Suzuki GN250

[Grub]

Stopped to assist a broken 2006 GN250 on Paekakariki Hill Rd last night at 1735. Electrics blowing fuses (not stuff it pays to mess with). He'd called the AA and they were on the way so I spent a half hour with him chatting.

Great that I could advise him (from reading our "RoadsideAssistance" thread) that the AA had to take the bike to a place of repair. He bought it new from Wellington Motorcycles in April so it's still under warranty - therefore there is nly one place they could take it. I hope they did.

He was just a kid and all worried that they'd told him when $40 worth of petrol had been used up, he'd be paying the rest. That sounded really crap.

I hope they took it to ton and that it's now getting all fixed up. Poor kid lived in Waikanae so I'm not sure how he was going to get home.

I was very disappointed in Wellington Motorcycles "service" . I rang at 1737 (my Vodafone had signal, his Telecom didn't) and got their answer phone that said they closed at 1730. No afterhours number, no answer phone so he could leave a message, nothing ... just a hang-up. Not good.

Brett

[Steam]

it's a Soozie.

What's a Soozie?

[Grub]

What's a Soozie?

You're riding one

[Steam]

You're riding one

Can you clarify a bit more? Is Soozie slang for Cruisy, or Lazy Susan, or something? I still don't get it.

[ManDownUnder]

Can you clarify a bit more? Is Soozie slang for Cruisy, or Lazy Susan, or something? I still don't get it.

Soozie Zookie - I got one too.

[carver]

Musta been downwind, and with a tailwind

Mine's gone to around 105, maybe 110 (the speedo backlight is the latest bulb to blow so I can't see how fast I'm going at night, which is the only time I go on the motorways at speed - they're fulla cars otherwise)

i did 160 kph on my ginny!
down the bombays, with a passanger through redline!
i had the k4 ginny one of the first.
they have been making them in china for 10 years-ish.
oh- i also stoppied mine, but i had dropped the staunchions in the tripple clamps, and fitted different bars.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

If I still had my GN250 I would most definately go to GN250 Rally... They are a good learners and comuter bike :-) I use to ride mine from Auckland to Napier nearly every weekend and back... ahhh them were the days

Can I come on my VTR instead casue I no longer own one

[kensuem]

i did 160 kph on my ginny!
down the bombays, with a passanger through redline!
i had the k4 ginny one of the first.
they have been making them in china for 10 years-ish.
oh- i also stoppied mine, but i had dropped the staunchions in the tripple clamps, and fitted different bars.

You must have been in freefall!!! Did your pillion have a parachute?

[Komuter]

Yep.. no more GN250.. got one of the last! Only had her three weeks.. I think, but enjoying it. A good little starter bike.

Well, not one dealer told me it was the last run, but the dealer kindly registered mine as a 2007 GN250E, which is fantastic!

As a newbie impressionable buyer, not one dealer gave me decent details on the bike, I was astounded by the lack of detail from some sales people. And I find it odd that the best detail on the GN250 is in these forums!

Cheers
Captain Komuter

[Lissa]

Ive had my bike umm about 4 months I think... I have only done just under 3000ks on her. Then the other weekend I was riding down a country road, and all of a sudden she sounded alot louder, checked her out and the baffle had fallen off some how.... must have been going too fast Also my front head light bulb blew on the same day... Luckly I didnt have to pay anything to get it fixed... and I kinda liked the sound without the baffle anyway. Still shes a good learner bike.. but honestly can't wait to upgrade. BTW the fastest I have gone on her is 130kph with my head down.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I was very disappointed in Wellington Motorcycles "service" . I rang at 1737 (my Vodafone had signal, his Telecom didn't) and got their answer phone that said they closed at 1730. No afterhours number, no answer phone so he could leave a message, nothing ... just a hang-up. Not good.

Brett

Well Brett, it's like this.....what good would it be if we had an answer phone eh? Great....the poor guy leaves a message and waits......he'll be waiting until we open the next day and would probably have died of hypothermia mean time. We shut at 1730 (as you said), you rang at 1737. I'm really sorry you missed us, but as much as we don't like seeing people in a 'spot', you must also realise we simply cannot be avail 24/7 for every single problem some people have. In an ideal world....we'd work 7 days a week for 24 hours right? Fuck.....it's so unfair that we should want to ride our bikes at some stage too right? We already do six days a week....pretty hard to have a life as it is. ANYONE that buys a bike from me personally, has my business card.
On my business card is an after hours number. ALL of MY customers are told BY me that they're welcome to ring me 24/7 with any problem they may have.

The other sales guys don't do that, and that's fair enough. But I find it pretty unfair of you to shoot WMCC down simply because they choose to stick to certain hours.

We're a huge shop that does our best to help as many of our customers as we can, but seeing as I've been in the 'industry' for 20 years, I've seen enough 'impossible to please people' to know there's always a few that expect too much.

I've seen a lot of great posts about TSS (free 'hats off to ya' Stu) and how helpful they've been collecting people at all sorts of hours and quite often not even charging them for doing so. I honestly think that's fantastic, and hugely commendable.
BUT, when they grow a larger CUSTOMER BASE, they'll not be able to do that quite as easily as they do now.
Then you'll probably be here telling us how 'bad' you find them or anyone else that dares to try and have a life.

My suggestion to you is Brett.....open your own bike shop and show us how to do it properly. It's obviously pretty easy.

[Crasherfromwayback]

yea $12.50 is the oil filter price as I found. But not from Wellington motorcycles (the local suzuki dealership). They way overcharge for their stuff. (They had wanted $450 orc for a new GN250!)

We use Suzuki NZ recommended retail for our parts, always have, always will.
I've worked there for 12 years and we've NEVER charged $450.00 for ORC.

Show me anything that has that as proof.....or be decent enough to tell us all you're talking PLOP.

[Grub]

My suggestion to you is Brett.....open your own bike shop and show us how to do it properly. It's obviously pretty easy.

Suitably chastised and eating humble pie. I can't even remember how long ago that was posted, but everything you say is true and I agree with ll of it.

Can we kiss and make up now?

Brett

[Crasherfromwayback]

Suitably chastised and eating humble pie. I can't even remember how long ago that was posted, but everything you say is true and I agree with ll of it.

Can we kiss and make up now?

Brett

Nah mate, I don't kiss on first posts!
But seriously Brett, I'm sorry for rarking you up so badly, but it really pisses me off to read all of the shop slagging that goes on here.

All shops make mistakes, as do all humans. But customers are truely fickle.
They'll leave a shop that's provided them years of good honest service for the sake of saving $50.00 over ONE deal, then put the knife in as well.

But when they're in a bind.....lets say close to the shop they did that to, they'll have no hesitation in running back there and expect that same shop they slagged off to drop everything and help them right there and then, like they're the best customer they've ever had.

Nobody opens a motorcycle shop because they want to make money. They do it because they're avid motorcyclists that see it as a way of earning a living doing what they (and you) love.

We also need time to ride.

[Grub]

We also need time to ride.

Would it be unkind of me to mention that it's going to be a wee while before you can ride?

I just found my original post - about the kid with the Ginny blown electrics on Paekak Hill Rd. At the time I thought the answer phone may have been useful so that he could log the issue, you guys would know to expect it .... and he would have felt a lot better - I think he was nearly in tears.

Just a thought

Cheers