fimpBIKES
06-07-2007, 03:24 PM
hi there
my friend is looking to buy a bike, new
no-one in newcastle has demo models we can try 'cept kwakasucky
we had a go at the 600 and thou ninja about a month back (did a topic at the time)
i was keen to go down to Procycles at Hornsby cos they stock Suzuki, KTM, Triumph and BMW
so i was envisioning a test go on a superduke, 675, gixxer 750, thou and maybe a RS1000R
i bought my SV650 off procycles years back, and at the time they were VERY helpful (although their aftersales service left me high and dry and out of pocket a few grand afterwards....)
they even let my non-full licensed friend tag along on my ride on board a used 600ninja, in damp conditions with no supervision
seems they have changed their tune a bit
i just called em up
told em my friend and i wanted to come down tomorrow and test ride a gsxr750 and 1000 cos newcastle didnt have any available
he asked what i was looking at buying and i said i wasnt but my friend wanted either a new middleweight or litre sportsbike
i didnt get much further than that unfortunately
he started listing off prices to replace crashed motorcycles and that they didnt give "joy-rides"
so i might have caught this bloke on a bad day or whatever,
i explained that i had bought a bike off them before and i had no intention of crashing his bikes
than he tells me some more about how they are in the business of SELLING bikes, not JOY-RIDES
he finally starts asking for the name of my friend
had me thinking "WTF" for a second
but explains there is a test day on the 29th
i give him our details, thinking im actually getting somewhere
i ask "so what brands are available on the 29th?"
"just the suzuki's"....
WHY!!?!?!?!
i thought the whole point of having big shops with lots of bike brands would be that u could do back to back tests of the different brands
we are already having to travel 140km to tell the diff between a ninja and a gixxer with FAR to much time in between to make a proper comparison
does ANYONE know of a shop that will actually let me ride a FRIKKIN bike!!!!!! [}:)]
my friend is looking to buy a bike, new
no-one in newcastle has demo models we can try 'cept kwakasucky
we had a go at the 600 and thou ninja about a month back (did a topic at the time)
i was keen to go down to Procycles at Hornsby cos they stock Suzuki, KTM, Triumph and BMW
so i was envisioning a test go on a superduke, 675, gixxer 750, thou and maybe a RS1000R
i bought my SV650 off procycles years back, and at the time they were VERY helpful (although their aftersales service left me high and dry and out of pocket a few grand afterwards....)
they even let my non-full licensed friend tag along on my ride on board a used 600ninja, in damp conditions with no supervision
seems they have changed their tune a bit
i just called em up
told em my friend and i wanted to come down tomorrow and test ride a gsxr750 and 1000 cos newcastle didnt have any available
he asked what i was looking at buying and i said i wasnt but my friend wanted either a new middleweight or litre sportsbike
i didnt get much further than that unfortunately
he started listing off prices to replace crashed motorcycles and that they didnt give "joy-rides"
so i might have caught this bloke on a bad day or whatever,
i explained that i had bought a bike off them before and i had no intention of crashing his bikes
than he tells me some more about how they are in the business of SELLING bikes, not JOY-RIDES
he finally starts asking for the name of my friend
had me thinking "WTF" for a second
but explains there is a test day on the 29th
i give him our details, thinking im actually getting somewhere
i ask "so what brands are available on the 29th?"
"just the suzuki's"....
WHY!!?!?!?!
i thought the whole point of having big shops with lots of bike brands would be that u could do back to back tests of the different brands
we are already having to travel 140km to tell the diff between a ninja and a gixxer with FAR to much time in between to make a proper comparison
does ANYONE know of a shop that will actually let me ride a FRIKKIN bike!!!!!! [}:)]