Hayabusa2005
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All of our dealers here in NW Arkansas encourage test rides and allow you to take anything out as long as you have a motorcycle license and experience in the type of bike you are taking out...
You can't test ride Busa's???
- Thread starter Juggernaut
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Here, after they get though rolling on the floor laughing, then they tell you NO!!! I know lets go to Shawnee Cycle Plaza, and tell them Gsxcite said, we could test ride all the new bikes.
berryman
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I've bough so many bikes the shop owner lets me ride whatever I want. When I was looking at my Busa it was back in the used section and I was like, "hey I wanna take that bike for a ride." The guy in that section didn't know me...he was new or something. I walked into Aaron Pitts's office and was like WTF?!. He calmly took a business card from his desk and wrote..."Doug can ride whatever the F**K he wants, signed Aaron. I took that card back to the kid in the used section and gave it to him. He looked at me and said, "let me get you a key." I never had another problem. I bought the Busa after I rode it to.
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Juggernaut
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I guess it really comes down to the dealer. H-D is similar in this way. They encourage a test ride prior to the purchase. Most dealerships even have a special loop for you to go on. And they look at the mileage to insure you didn't go anywhere you weren't suppose to. There is a waiver signing, which I assumed would be in place anyway. Just dealer to dealer stuff.
yea, "Gee I sure am sorry bout that" does not pay for very much paint work
Juggernaut
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+1. A couple members here have rode it. Many have asked to ride it," NO " is the answer.
i have taken a Buell for a test ride, but that was like six of us and following an instructor. Never seen anyone get to take a liter bike out, or for that matter any sport bike, its just to great of risk for the stealership to take.
If your looking pretty hard at one, you must have your mind made up, go ahead and take the Nestea plunge, i really dont think you will regret it....
If your looking pretty hard at one, you must have your mind made up, go ahead and take the Nestea plunge, i really dont think you will regret it....
Salty
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Here, after they get though rolling on the floor laughing, then they tell you NO!!! I know lets go to Shawnee Cycle Plaza, and tell them Gsxcite said, we could test ride all the new bikes.
LMAO...Lets go...I want to test out some 09 models....Well pack a lunch and make a day trip out of it...
I thought they were gonna let my right wrist test drive a new busa:cookoo:
for thinking that.
MelodicMetalGod
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I found out about this "little" stumbling block during my research for the buy. I was also considering the ZX-14. My dealers will let you test ride anything but a sport bike. Great!
Never having ridden ANY modern sport bike and coming from a string of classic standards, I opted to take the Keith Code course using their ZX-6R. Killed two birds with one stone - got some experience on a sport bike and learned a lot of great stuff about how to ride bikes in general.
Still, I bought my Hayabusa without ever having done more than sit on one in a showroom. Very scary stuff, but it worked out for the best!
Best of luck!
Never having ridden ANY modern sport bike and coming from a string of classic standards, I opted to take the Keith Code course using their ZX-6R. Killed two birds with one stone - got some experience on a sport bike and learned a lot of great stuff about how to ride bikes in general.
Still, I bought my Hayabusa without ever having done more than sit on one in a showroom. Very scary stuff, but it worked out for the best!
Best of luck!
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