Tank Slap - Motorcycle Forum

duke63 wrote:Its a massive amount of bike for £11k. No wonder they are selling so quickly but i feel for the poor buggers who bought one during the year as their bike just loss £5k overnight.

Sadly they did exactly the same to customers who had bought the RC8 at full price when it came out. The RC8 didn't sell well when it launched so they were still selling 2008 bikes at massive discounts in 2010. KTM had warehouses full of them. At one stage they were knocking out new ones for £8500, I think some people paid 4/5k more for them.

The 1290 is a stunning bike i imagine, but i would want to know when it was manufactured, you may end up with a 3 year old bike if they have used the original R's and converted them to GT. They may of course be new bikes from factory but there must be a catch if they are that price surely?

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Ouch. That's now £4 cheaper than a brand new one.

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Getting one of these from Triumph Birmingham for £30.

C00kiemonster wrote:
The 1290 is a stunning bike i imagine, but i would want to know when it was manufactured, you may end up with a 3 year old bike if they have used the original R's and converted them to GT. They may of course be new bikes from factory but there must be a catch if they are that price surely?

The 390s are certainly 2017 models.

The internet gossip is that there are bikes made in overseas factories which didn't sell.

DMC Birmingham had an allocation of 9 Superduke GTs and sold them all within a week. They've sold over 30 of the 390s

The showroom is packed with bikes waiting to be collected.

The staff told me that the GTs weren't being sold as buyers wanted to wait for the 2018 model as that comes with the Superduke R dash and will be in black. KTM had a load of stock left so made the deal.

No idea about the 390 but the factory pre-registered a load of them and did the deal.

cmc are doing some decent deals at the moment.

if you can find stuff in your size.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/CMCBIKES-UK?_t ... 7675.l2568

Some tyre deals that just appeared in my inbox.

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Five gloves.

Minimum of 10% of all Abba stands products - today only

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I never use mine.

I use my Abba stand every time I want to put the bike up.. I never really trusted the front stand so fell much safer, plus I've got the little tool tray thing. It's brilliant.

I use mine quite a lot and it holds up my bike over the winter when i'm not using it so much.

Use it all the time one of the best biking tools in the garage.

Ordered the front arm lift so its easier to get both wheels off at the same time.

Got the front arm Duke. Good bit of kit for check wheel bearings.

I would really like to try the Skylift but there always seems better things to spend money on for the bikes.

15% off nearly everything at the Visorshop.

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If anyone sees any cheap chain and sprocket sets give me a shout.

Just had a message saying 20% off everything today on ebay till 6pm.
Code: PNY2018
Max discount £75

I was half tempted by the Superduke GT seeing as it's a bargain.

Online quotes for insurance are coming in at over a grand.

So that's that idea dead in the water.