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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 07:36 PM
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Car dealers can keep cars outside because cars are designed to be outside, where as motorcycles are not.
say what?????
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 08:00 PM
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What's even scarier is if it fades THAT quick in the dealers lot it can fade that fast in your driveway with possibly no warrantee.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by TriGeezer
Car dealers can keep cars outside because cars are designed to be outside, where as motorcycles are not.
Maybe it is just new Harleys that are not designed to be outside.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 09:17 PM
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Just wrong. Too bad Harley controls prices. With flexibility they could get ride of them fast with the appropriate prices.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Uboofer
Just wrong. Too bad Harley controls prices. With flexibility they could get ride of them fast with the appropriate prices.
What are you talking about?
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 09:33 PM
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My understanding is that Harley dictates prices on used bikes at dealerships so that they can keep selling new models. Is this not accurate?
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Uboofer
My understanding is that Harley dictates prices on used bikes at dealerships so that they can keep selling new models. Is this not accurate?
yeah well no no no no
 
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Old Sep 6, 2015 | 10:46 PM
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OK. My mistake your fault... :-)
 
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Originally Posted by flyboyron
I always try and take care of my things. Of course I know that some others could care less about theirs.

A un-named Harley dealer has so many bikes that they have to park them outside all around the building because their is no room for them.

I am talking Hundreds and hundreds of bikes....and 3/4 of them are brand new, taken out of the crate, put together, and parked outside and left there for months and months, maybe close to a year or more.

When they need a certain model on the showroom, they go out to the yard and grab one up.

This is what I saw at the dealer today in the showroom.

There was a brand new Ultra Classic on the showroom floor and the radio was sun faded from sitting outside in the weather for months.

Look at this picture....man it breaks my heart to see such a nice vehicle that they put out in the sun to rot, and now they put it out on the showroom floor looking like crap.

Of course they will probably replace the faceplate and the buttons, if the customer complains, but it still goes to show that the dealer doesn't care about their bikes.

This bike is a brand new 2015 sitting on the showroom floor.


Does this HD dealer move all those bikes inside and out every day, or do they leave them all outside around the clock?
 

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Old Sep 7, 2015 | 08:47 AM
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LOL. designer rat bikes.
 
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