When you walk into the store and see the bike that is yours... you'll understand.
Looking at one in the shop, sitting on someone elses bike it's all cool. But when that bike belongs to you...
i signed finance 'n dealer dropped my bike on the ground
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earwig
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I agree with your concerns. If I just spent thousands on a new bike I wouldn't want one that was dropped and repaired, I don't care if it makes them honest by telling you or not. Your friends are right also... the handlebars do not bend that easy, they probably wheeled it off the side of a ramp coming out of a trailer or something. All sorts of funky stuff can show up in a few weeks resulting from the bike tipping over that they missed while repairing… I don’t know… chances are its fine but I am like you and wouldn’t want to chance it.
first things first: THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONCERN, SUPPORT AND AN EFFORT TO HELP. i really do appreciate it very much, it held me up.
but things turned out, that i've already got the bike in my yard. i've got an excellent approach from the dealer, looks like salesman exaggerated the situation yesterday, just scaring the ... out of me purposelessly. probably thinks, he's better and tries to make fools of mechanics. don't know, other than that was alright. they probably bent only that end piece you can srew on onto the handlebar.
i inspected all bike as thoroughly as i could as newbie, didn't find the tiniest scratch, grabbed and shook everything, even the paint on the stop points of forks radius are untouched and there's even thin layer of dust all over the bike, as it was probably assembled couple of days ago and since than untouched, no large parts changed... the bike is simply looking as i expect from brand new bike and if i haven't heard, i wouldn't ever think different. i rode it home about 1o miles, everything seems to be ok, except of my yet incoordinated control over it, since it's my first road bike ever, i've never sat on any except of 2days motoschool in order to get the licence, and my little klx11o pit bike with knobies.
that's it for now, thank you all once again, looking forward to possibly meet some you on the road.
gotta go, got my first service scheduled after 6oo miles, wanna be there on friday ;o) anyone up for ride from L.A. to sanfran or great valley and back via backroads tomorrow?
take care guys!
but things turned out, that i've already got the bike in my yard. i've got an excellent approach from the dealer, looks like salesman exaggerated the situation yesterday, just scaring the ... out of me purposelessly. probably thinks, he's better and tries to make fools of mechanics. don't know, other than that was alright. they probably bent only that end piece you can srew on onto the handlebar.
i inspected all bike as thoroughly as i could as newbie, didn't find the tiniest scratch, grabbed and shook everything, even the paint on the stop points of forks radius are untouched and there's even thin layer of dust all over the bike, as it was probably assembled couple of days ago and since than untouched, no large parts changed... the bike is simply looking as i expect from brand new bike and if i haven't heard, i wouldn't ever think different. i rode it home about 1o miles, everything seems to be ok, except of my yet incoordinated control over it, since it's my first road bike ever, i've never sat on any except of 2days motoschool in order to get the licence, and my little klx11o pit bike with knobies.
that's it for now, thank you all once again, looking forward to possibly meet some you on the road.
gotta go, got my first service scheduled after 6oo miles, wanna be there on friday ;o) anyone up for ride from L.A. to sanfran or great valley and back via backroads tomorrow?
take care guys!