wanker bike shops!!!!

**Slapnuts** · 6th March 2006, 14:06

I am spewing

bloody wanker bike shops. I was booked in to go for my full licence March 6th 12:45pm ($115.00 later:slap

, all set to borrow a bike from the local bike shop, dude at the shop said "give us a couple of days notice before your test so i can make sure the bike is ready", sweet, or so i thought. I rang a week before, then last Friday, and again Monday morning and confirmed i would be picking up the bike at 12:30. Well i get there at 12:35, giving myself 10mins to atach the L plate and get to know the bike, i stroll into the shop, dude says " Hey, hows it going, the bikes just down at the VTNZ getting a warrent, it'll be about half an hour" i said "thats great, my tests in five minutes" to which he replied " oh.....umm.... i thought it was 1:30pm" i said "FUCK!!!!" and asked to borrow the phone. To cut a long story short, i couldn't go for my licence as i didnt get the bike, and the testing officer wouldn't wait half an hour, i explained that i had been riding for 17 years and the licence was a formality, and that i had a ZX9R that was legal and if i could use that. Well she went and made a phone call and came back with a big fat NO. So i would just like to say hi

to the motorcycle shop (you know who you are) and Fuck you very much!

**imdying** · 6th March 2006, 14:08

Small claims court, you can recoup your costs from the shop

(if you think you can prove it, and have a case)

/edit: Actually, proof isn't the big thing, essentially you only have to convince the adjudicator that you're telling the truth... asumming they dispute the whole 'I'll pick it up at 12:30' thing.

**Str8 Jacket** · 6th March 2006, 14:12

Originally Posted by imdying

/edit: Actually, proof isn't the big thing, essentially you only have to convince the adjudicator that you're telling the truth... asumming they dispute the whole 'I'll pick it up at 12:30' thing.

Im not disagreeing with you, but would he have to had paid the shop money for borrowing the bike before proceeding with small claims?... Its just that he didnt mention that he was or had paid the shop any $$? Cause if it was just a "lender" free of charge they may not be liable to pay for the costs of the licence....?

**marty** · 6th March 2006, 14:12

so it's the bike shop's fault that you gave yourself 10 minutes, after 17 years of procratinating, to pick up, ride, and get settled onto a brand new bike on which to sit a test?

whatever. how much did you pay the bike shop to have the bike ready on time?

**imdying** · 6th March 2006, 14:13

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Im not disagreeing with you, but would he have to had paid the shop money before proceeding with small claims?... Its just that he didnt mention that he was or had paid the shop any $$?

Indeed, I have assumed that he prepaid

**Str8 Jacket** · 6th March 2006, 14:15

Originally Posted by imdying

Indeed, I have assumed that he prepaid

Yeah, i'd assumed that too, however all he said was that he'd got a lender, in which case if he wasnt paying the shop for getting the warrant etc then its really all his own fault....

**imdying** · 6th March 2006, 14:16

I actually thought this might have been another Casbolts thread

Ten minutes would be heaps though... I'm certain that most riders here could take their test on any 250 with minimal seat time to aquaint themselves and pass no problems at all. Regardless, that he booking it, and then reconfirmed it, and still it wasn't ready isn't his fault. imho of course.

**ManDownUnder** · 6th March 2006, 14:17

Originally Posted by marty

so it's the bike shop's fault that you gave yourself 10 minutes, after 17 years of procratinating, to pick up, ride, and get settled onto a brand new bike on which to sit a test?

whatever. how much did you pay the bike shop to have the bike ready on time?

Time is NOT the issue here.

The bike was due to be at the shop, arrangements were made (and paid for) on that basis... not good.

See if they can make it up somehow. Get you some kit as cost... so you save as much as you lost... and get some good gear out of it - it's a win win...

Don't get aggro if you can avoid it.

**imdying** · 6th March 2006, 14:17

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Yeah, i'd assumed that too, however all he said was that he'd got a lender, in which case if he wasnt paying the shop for getting the warrant etc then its really all his own fault....

Ahh, I've had a few friends need 250s to do licenses on, they've all have to more or less 'rent' a bike. Makes a difference if it was 'lent' though.

**Slapnuts** · 6th March 2006, 14:19

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Im not disagreeing with you, but would he have to had paid the shop money for borrowing the bike before proceeding with small claims?... Its just that he didnt mention that he was or had paid the shop any $$? Cause if it was just a "lender" free of charge they may not be liable to pay for the costs of the licence....?

They were gonna charge me $30 for the lend.

**Str8 Jacket** · 6th March 2006, 14:19

Post edited. Sorry Slapnuts I was wrong. So yeah you should probably have a wee word to them and try to come to some compromise like MDU said.....

**Slapnuts** · 6th March 2006, 14:23

Originally Posted by marty

so it's the bike shop's fault that you gave yourself 10 minutes, after 17 years of procratinating, to pick up, ride, and get settled onto a brand new bike on which to sit a test?

whatever. how much did you pay the bike shop to have the bike ready on time?

You sound like you have a bike shop. its the bike shops fault after telling them three times that i needed the bike at 12:45pm on the 6th of March, INCLUDING THE SAME DAY!

**DemonWolf** · 6th March 2006, 14:23

/RantModeOn I normally dont rant and rave.. but I'll just put my 2c in.. that the testing stations don't try and reschedule as much as they could IMHO. well its been my case they dont.. nor try to even. /RantModeOff

**marty** · 6th March 2006, 14:24

i disagree. time is the whole issue. i just don't think that 15 minutes is enough to sort out any little problems that may have eventuated. what if it did have a wof, but one of the bulbs was blown? 5 minutes dicking around would ensue.

no i don't own a bike shop, i just don't agree with the slagging off of the bike shop after they appear to have been doing what seems to have been a favour. if he had have rung them 30 minutes earlier just to triple check, if the occasion was so important, then this conversaion would be 'woohoo! got my restricted!!'

**Slapnuts** · 6th March 2006, 14:24

Originally Posted by imdying

Small claims court, you can recoup your costs from the shop

(if you think you can prove it, and have a case)

/edit: Actually, proof isn't the big thing, essentially you only have to convince the adjudicator that you're telling the truth... asumming they dispute the whole 'I'll pick it up at 12:30' thing.

Not looking at small claims, just pissed off a some peoples lack of competence.