Just shy of the 600 mile mark..gonna let Bill at Riva Motor Sports do the job…. he just started the job… hopefully I’ll have nothing but good news when he’s done. ( Capt. John did warn me away from Riva…. but the idea of riding down to Hialeah???? Nope… I’ll try em out instead.)
Down to the wire now almost…only 5 days left to prep … hopefully those Jessie boxes get here in time….( anybody know the emoticon for fingers crossed?)
http://www.jesseluggage.com/yamaha.html
Their dealer told me they put the factory Yamaha boxes inside!! the 11.5″ Safari model. That’s alot of stuff I can haul.
The other little tidbit I took from that…. Yamaha made the factory boxes!!!!…. and the crash bars, and the skid plate,… and all the other stuff that my (now ex) dealer told me they had “no idea” when they would see…yeah right… just another thing that they didn’t order I’m sure….I blame the same punk a** sales “manager.”
So now I gotta find somewhere else to do the 600 mile break in service… cause I’m not spending any more money with those jokers…. anybody recommend a Yamaha dealer in south Florida? ( That isn’t Broward Motorsports that is)
Also… anyone interested in a set of soft saddlebags from RiderWear? Nothing wrong with them they just didn’t fit the Tenere all that well… let me know via comment… I’m gonna return them otherwise.
Here’s a picture from my test trip down to Key Largo. Strapped to the back is all my scuba gear. ( Minus tank of course) The bike rides like a dream. Hot as crap in my Areostich. That suit’s not quite Florida proof.
This is also a test of blog post from my phone. How’s it look?
“I thought you ordered a black one?”
Everybody that I had told about my new bike asked me the same question. Followed by “I like it in blue.”
I agree with them, I also like it in blue. But the fact is, I did order it in black. Why didn’t I get black?
Well the schmuck at Broward Motorsports who calls himself a sales manager ordered the wrong color. I’m a pretty patient person but after waiting almost 11 months for the bike I just couldn’t believe it when I went back to the shop area and saw that it was blue. And this bozo could not have been more of a jerk about it: “Well we’ll just give you your deposit back, I got three people who will run in here to buy that bike, and I have no idea when you’d get a black one.”
Zack, my sales guys was great, as was the general manager of the place and they both talked me down, and told me I had as much time as I wanted to think about it. Eventually I resorted to asking a cute girl for advice. I got the blue one.
My advice to you readers: if the dude is sporting a faux-hawk, well maybe that’s a pretty good sign that he’s not really manager material? I mean mommy stopped taking me to the barber shop quite a while ago. Make sure the people you have to deal with when you’re buying something, other than a tattoo or a good craft beer, have got adult haircuts.
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