In late March I visited my local motorcycle accessories store that was having an open day with discounts, food trucks and raffle prizes for those attending the event. I entered the in store raffle and was extremely fortunate, grateful and excited to win a brand new motorcycle!
The bike is awesome, it suits my riding style and I plan to accessorise it and keep it long term.
I expected to pick up the bike in the couple of days after the win, it was in possession of the store and just needed registration transferred into my name.
In the two weeks following the win there was essentially radio silence from the store – I called twice and was told the manager was working on it, two emails I sent requesting an update went unanswered.
Concerned, I managed to track down the business owners details and emailed them. They were apologetic and got some movement underway. The bike was transferred from their retail store where it was on display to a motorcycle dealership for registration.
Unfortunately the dealership struggled to register the bike due to communication issues with the national distributor who sold the bike directly to the raffle holding retail store.
But my patience was rewarded when on May 3rd I was notified the bike was ready for collection!
Ubering to the dealership on May 6th I found the bike had damage on its primary fairing decal. If the damage was somewhere inconspicuous I’d live with it, but this was smack bang where your eye is drawn to when you look at the bike – and you only get to ride away into the sunset on your brand new bike once.
So I Ubered home and waited for word on when the bike’s defect would be fixed up.
The decal was out of stock. It would be a four week wait for the replacement part to arrive.
Being resourceful I managed to source the decal from China by ordering the entire fairing which was in stock and came with the decal unattached.
Once it arrived in Australia I dropped the decal to the dealership on May 17th.
On May 19th the dealership called me and explained that when their technician has peeled the decal from its paper backing it had wrapped around itself. Trying to unstick the decal from itself was unsuccessful and it was destroyed in the process.
To resolve the issue the dealership brought in another bike that was the same model and stripped the fairing from it to replace the defective part on my bike.
On May 21st I picked up the bike!!!
On picking up the bike it displayed an electrical fault which led to it breaking down the day of collection requiring a tow.
On May 27th the dealership towed the bike to their store.
On May 29th I called the dealership for an update and they explained the bike had a faulty ignition system which was out of stock.
It will be a four week wait for the replacement part to arrive.
What bike may I ask?
Such a comedy of errors!