Why are motorcycle shops closed on Sundays?

[tri boy]

Actually, they are open 24hrs a day, seven days a week.
Example. Last Sunday morning I ordered 2 brake rotors and pads from Wemoto in the UK, (170 quid all up. EBC)
Finished my morning coffee.
Parts arrived five working days later, with no less than 5 tracking emails sent.

I was not a fan of purchasing online, and bypassing the local shops, but when I get that type of service, and save about $500, then I think I will shop on Sundays more often.

Tri boys prediction for bike shops over the next 2-5yrs is bleak.MHO

[Maha]

I dont work weekends...have no need to and haven't done for over 10 years.
Not working on weekend days is my second hobby (1st one is not mowing the lawns)
Thank god I dont work in retail.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Tri boys prediction for bike shops over the next 2-5yrs is bleak.MHO

Then Tri boy will have to learn how to repair his own motorcycle and fit his own tyres too. Buying his bike from overseas will be fun, as will getting warranty work done for it.

[slofox]

s'easy - all the bike shop dudes are out riding on Sunday. Only day they get to gather "work relevant experience, the better to serve the customer..."

[tri boy]

Then Tri boy will have to learn how to repair his own motorcycle and fit his own tyres too. Buying his bike from overseas will be fun, as will getting warranty work done for it.

Tri boy can do all of the above.
Left the industry a few years back, as tri boy could already see the writing on the wall.
Motorcycles are the same as any other disposable appliance now a days. Thing is, most other appliance stores have been opening on Sundays for near on a decade already.
The retail motorcycle industry is screwed if they do not adapt. MHO

[Crasherfromwayback]

Tri boy can do all of the above.
Left the industry a few years back, as tri boy could already see the writing on the wall.
Motorcycles are the same as any other disposable appliance now a days. Thing is, most other appliance stores have been opening on Sundays for near on a decade already.
The retail motorcycle industry is screwed if they do not adapt. MHO

Yeah thought I'd seen posts from you before that may've mentioned you'd been involved!

This Sunday thing has been done to death here, and I congratulate any shop that does well out of trading on Sundays.

The day I have to work on a Sunday...is the day I'll leave the motorcycle trade as well.

Fuck that.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yes I did as it happens but not due to the business.

Sorry to hear that. I feel pretty burnt out mentally doing the hours I do.

[merv]

The day I have to work on a Sunday...is the day I'll leave the motorcycle trade as well.

Fuck that.

Ya can't miss going to church can ya!

[sil3nt]

Sundays are the only days i have off usually. Have often thought of going to Auckland to look at the bike shops before i remember they are all closed

No big deal saves me money.

[iYRe]

Ya can't miss going to church can ya!

ironically.. alot of church going bikers go to church on days other than sunday :P (ie, a weeknight) for that very reason..

Sunday is often the only day that you can ride..

I have a few mates in retail, and they are lonely riders... (because they ride on weekdays, when they get them off).

[merv]

As for the weekend and bike shops, finally we had a sunny day in Welly yesty and we'd received the rego renewal for Mrs merv's DR650SE. We'd been away last weekend but being home this weekend I thought cool I'll take the bike down to VTNZ for its WOF in the arvo coz these days you can't rego if the WOF has expired. Porirua VTNZ is open to 4pm on Saturdays.

Bugger me even though its been on battery tender all its life the battery decides to quit and wouldn't crank the bike into life for the first time ever. So I guess they die eventually though for us at 7 years it was a bit young for that. No amount of charging fixed this problem so I gave up about 3pm on that.

Now where and when to get a battery? Of course all the bike shops were shut by then yesty arvo so today Repco Porirua got my business - new battery now fitted, bike started and I'll go get the WOF next weekend.

We don't use our bikes often and tend to do so on a whim depending on the weather and I said on that long thread about bike shops, if you aren't open when we have that whim we go on and spend our money somewhere else or on something else.

[DrunkenMistake]

Simple answer,

Motorcycling = Religion
Motorcycling religions Sabbath = Sunday.

[scott411]

the basic answer is that it does not pay for itself, and the strain on staff is to much, and since most staff in motorcycle stores are riders themselves they tend to go out riding,

Cycletreads and Motomail are the exceptions, but if everyone started doing it they would struggle as well, i know alot of shops that have all tried Sunday's and all have given it up because it does not pay for itself, it does not generate enough new business to make it worth while,

and i am with Crasher, if it comes to working sundays, i will be out of motorcycle retail as well,

another thing is late nights, we tried late nights last summer, and it did not really work either, a few people came in but they were not people that were new, it did not pay for itself,

[SS90]

We don't use our bikes often and tend to do so on a whim depending on the weather and I said on that long thread about bike shops, if you aren't open when we have that whim we go on and spend our money somewhere else or on something else.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but, simply, this last paragraph sums up the point.

By your own admission, you don't use your bikes much, and, by using a battery minder, EXPECT LONGER THAN 7 YEARS! From a battery...... And STILL want bike shops to cater for you?

Sorry Merv, but, quite simply if anyone was to use this example to develop a business model, it would either be The Salvation Army, Bernados, or the S.P.C.A
Its just the reality.

Margins are small (and decreasing all the time), just be grateful bike shops exist at all.

[Str8 Jacket]

TSS Red Baron, Lower Hutt will be open on Sunday's in a couple of weeks. They're moving just a couple of doors up towards the bridge/ railway tracks, should be a massive shop!