Sort your f*#& s#1$ out HONDA

[SPman]

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on the upside they do look like a wicked bike and should be worth the wait

It's a Honda!
If it were a Vee Two Squalo, or Mondial Piega or summint, OK, waiting is usually the only option. A mass produced Japanese bike should be available when advertised.

[Usarka]

hey dont blame the dealerships too much... i work at one
BWH told us they would be here a while ago and we are still waiting, but unfortunatly we can only go by what they tell us so we end up looking like the assholes when they dont deliver on time
on the upside they do look like a wicked bike and should be worth the wait

Are you with one of the dealers who told me they would be getting a demo in with the first shipment? And specifically are you with the dealer who told me yesterday that no one knows when the bikes will be turning up? Or with the one that told me four days ago they just got off the phone to Blue Wing who didn't have a clue.

Just been told today by blue wing that the bikes were shipped to the dealers and none of the dealers had ordered a demo.

Blue wing and honda dealers (the two non-west dealers specifically) - stick your hondas up your arse.

[vtec]

Another thing that's pissing me off about honda is the lack of a road motard or two in the range. Pure and simple laziness.

I'm a Honda man, but they are completely ignorant of the market apart from farmers.

Also, they need to step up and fill the 400cc sportsbike niche, and maybe build a new CBR250RR.

[wbks]

If only. Then maybe they can start producing mc28's again

[Richard Mc F]

Are you with one of the dealers who told me they would be getting a demo in with the first shipment? And specifically are you with the dealer who told me yesterday that no one knows when the bikes will be turning up? Or with the one that told me four days ago they just got off the phone to Blue Wing who didn't have a clue.

Just been told today by blue wing that the bikes were shipped to the dealers and none of the dealers had ordered a demo.

Blue wing and honda dealers (the two non-west dealers specifically) - stick your hondas up your arse.

Fuck you know every thing, maybe I should take your word on that, NOT!

You have no fucking idea how frustrating it is

[Usarka]

Fuck you know every thing, maybe I should take your word on that, NOT!

You have no fucking idea how frustrating it is

Yeah you got me. I made up all the conversations with the dealers who told me they were getting demo's in on the first shipment. Because i'd have so much to gain from that.

And you're wrong as a (ex potential) customer i have a very good understanding of how frustrating it is.

[MentalFacility]

Botany Honda got there first unit this week. Looks absolute sex. They say that the demo is comming in shortly, so i cant wait to take the demo out for a spin.

[Usarka]

Botany Honda got there first unit this week. Looks absolute sex. They say that the demo is comming in shortly, so i cant wait to take the demo out for a spin.

Yeah I've heard that line since august.

[nodrog:Me]

Yeah I've heard that line since august.

hey look -

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-191600687.htm

[The Stranger:Me]

hey look -

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-191600687.htm

What a fucken weird name

"Honda CB1000 R PERDATOR 2009"

[nodrog:Me]

What a fucken weird name

"Honda CB1000 R PERDATOR 2009"

you sure got a PERDY mouth there Noel.

[vifferman]

hey look -

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-191600687.htm

Those are really shit photos (they took the first one from the worngA angle, so the bike shape is distorted, and the others have scroters in the background).

[pritch]

It's a Honda!
If it were a Vee Two Squalo, or Mondial Piega or summint, OK, waiting is usually the only option. A mass produced Japanese bike should be available when advertised.

One of us is having trouble understanding what's going on here.

The Honda in question is an Italian bike. World wide demand is huge and Bluewing being outside of the Honda family will presumably be down the pecking order. (Most national importers are now owned by Honda, Bluewing is not. Yet.)

Most of the people saying they aren't going to buy one because their merest whim was not instantly satisfied would be the kind of customer known in the trade as "tyre kickers". They were never serious buyers anyway.

[vifferman]

Bluewing being outside of the Honda family will presumably be down the pecking order. (Most national importers are now owned by Honda, Bluewing is not. Yet.)

Interesting...
Is that why BlueWing do such an apparently shit job of stocking parts and bikes? I'd always thought it was just because they were crap managers....
Your post leaves some hope that "one day" they'll be taken over by Honda, and that possibly they'll either get more betterer and/or Honda will change the management.
Mebbe it's a 'Catch22': because they're crap, people don't buy Hondas, and so they don't get good supply, so they're crap, so people don't buy Hondas...

In any case, it seems that Honda either don't do market research, or don't care what customers and potential customers think or want (outside of 'race replica' bikes like the CBRs...) The exception was Honda Mrka, where the market was potentially huge, so they allowed them to design and develop Mrkn bikes like the VTR1000, GoldWing, PC800, and the crusiers (Shadows, Ace, Valkyrie, Rune, etc.)

[Pussy]

Just saw a couple of CB1000Rs at the local Honda dealer this morning... a green one and a gunmetal grey one... sweet looking bike