[SYD] Netride 21/10

Damn - same here. A chest to pin the bugger to would have helped too in my
case.

....back to gooogling Multistradas....



Dave E

 

..au:

<grin>...

As an aside, it's a beautiful day for a ride today, isn't it!

(Except for the bit where all the Good Roads(tm) are probably full of
Fair Weather Warriors and Power Rangers)


G

 

Yeah - they don't know what life is do they? You're not alive unless your
crutch has been soaked in cold water for hours on end (no pun intended), you
have ridden for hours with about 10% visibility and you can no longer feel
your fingers eh? Hehe.

It's a great day to be stuck at home working. I'm watching the sky for
another big dump so we can get out there again!

(more random twitching of the left eye...)

Cheers,
Dave E

 

..au:

You're not wrong! I had so much fun that I'm thinking of gearing
up, putting a blindfold on, and going for a walk around the block
in search of a puddle to sit in for a few hours!

And then, when the sun comes out again, we can go find someone
to talk us out of buying a BMW gloves.


What fun, hey!


G

 

Hehe - what a sight you have just painted into what could've once been
referred to as a brain.

Indeed. A phenomenal sales culture we witnessed. I've probably spent
upwards of $15k on gear with that lot so they know I'm a sad case and will
foolishly part with my cash on the most ridiculous items. Well, that's a
few hundred less I'll have to pay back to Mr Amex next month!

Can't believe there are patches of blue out there. Hoping for rain, thunder
and if we're really lucky, hail tomorrow and I'll be out and at it again!!
WHOOOO-HOOOO.

(twitch twitch).

Cheers,
Dave E (just call me Dreyfus)

 

So they weren't really pro cycles or just anti BMW clobber?

 

Hi Pete,

Mate, for a showroom as big and expensive as theirs, they sure weren't in
any rush to help me hand over a few foldables. We wandered for some time
waiting for someone to approach but they were too busy with their feet up
waxing lyrical to other poor bastards on the other end of the phone.

When someone eventually saw us - the guy we were told was responsible for
the BMW products - while still seated, he asked me if I needed help... at
the time I was mildly pissed off, holding an item in my folded arms and
facing him... no mistake - I was wanting service. He just needed me to say
it so I had to feel like I was putting him out.

A few minutes later, he told me that the Beemer Goretex waterproof summer
gloves were unsuitable for me in rain in summer and that he just rides with
motorcross gloves. By now we had had enough and buggered off. Those gloves
looked/felt great but I will buy them elsewhere.

I think if I'm going to buy a Beemer, I'll be getting it from the guys in
Port Macquarie (Rock Motorcycles) who have already demonstrated that they're
very customer oriented and as I recall, their mechanic has won awards all
over the world for his BMW work. Bloody great guys and you can testride the
Oxley!! WHOOO-HOOO.... (more twitching).

This is typical of the Ducati/exotic bike dealerships here from my
experience. They're so far up themselves that those of us who expect to be
treated like a customer at the very least end up giving up and going home or
heading to a Jap bike showroom (where things are not as bad but not stellar
either).

So there you have it... Procycles, who have a very friendly downstairs
section, and whose owners are truly lovely people have an upstairs (BMW)
section that is seemingly out of touch, arrogant and don't want to be
disturbed by you or me.

</rant>

Cheers,
Dave E

 

I'd left the number-plate frame *on* my new (to me) bike
largely on the basis that it didn't say "Sydney Shitty
Sodamichaels" but also 'cos I'd heard that the aforementioned
didn't suck. After yesterday's experience though, I've a
good mind to hang the frame on the wall in the shed beside
the SCM one.


In fairness tho, the 'downstairs' folks seemed to be really
very nice.

Upstairs on the other hand, I got to be a fly on the wall
whilst one salesdroid told a bloke with a $200 pair of gloves
in one hand and a credit card in the other that he didn't know
anything about 'clothing' and that he'd have to wait for the
other guy (on the phone right now) to help him before proceeding
to work very hard at talking another punter out of buying a BMW
bike. Right after that I watched another ('the other guy')
salesdroid work equally hard at talking the aforementioned guy
out of buying the BMW gloves he had selected before rushing
back to the phone.

I guess there's two takes: Maybe the droids gave a shit
about aligning customers with "what's right for them", maybe
they were just as lazy as shit. It's hard to tell.

They didn't get their $200 though (or their $26,000 for
that matter).

G

 

..au:
[...]

Dave, I'd leave the "</rant>" bit out of it. You were almost as
toned down in your assessment as I was in mine (and to be Frank
(and Ernest) I toned it down 'cos I didn't want to upset the
obviously good relationship you have going with downstairs).
Except that the (BMW) bit upstairs *must* be an unrelated franchise
that is unconnected with the obviously very decent folks downstairs,
I'd be half inclined to print-and-fax both posts to the boss.

"A bunch of fuckin' wankers" would be getting *marginally* closer
to the truth, but still an understatement.


G

 

True true. Perhaps I'll give Anne a bell on Monday. A hell of a nice woman
and one I've gotten to know pretty well over the years. As the owner, I'm
sure she'll be interested in our perceptions. She was also there for all my
transactions.

However, if I am to buy a Bim, I will be going to Rock Motorcycles (via that
eye twitching combo of the Thunderbolt's and the Oxley!) Almost getting
movement in the dacks just thinking about it.... how good it is Pete???
(The Oxley ya dirty bastard).

Cheers,
Dave E
PS. You NEED to head that way for a spin GB. Will keep you posted. Oi oi
oi

 

Come to think of it the only time I've been there I had trouble locating a
sales droid for a 'price' on a pair of pants, to the extent of mistaking
the only other person visible in the showroom, apart from us four
'potential' customers, as one. Meanwhile the nice folk downstairs were
preparing a Rocket 3 for a test ride up the Old Road. We figured that was
what the free coffee and biscuits was for!

 

It gets _my_ rocks off!

 

Your rocks is none of my damn business...

G

 

If you were wandering around they probably didn't see much urgency. Did
you try standing in front of the person on the telephone looking like
you needed assistance?

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Good point Nev but we were certainly looking like we were needing help.
After a 5 min wait in front of the gloves rack, GB stood tapping his watch
while I pulled off a dozen gloves and started to throw them at other
customers. Soon GB got the shits and pissed all over a bike in the middle
of the showroom while I ripped all my clothes off and began screaming jihad
at the bastards on the phone. Still no reaction so we knocked their 2 GSs
over and started to kick the shit out of the other customer in the showroom.

About 5 mins after that the guy who doesn't like BMW gear, and who
coincidentally is the BMW gear salesman asked if we needed help.

Cheers,
Dave E

 

..au:

... and that's when Dave took a can of mace from his handbag,
sprayed the BMW gear salesman square in the eyes with it, and
ran screaming from the showroom.


G, I won't mention the fire if you don't Dave!

 

It was a full ten inches of water across the road by the time
Pete told the story to Dave and I!

G

 

It wouldn't be the first time 2 - 3 inches have 'grown' to 10 inches in the
story telling...




Actually, a few months ago I was hawked as I walked past a foot massage
place in Bangkok. I had to ask the obvious and asked if it mattered that I
wasn't quite a foot, only 11 inches... boom boom

Cheers,
Dave E

 

Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn fellas!

 

Truth? Whaddat?

Cheers,
Dave E
(You-know-who would've killed me...)