2012 harley crash!
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2012 harley crash!
I was at my dealer today just picking up a few parts and saw a fire across the street about 2 tenths of a mile down the road. I didn't know it was a guy that just left the dealer a few minutes earlier until I saw it on the news when I got home. Wow!
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Hope he's ok too, when I worked at dealership we had a guy buy a bike then proceed to drop it three times in the parking lot, the owner had enough and made him stop (it's not good for business watching a guy crashing in your lot).
We had to deliver the bike to his home otherwise I think he would have killed himself trying. He did get the bike fixed and actually did learn how to ride, but I'll never understand what he was thinking when he bought it.
We had to deliver the bike to his home otherwise I think he would have killed himself trying. He did get the bike fixed and actually did learn how to ride, but I'll never understand what he was thinking when he bought it.
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Hope he's ok too, when I worked at dealership we had a guy buy a bike then proceed to drop it three times in parking lot, the owner had enough and made him stop (it's not good for business watching a guy crashing in your lot).
We had to deliver the bike to his home otherwise I think he would have killed himself trying. He did get the bike fixed and actually did learn how to ride, but I'll never understand what he was thinking when he bought it.
We had to deliver the bike to his home otherwise I think he would have killed himself trying. He did get the bike fixed and actually did learn how to ride, but I'll never understand what he was thinking when he bought it.
I hope the dude is OK. One of the sales guys in Columbus, GA was telling me that stuff happens more often than you'd think. They had a dude buy a Noghtster when they first came out. They always ask you to ride around the lot a little before you take off. This guy ended up finding a way to give it a TON of throttle and then hit a curb. His first service was $3000 in repairs.
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Witnesses say the motorcycle rider was taken away in an ambulance with severe blood loss .... His injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Wow..I thought severe blood loss was life threatening. I know a guy that did almost the same thing...picked up his brand new bike and within three blocks rode it into the grill of an oncoming truck. Multiple broken bones and off work for a year.
Wow..I thought severe blood loss was life threatening. I know a guy that did almost the same thing...picked up his brand new bike and within three blocks rode it into the grill of an oncoming truck. Multiple broken bones and off work for a year.
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i worked at dealerships for 13 years.. i have seen and heard about so many new riders crashing.. everyone says they have been riding their entire life..1/4 of them are lucky to make it off the lot.. saw a kid on a brand new Honda cbr600, took off hard across the parking lot,strait into a forklift. he got embarrassed, picked the bike up and took off down the street leaving a brake caliper laying on the ground.. saw another guy take off on a brand new bike.. the highway in front of the shop had a big ditch separating the east/west lanes. the guy made it out of the lot onto the side street, then he went full throttle, ran a stop light,dodged some 60mph traffic,crossed the east lane into the ditch,then he shot up out of the ditch and completely cleared the west bound lane landing in some trees and bushes... so many people don't want to admit they don't know how to ride, it must be a pride thing
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Wow! Hope the guy will be okay. Just a few months ago some buddies of mine I work with were at a local dealership at lunch when a guy who just purchased a 2012 Dyna crashed right there in the HD dealership lot. They just rolled the bike out of the shop. Guy got on it, started it up and started to pull away then next thing you hear is the bike rev up and the guy skipped one of those cement parking blocks then hits a median in the lot and goes down. He picks up the bike and turns around and rolls it right back into the service department. Never made it off the lot. Can only imagine what would happen if he got out on the street. Leaving the dealership if you need to take a left onto the main street it's kind of a tricky and usually a lot of traffic. Guy would have surely killed himself.
I know dealerships are running a business but you would think that they would check and see if potential buyers had a MC license and have completed a motorcycle riders safety course before they would let the buyer ride off the lot. IMHO seeing a bike go down in the dealership lot doesn't look good for the dealership.
I know dealerships are running a business but you would think that they would check and see if potential buyers had a MC license and have completed a motorcycle riders safety course before they would let the buyer ride off the lot. IMHO seeing a bike go down in the dealership lot doesn't look good for the dealership.
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I bought my vrod in 09 and hadn't ridden in 12 years or so. I killed it twice in the parking lot and said if I kill it once more, we are trailering it home. I didn't and soon realized I needed to take it easy bc it didn't just come back to me. I rode it to work, and when I got off, I spent two hours practicing in the terminal yard. Had I not thought I could've ridden it to work safely, I would have turned around. I'm not too proud to realize I can't do something. 3 years later and I am doing just fine on my SG.
Also, I did not have a motorcycle license or permit when i left the lot. They just require it is insured before you leave. There are atleast two times that I know of where they did not allow someone to ride it home, and delivered it free of charge.