Well, I've finally done it, the holy grail of bikers, I went into a showroom and came out with a receipt for the deposit on a brand new bike.
I must be out of my tiny mind eh? I only went in to look - well, not really. I had discussed how to dispose of my redundancy money with 'er indoors and she suggested a tour of the local dealers the following weekend, well I couldn't wait could I?
So it was off to the internet at work, and a short time later I had found the bike I wanted (secondhand) in Leigh of all places. So I went and looked at it, fell in love and decided I had to have it. Now the guy was only looking after the shop so to show my bike to the right man and get a trade in value etc. I had to go to ESB in Bolton the following Saturday morning. I don't mind saying that I was so keen that I forgot all about breakfast that morning.
Talk about being knocked flat. No deal was the concensus. He would not even insult me by giving me a value on the bike unless I was buying something obscenely expensive off him. Cheeky b*stard.
So I did some more looking on the web and found a man (KJM) selling a new one for only £500 more than this twelve month old specimen.
One phone call later, I was off to the shop - same deal, let's have a look at yours Alan.
He wasn't much better on his valuation, but he WAS prepared to take it off my hands.
And when we sat down to do paperwork, he actually included the PDI etc. in the price, instead of putting it on top of the sticker price - a case of "What you see is what you pay" - you could have knocked me down with a wet saveloy.
Now for the crunch - I can have it on August 4th - after settling all the paperwork, it seems it takes that long to get one out of the box and put oil in it. Un-bl**dy-believable!
So I informed him about my holidays, August 1st to 16th and he changes it to the 17th (not, oh well, we'll rush it through so you can have it before you go - oh, no.)
So here I am with four weeks to wait for it. Boo Hoo.
So the beauty is a Honda Deauville NT650V by the way and I'm getting a beige one. And before you ask, yes I am having a Y reg one two weeks before the new registrations start, but if I waited, the price would go up, and I didn't want that to happen. So there.
Oh, what have I done?
posted by Alan 12:10 AM[edit]