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How many hours away do you live from your dealer? 2006 and newer bikes...

How many hours away do you live from your dealer? 2006 and newer bikes...

  • under 30 minutes

    Votes: 24 24.0%

  • 30 to 60 minutes

    Votes: 17 17.0%

  • 1 to 2 hours

    Votes: 22 22.0%

  • 2 to 3 hours

    Votes: 8 8.0%

  • 3 to 4 hours

    Votes: 10 10.0%

  • 4 to 5 hours

    Votes: 8 8.0%

  • more than 5 hours

    Votes: 11 11.0%
  • Total voters
    100
Coffee

Coffee

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If you own a 2006 or newer bike, how many hours does it take to drive to the dealer you bought your last bike from in 'non commute' hours (like on a Saturday morning)?

I live about 45 minutes from Motoxotica where I bought my last bike.


Although the distance you are from the dealer you bought your bike from is often related to 'how close is your nearest dealer', it really is a separate question. If you have a dealer 30 minutes away, but bought your bike from a dealer far far away and it was shipped to you - you should vote: 'more than 5 hours'.
 
Three and a half hour’s away
Gota’love it

Lucky me the in-law’s are right there (and we get along just great ;)) so we usually make a weekend out of it

:cry:
 
Although most of my dealings are with Uptite, the last bike I bought was from Bills MC plus in Oregon. I would have bought my bike from George but it was at a time when the 610's were kinda hard to come by and he didn't have one readily available. I had a narrow window of opportunity to buy one and Bill had one for auction at the right price. I was Bills first E-Bay customer and I have no regrets what so ever buying from him (except a slight guilt factor for not being able to support George). Bill did a great job of setting up the bike for me ( I know because I took it all apart to make sure) and was considerate enough to follow up on the purchase and make sure that it was just the way I wanted it and there were no issues.
 
My dealer is a little over two miles from my house.

Still, that's twice as far as the dealer for my J models.:D
 
A little over two hours... he hasn't seen me since we rolled the bike out back. Probably a good thing, newer models might temp thee!
 
The dealer I bought from is 14 hours away, so I had the bike shipped. There's a fairly new dealer that's about 2 hours away from me, and a couple of more established ones about 3 hours away. Not sure which I will use if I need warranty or other service. I wish I had one local.
 
Coffee;43902 said:
Although the distance you are from the dealer you bought your bike from is often related to 'how close is your nearest dealer', it really is a separate question. If you have a dealer 30 minutes away, but bought your bike from a dealer far far away and it was shipped to you - you should vote: 'more than 5 hours'.
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Thanks for posting that you got bikes from far away but also stating if there is a dealer closer by.

I'm trying to get an idea how many people would find traveling to the dealer you bought your bike from difficult. My personal definition is 4 hours one way someplace. Leave at 8am, arrive at noon, have work done on the bike while eating a long lunch, then leave the dealer about 2 - 3pm, arrive home 6-7pm.

More than 4 hours one way and it becomes painful, for me at least. 6+ hours away almost makes it overnight trip, assuming there needs to be a couple of hours for the bike to be worked on while the dealer is open. Long trips are also expensive. If averaging 60mph then that is about $20 ($0.33/mile) to $30 ($0.50/Mile) per hour for the trip to run your transport vehicle. Lots of ways to do that math, but tires and fuel are not cheap. Actually if cost is taken into account 3 hours might be a better number to use.

At this time the poll shows 35% of the bike buyers are 3+ hours away from the dealers. Interesting...
 
Dealer? :excuseme:

As far as I'm concerned I don't have a local dealer. (wouldn't let the localish shop touch it) I'd consider ordering stuff from Curtis at Cycletown South, down south of Dallas where I picked up my bike. And of course there's the good words here about Uptite, halls and motoexotica......... but as far as I'm concerned this bike didn't come with a warranty and I'm on my own for most anything that might happen. CH and ADVR are the real support groups out there for Husky............
 
It's about 250 miles to my "local dealer". Mostly interstate hwy., so it keeps it to about a 4 1/2 hour drive.
 
Well,
One of my bikes came from Halls in IL. A very good dealer at what they do also, after all they were named a great dealer award by Husqvarna. IMO where you get your bike is sometimes irrelevant to were you have it serviced.
Now as far as warranty work is concerned, if I bought a bike from dealer "B" and brought it to dealer "A" for service and dealer "A" was closer by say 20 miles, I would be an idiot. Always deal (purchase if you can) with your closest Dealer? Does that make sense?
 
PALMER84ONE;43991 said:
Does that make sense?
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I think in your example you are comparing dealer A & B being sorta close to the purchaser, in which case you example makes sense.

As opposed to you getting a bike shipped to you from far away.


In any event I like to support my local dealer when possible, but that is a whole nuther topic.

I went to Motoxotica again today - it was 3 hours round trip because of the traffic - not good.
 
Dealer I bought from was 40 minutes away. They are gone. The next closest is 1-1/2 hours away.
 
I'm right about 30 min (plus or minus depending on the traffic) from where I bout my bike but much prefer the hour (again w/the plus no minus here plus again w/traffic, I hate the 91 !! , worlds :censored: biggest :censored: parking lot :banghead:) drive to Up-Tite! It's always worth it!:thumbsup:
 
Except for the majority in the poll now (24% at under 30 minutes) the remaining 6 categories are all covered by about a 10% spread. Seems to me there are about 1/4 who like Husky and either are 1., fortunate to have a dealer very close by or 2., even though the Husky is great, they might not have gotten one if there wasn't a dealer close by. I like to think the former. It probably is as there are many great dealers who draw the off roaders in their community toward their shop and the brand. Now the other 75% of the riders appear that Husky is hwta they want and that is the distance to the closest shop. Just Geography I guess. I hear the new stimulus package will include a Husky shop in every state! Just thinking about something that is real important for them to ponder.

Joe
 
Real close to a couple dealers.

I am about 10 minutes from Ron Bishop Motorcycles, about 12 minutes from Moto Forza.
 
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