StMarks wrote:Fwiw I wouldn't consider trying to get my knee down on the road, well not a normal road anyway.
The roads have potholes & lumps everywhere. You can come across spilt diesel, muppets at standstill round a blind bend & cars on your side of the road.
Any of the above can be terminal, so I try to save my enthusiastic riding for the track.
Just been to Triumph and KTM to look at a couple of bikes. However it I want to test ride a bike at either of them they want a returnable deposit of £600 and £500 respectively. I know i would get this back, but why do they have to do it in the first place when neither BMW or Ducati did? Might just tell them to shove their test rides and rule out buying one of their bikes.
Godzilla wrote:Just been to Triumph and KTM to look at a couple of bikes. However it I want to test ride a bike at either of them they want a returnable deposit of £600 and £500 respectively. I know i would get this back, but why do they have to do it in the first place when neither BMW or Ducati did? Might just tell them to shove their test rides and rule out buying one of their bikes.
Whereabouts are you? My ktm dealer in Loughborough (Redline) are fantastic, I doubt they would charge.
Did they give any reason? Seems a bit high handed to start taking deposits. I can only think they've had bikes stolen or bits swapped over, but then someone's only going to turn up with a bent card or a rubber cheque book and pull the same stunt. Good way of driving away business imho.
Both of them pretty much as long as I wanted. I was out on the Beamer from 8.45 till 10.30 as I had already arranged the second test at Ducati from 12 and I was out till 4:30, but he just said get back before they closed.
Blade wrote:Sounds a good service was it BMW Williams and Ducati Manchester ? Think I need to speak with these people.
Yes, have a slight advantage, I know Williams Manchester well as I've been going for 4 years and know one of the salesmen from Ducati, plus 3 of my riding buddies have bikes from there (the ones in the photo at the start of the thread. What were yo thinking of riding? I'm sure we could turn up together at some point.
No problem mate will definitely pass on my comments.
I found your comments both interesting but also surprising tbh so I want to find out for myself as I can genuinely see me considering one of those two models.
It did make my laugh though 