10-07-2016, 11:20 PM
(10-07-2016, 09:58 PM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: Ya know, your bragging is really, and I mean really, starting to make me...envious!! What? What did you think I was going to say?
Well, it's not all sweet. Once I had to diagnose a customer bike (cruiser) the customer was having a complaint with and it was 25 degrees when they asked me to ride it. I took it out, rode about 30 miles and correctly diagnosed the problem. Another time I was riding a used Valkrie a customer was buying later that week and made it about 2 blocks before the rear wheel locked up on me and nearly took me down. Had the customer been on it I'm sure he would have crashed. Probably saved them a lawsuit with that one. Most of the rides are ok though, just normal rides, just new bikes with old gas in them. Another time they had a new T MAx scooter (cool scooter btw) that had been sitting there for quite awhile that needed to be ridden. They needed to charge the battery for me to ride it. They wanted me to ride it home that day and bring it back the next. I rode it about 60 miles before getting home and parking it in my garage. The next morning the bike was dead dead dead. Nothing, no lights no horn nothing. So I put it on my trickle charger but 6 hours later still nothing. I loaded it onto my trailer and returned it. They had to install a new battery. If a customer had bought it they would have had an unhappy customer.
My dealership allows test rides, so if someone wants to test ride a bike, naturally it gets gassed up and the battery activated. If the person doesn't buy, suddenly they have a bike sitting there with old gas and a battery that's life clock has started ticking so to speak. The downside of allowing test rides no one thinks about.