WORST bike shops

[dangerous]

oooooooooo - don't get me onto loaner bikes. casbolts have a 327 year old CB125 that they lent me when i had my bike in for a service. me in all my gear, iridium visor to boot riding a freakin cb125. school kids laughing at me as i went past, and to top it off, it has ducati 999s stickers on it!!!!!!

Hey..... dont hassel the CB125 my 2nd bike was one of them about 307 years ago it got me all the way to Lake Canery and back, and as for the shop.... the old bastard wouldent give ya the smell of his turd.

[fritter]

YAMAHA DIRECTED ME TO A BIKE SHOP FOR A TEST RIDE ON AN R1, I HAD A BUM BAG FULL OF MONEY , THE DEMO BIKE WAS THERE AND I SAID "HI I WOULD LIKE TO TEST RIDE THE R1 PLEASE"THE GUY LOOKED ME UP AND DOWN AND WALKED OFF LAUGHING, I WENT TO ANOTHER SHOP THEY SAID THEY CAN ARRANGE A TEST RIDE BUT ALL BIKES HAVE TO BE MODIFIED B4 LEAVING THE SHOP AS THERE WAS A CLUTCH BASKET DRIVE FAULT. OK HELLO KAWASAKI

Were you yelling at him?

[Wild Bill]

Casbolts are crap mate,
yeah I can I use a shop in Melbourne for honda and one in Brisbane for Moto Guzzi.
I find that its a damn site easier to ring them and the bits are on my door step by the end of the week rather than go into town just to find that there is no stock in store or NZ and be told that its ex Japan.
Also as far as after market parts go anything is possible in Oz eg: last month I brought some clear indercators from Oz as there is no such thing here in NZ for Honda and no doubt most other brands so I proberly have the only clear set in NZ on a VTR


Sorry Kickaha but that guy is a f***ing asshole, the prick had me arrested once, but as the cops draged me away they quitely said 'that guy is a wanker' and told me to bugger off and they will deal with him....oh and they reconmended that I dident go back there.
I think that the cops have had trouble with him before and that they had to be seen to be doing there job by hauling my arse out of there.

Hampton Honda in hornby Christchurch! Honda can be proud of this dealer! top service, top people, and you can ride the bike before you buy, and they want to help 10 out of 10.

[scumdog]

Two similar posts in about 10 minutes - ya sure ya haven't got Alzhiemers WB??

[dangerous]

Hampton Honda in hornby Christchurch! Honda can be proud of this dealer! top service, top people, and you can ride the bike before you buy, and they want to help 10 out of 10.

I know, been using them since the 80's... however the post you quoted would be about 5yrs old, they sold cages back then so no good to me for Honda parts.

[Jerry74]

Casbolts in ChCh sucks !!!!!!

Go there and get ignored

[Big Dave]

This gets my award for the sucky-est thread ever.

Face it - most people ignore nerds - it's not just bike shops. :-P

[Katman]

This gets my award for the sucky-est thread ever.

Face it - most people ignore nerds - it's not just bike shops. :-P

I wonder how the balance of story would go if bike shops started listing all the motorcyclists that had fucked them around over the years.

[Big Dave]

What do you mean they only offered you $16K as trade-in on a bandit?

[Katman]

What do you mean they only offered you $16K as trade-in on a bandit?

Sure, I'll get that throttle cable in for you sir. Pick it up (and pay for it) any year you like.

[Maioha]

What is it about bike shops. Do you have to grab sales staff by the freekin' throats to get them out from behind the counter??

WORST BIKE SHOP AWARDS for the Wellington region:

1. Motomart. Out on its own the worst. If the retail staff haven't got a mate to yack to or a mag to read, they wander out the back. I'm tempted to wheel a Duc out the door and see if that gets anybody's attention. Crap location too. An unfriendly experience in all ways.
2. ANZA in Palmerston North. More interested in selling cars, I suspect. The guy behind the counter has his feet superglued to the floor. Its only redeeming feature is it's open on Sundays.
3. Wellington Motorcycles. "OK, so you haven't got it in stock. Any chance of ORDERING ONE IN??" Mrs H had to go to Palmerston North to get a test ride on a new Marauder coz WMC didn't want to get their's wet or something. Offered her a ride on a very used Honda 750 Shadow though...
4. Phil Turnbull in Palmerston North. Although Mrs H got a test ride AND bought her new ride from PTMC she got SERIOUSLY dicked around after riding up from Wellington for her bike's first service. Sawyers/Motorad have now got this job...

I had my new tyres fitted and chain/sprockets replaced at Motomart and the service was very friendly and they were around 40% cheaper than everywhere else. I rolled my bike in with out a booking on a friday, they told me it was going to be ready on monday, about 3 hours later they called me to say that it was ready. Robert is da man.

you fullas must have had a bad day.

[325rocket]

I had my new tyres fitted and chain/sprockets replaced at Motomart and the service was very friendly and they were around 40% cheaper than everywhere else. I rolled my bike in with out a booking on a friday, they told me it was going to be ready on monday, about 3 hours later they called me to say that it was ready. Robert is da man.

you fullas must have had a bad day.

that was posted in 2004, times have changed

[Pedrostt500]

Ive rearly had bad service from any bike shop, I find the bigger the shop the less interest you get from the sales people, and generaly if the sales guy is under 25yrs they are often worth ignoring, as Ive found they will try to fit you up with what they would like to have, rather than sell me what I want.
If I do get bad service at any type of shop I will avoid going back to them unless it is absolutly nessesary.
If i get poor workmanship from a shop, first I try to reasonably work out what can be done about it. if I get a slagging off and my problem ignored, and general poor help, get a group of say a dozen friends together to arive at the shop in small groupes, over a short period of time and make happy buying noises, arive about 20 mins after your mates and in a very loud voice with out swering start to demand that the poor workmanship be put right, after about 2 mins is the que for your mates to say to whoever they are dealing with " nah sorry I think I will go else where", mean while continue your rant but watch the look on the sales peoples faces as the shop empties, and they watch their commissions walk out the door, this is best done if the owner is in.
Some time natural justic needs a little nudge.

TSS in Alice Town Lower Hutt are good guys to deal with.

[Sparky Bills]

GEEZ! I cant believe this thread was dug up...!

So what if the salesman is under 25?
I have heaps of return customers...
But find that most older guys (not women, GUYS) talk down to me as they dont think I know anything.
Get it all the time actually. They walk right past me with a grunt. Im like sweet as, Im busy with return customer orders anyway...
Lots of the 30-40+ people go straight to the older person standing behind me.

All I can say is, just consider your own attitude when talking to someone in any shop not just bike shops.
I have many people I deal with. And must say it to be an absolute pleasure to deal with most.

[Tank]

All I can say is, just consider your own attitude when talking to someone in any shop not just bike shops.
I have many people I deal with. And must say it to be an absolute pleasure to deal with most.

Its not to say that some of the above post arnt 'balanced reviews of poor service' because they probably are (from at the time).

But - things change, staff change, and I believe that generally people in shops DO want to do a good job.

Sometimes you just don't click with the sales guy / gal - but it is a two way street - and often Ive seen people being short to shop floor staff and they probably wondered why they didn't get the worlds best service.

This thread is subjective and unbalanced - and really should be binned to the realms of PD (not because its drivel) but because there are some unflattering reviews of shops that a lot of us have had awesome service at - and its a disservice to them and kiwibiker if there name gets served up with unflattering reviews (from years ago) when people are googling them etc. (PD stops that BTW)