would you ever buy a dealer's demo bike?

[Arizona Wayne]

I feel Vasco DG is just gross in his use of certain words of the English language and should be banned from this forum for his crude remarks.   

[bad Chad]

I think somebody is just grumpy about the loss of his beloved Mana. 

[Vasco DG]

I think somebody is just grumpy about the loss of his beloved Mana. 

Huh? It was still there last night?

Pete

[El Pescador]

I thought it through thoroughly and stand by it. Aprilia make some fantastic motorbikes. In my opinion the Crapponord isn't one of them. Oddly enough a lot of the people I find myself at odds with on other issues also find themselves at odds with me on this. Sorry. I'm not willing to change my opinion which is that the Cappo is a huge, Bubbling bucket of faeces and I'd rather stick my privates in a macerator and pour sulphuric acid on the remains than own one. If I ever have to ride another one it will be an eternity too soon! It's a horrible, tedious prick of a thing that needs shit-canning so Piaggio can free up some funds for Guzzi!

Pete

I don't think I've every laughed so hard at a forum post.  Thanks for that.

[rodekyll]

If Pete was talking English there might be a point to the complaint, but since it's aussie, we don't really know what the words mean.  I mean -- they say FOSTERS is aussie for BEER.  I've tasted it, and it's not beer.  So it's gotta be a language thing.   

[Vasco DG]

I just assumed the comment wasn't serious. The closest the rant came to profanity was using the term 'Shit-canned'. In Oz, in the days when night soil was collected by the 'Dunny Man' the receptacles he used to pick up and empty into the Dunny cart were known as 'Shit Cans'. Hence the expression to 'Shit-can' something which means to stick it in the dunny bucket so it can be taken away with the crap.

Sorry, I can think of no occasion in any sort of company I usually keep where using the term 'Shit Can' would cause even the lifting of an eyebrow. If others move in such rarefied circles that they consider such a term a reason for banishment I'm surprised they ever leave their homes never mind ride something as uncouth as a motorbike.

If you want me to I can unleash a torrent of profanity that would make a Glaswegian docker blanche! I can assure you I tone down my usual, forthright, comments for Wildguzzi simply because I know there are some more delicate souls here but I can't treat the place like a bloody vicarage tea party.

Pete

[LowRyter]

Oh Pete, RK was serious as hell.

 

[Joliet Jim]

I'd rather stick my privates in a macerator and pour sulphuric acid on the remains than own one.

Pete

Is that another way of saying your shrimp on the barbi?

[Vasco DG]

Is that another way of saying your shrimp on the barbi?

Thanks to Mike T for finding that...

[fotoguzzi]

Thanks to Mike T for finding that...

LOL

[rodekyll]

Oh Pete, RK was serious as hell.

 

 :1:

I've been told I'm incapable of funny.

[twowheeladdict]

I recently got $3800 off a new 2014 left over 0 mile Triumph Trophy and Triumph threw in $1200 in accessories.  Full warranty and I get to break it in.

Good luck with your decision, unless you have already made it because I didn't read through all the posts. 

[Vasco DG]

I got a set of free steak knives with a fridge once.

They weren't very good but........

[stmike]

One of the guys in our club bought a new Caponord last month from a dealer with whom he's done a lot of business in the past.  He returned it back to the dealership after three days, as per an agreement when he bought it.  It truly was the most ungainly, top-heavy bike I've ever sat on, and that was the general consensus of the club.. From what I understand, my colleague lost the funds for freight, setup and taxes, but it was well worth his while just to get rid of it and replace it with a new multistrada.

[cruzziguzzi]

Seems I did, in that my Calvin had a couple-three hundred miles (maybe in the 400s) and aside from surprise at it not having been "sorted" by the dealer I don't mind.

Todd.