Omigod! What if I want to buy a new bike...

[marty]

after a 12 hr shift, facing an 80 minute drive, there was plenty of challenge without having to dodge tired tourists/drunk taxi drivers etc

[jrandom]

Hitcher, I think you should swap to pushbikes.

Then you'd be a nice guy who is sometimes pleasant, kind to children and small animals, who pays his taxes, saves his pennies, weighs under eighty kilograms, has embarrassingly strange tan lines halfway down his thighs and upper arms and spends most days with band-aids stuck over his nipples.

[marty]

wb fish - now is that hitcher or yourself you're describing?

[vifferman]

Y'know, I've read these sorts of complaints before, and it seems to me that apart from the fact that there are a lot of crap shops and/or crap 'service'persons out there, one of the things that works against prospective bike buyers is turning up in civvies. It shouldn't make any difference, but sometimes it does.

Having said that, you'd think that bike shops, with a much smaller turnover than that of their four-wheeled counterparts, would work a lot harder at trying to make a living. How many car dealerships would leave you wandering around without at least finding out what you wanted? And how many appliance shops would rish missing out on selling you at least a toaster-oven, if not a surround-dound entertainment system? The bike shops have really got to lift their game a LOT.

[jrandom]

wb fish

I am a fig of your imagination.

is that hitcher or yourself you're describing?

Me now, Hitcher in potentia.

[cowpoos]

the triumph st sprints are a awesome looking machine...I think big dave has one...similar genre to your st... I think you've made your mind up just by thinking about it... do it... u know u want to...

[Hitcher]

Me now, Hitcher in potentia.

I have never knowingly weighed less than 80kg. I can produce an affidavit from my mother that attests to an 85kg caesarian section delivery...

[Pixie]

I've never had a problem.I've bought bikes from Whites,Colemans,Mollers,Len Perry,and Bikesport,8 new bikes in all.
I go into a shop find a salesman and tell him I'm looking for a new bike and I'm checking out the deals all the dealers are offering,best one gets the sale.

[Pixie]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ixion
And how many places in NZ can you maintain 200kph for 30 minutes continuous? Name me one ? Old bikes ain't slow bikes.




some people have proof of over 200 in that stretch......but that far in half an hour shit even sitting on 140 most of the southern and splitting with a fair bit of reckless abandon it has taken me around 45 mins to get to Devo, nah I reckon it could be done, not in peak times but say a sunday afternoon....

Have you ridden up the southern motorway on a sunday afternoon,recently?
Say,in the last 15 years?

[sAsLEX]

Have you ridden up the southern motorway on a sunday afternoon,recently?
Say,in the last 15 years?

yip, live in Devo and ride with FF et al down that way, mind you heavy traffic means less chance of being chased.....

[Swoop]

just realised it's not the mercer tavern any more - the mercer mobil then.

Muddy Waters Pub... not too bad there on a hot afternoon...

[vifferman]

Mr Swoop - be careful your avatar doesn't get firebombed by those peace-loving Muslims.

[White trash]

Y'know, I've read these sorts of complaints before, and it seems to me that apart from the fact that there are a lot of crap shops and/or crap 'service'persons out there, one of the things that works against prospective bike buyers is turning up in civvies. It shouldn't make any difference, but sometimes it does.

Now this I'm not sure of as I hate talking to bikers.

[SARGE]

too bad you're not in Auckland man.. some of us give a shit ( get you off those Vanilla Ice Cream bikes...)

[James Deuce]

Right, just to put this in perspective, I've just fielded some calls from some rather upset motorcycle retail business owners, who are feeling a bit hard done by. I tend to agree with them. The right of reply isn't readily available to them on here, without them looking a bit "whingey", and I tend to agree that the thread started about ANZA but the scope(in only a few cases) soon changed to the motorcycle retail industry in general.

Now, we've all had bad retail experiences. The ONLY way to avoid it happening again is to let the people who can influence future customer/client interfaces know that you weren't happy.

However, ANZA's disregard for Hitcher's desire to find out what's happening with his bike is a bit rank, and shouldn't be regarded as acceptable. But how about doing something about it instead of whinging in an Internet forum? Next time you're in ANZA, ask how that STX1300 is coming along. My mate got hurt in the accident and he's really hanging out to ride and some information about his bike might make him feel a bit more positive about life in general.

Similarly if any other motorcycle shop has pissed you off try to think of something positive about the place, and try to raise your concerns with someone in a management position. Fair enough if you really got done, but what's the point of a long term grudge? You're a long time dead.