have to stop in there sometime and have a nosey.

[Damantis]

To bad lawyers cost more then $90 an hour. I don't think $90 per hour is all that bad as long as it's a good mechanic working at a good rate of speed not txting most of the day.

That's what I mean. You get charged 90 bucks an hour and it takes DAYS for them to do about 4 hours work on it cos they are probably working on 5 other bikes at once. Half the time, the work is done by an apprentice ( just as most legal work is actually done by legal secretaries etc ) I look at the cost of getting things done, and usually think, REALLY? if someone had all the required parts at hand and set out to do what is required from start to finish, THAT'S actually how long it took them to get the job done? I mean, if they are doing this work all the time, why does it take so long to pull something apart, replace the bits that need replacing, and put it back together? Maybe I'm just cynical, but I think most shops inflate the labour costs considerably.

[Geeen]

Open from the looks.
Aprillia/Husky dealer just up from Boyds on the service lane. (about where super cross cycles were).
Don't know anything about the crew, but good luck to them.
Talking to John at Boyds through the week, and he says it's the most competitive (price wise) the industry has been for many years.
He should know.

So if Apes, and Huskies float ya boat, maybe pop in next time your in cow town.

Was talking to him last week, he ran a shop in the UK with the same brands. He's not going too far into accessories, but paying more attention to bike set up, sales and service. Said no Huskie will leave the shop on standard settings. Sounds promising......

[AllanB]

Was talking to him last week, he ran a shop in the UK with the same brands. He's not going too far into accessories, but paying more attention to bike set up, sales and service. Said no Huskie will leave the shop on standard settings. Sounds promising......

Interesting -I think that used to be called customer service.

Here's something that surprises me. Buy a new road bike - good specs or even top specs. Now everyone says 'set the rider sag' for modern suspenders. I'm thinking if you dropped 20k or more on the bike surely the shop will take the time to set this up for you when you pick up the bike. It should not take an experienced workshop long. But I'm wrong.