dealer query

Anyone have any experience of Daytona Motorcycles near Ruislip?

 

No. But fwiw, I thought they were/are the same as HGB Motorcycles. The
websites for both look very similar, althouhg there doesn;t seem to be
a formal connection.

Kiran

 

They seem friendly enough.

So, is it to be a Ducati or a Piaggio?

 

Yes. And Insider knowledge too... what are you thinking of using them
for?...

Mail me: mrichards at freezone dot co do uk

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, darsy amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Yeah, dia-fucking-bollical.

Google for the saga of me leaving my bandit there and Pip and Loz trying
to collect it some weeks/months later.

 

Ducati Monster S4.

 

Sweet. So, when you're picking it up, you'll be swinging by SW14 on the way
back then?

 

My Blackbird was bought brand new off the Showroom floor at HGB's. It
has a Daytona numberplate on it.

Daytona is, iirc, their non-Honda franchise.
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| ___ Salad Dodger
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_/_____\_ GL1500SE-V/CBR1100XX-X/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..78875.../...19731.../..31242.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 PM#5 WG*
'^' RBR 2005: Abandoned - Bronze Award.

 

Whinging Courier says...

I agree with everything WC says. Disorganised and most unhelpful cunts,
the lot of them at all 3 branches.

 

Oh good, someone else who thinks theyre a shower of shits... OK for bits
and bobs, but I wouldnt trust them with anything more than an MOT... Rip off
merchants on the tyre's and a shambolic bunch of cunts in every other
respect. Mate of mine used to work there, and Ive heard all sorts of
nightmarish shit that goes down there.

Dont go near.

 

don't get too exited, it's not going to be a new one (note the lack of
"R" in the model name), and judging by the comments in this thread, not
going to be this particular machine either.

 

fair enough. It's not like there's a lack of 2nd-hand Monster S4s out
there in any case.

 

It doesn't matter where you buy it from though, it's still going to break
down within a week

 

you don't think I'm actually going to ride it, do you?

 

and:

CooperB Motorcycles in Northants

or

Pegasus Motorcycles in Reading

or

Moto Uno in Aldershot

?
ta.

 

Bloody hell. That was a good response - in a not good but bloody
useful sort of way.

And yes, in my one experience of them the term "shambles" fits the
(dis)organisation like a glove.

 

as chance would have it, I've just had lunch with Simon, and he was
boasting about how he'd done "almost a thousand miles" on the RSV he
bought...back in May.

 

Only came accross them when I was buying my 6R years ago. They made it
so difficult to buy the bike (cash in hand too, no px) that I went
elsewhere. Seemed like a bunch of arrogant cunts tbh.

Kiran

 

Remind me, why did you sell you upgrade your Mille, just before the
last one's warranty ran out?

;-)

Kiran

 

About the same as I've done on the GSXR since then.