Bargain Basement Bike — Part IV

Late yesterday afternoon, and again, I had been on the phone with Steve at Clinton Cycles. Seems that the tank came back from being re-lined on Tuesday, and it wasn’t good enough to use. But that didn’t get communicated to anyone until yesterday. So, now they are having to order a new gas tank from Honda, which is expected to be another week!

I am now beginning to be a little annoyed — not so much that they’re doing the work on the bike, but that the bike was supposedly made “road ready” before the auction was opened up on eBay. Steve (the sales manager) and Bill (the general manager) seem to be more than a little frustrated with the folks in the service department over this as well.

Again, there’s an up-side to the story. The bike will have a new gas tank now, instead of my having to deal with it down the road. This makes about $1100 that Clinton has spent to support a $1000 sale, not counting eBay fees, credit card fees and shop labor. And they’re going to drop the delivery charge when the bike is finally ready. So, while this is becoming an unnecessarily lengthy transaction, they are bending over backward to make things right.