You are doing this again?

I thought you will stop talking ass out yourself by making UNEDUCATED remarks.

SR

You are doing this again?

I thought you will stop making ass out of yourself by making UNEDUCATED remarks.

SR

"Hail Denver City, Denver /
Fair town that I love / with Microbrews and Broncos news / at 5000 feet above /
Hail Denver City, Denver / the place that you should be / So come along / I'll meet you in.....the Mile High City."

By Me

>Jeremy,
>
>I would proceed with extreme caution. I would be sure and
>see, touch and feel one - RIDE one - before you consider
>buying one. In particular, I would look for the type of
>quality issue that come up again again with brands like
>Strada - poor assembly hardware that quickly rusts and
>strips out - brittle, cheap quality body assemblies, shoddy
>welding, etc, etc, etc. These products are rarely finished
>well and they can cause real heartaches - especially when
>they are first introduced to the market. Think about value
>- not just price. Think about dealers - about support.

They had a decent number of dealers, and the Peugeot product is fantastic, but the support isn't there for US owners anymore.

So I stand by my comment. If a prospective buyer doesn't have local support available, they probably shouldn't buy. If you can't see one in person, sit on it, you probably shouldn't buy one. And if a buyer can get one, a test ride is really helpful to the buying process.

What a bunch of nonsense! People should not be buying scooters if there is no dealer close by? Come on now!

Even in some fairly rural areas, one can still get a Yamaha, Honda, or Suzuki. Kymco does quite a bit of ATV business, and has many dealers in somewhat rural places. If the only option is for a person to buy a drop shipped scooter, then that person knows what he or she is getting into, because most things that person buys are probably also brought in via mail.

As a consumer, I think buying remotely is not a wise decision, and should be avoided if one can help it. I've had the experience (see the 2 issues of Scooter World Magazine covering that topic), and wouldn't care to repeat it.

You're just upset because I point out some of the drawbacks of your method of sales.

What makes people who buy without support different from me is the fact that there was support (or a widely believed promise of it) when I bought my scooter.

Finally, at this point, I would lose tons of money selling my scooter and trying to buy something else. It just makes no sense.

On DEC sunject, what makes you think that Dec had ever ddealt with our products? I am sure 100% he had never seen all new models.

By the way, you think DEC knows that TNG used to buy from same factory we work with and switched their China supplier due to the fact that original supplier would not lower prices like all China suppiers do?

Regarding overheating on 260cc, you are corrrect. We advised Linhai on 2-4 issues, nothing major, just typical china qc and poor testing.

Superstrada 300 at 3495.00 will be very hot. Bank on it.

Regards

"Hail Denver City, Denver /
Fair town that I love / with Microbrews and Broncos news / at 5000 feet above /
Hail Denver City, Denver / the place that you should be / So come along / I'll meet you in.....the Mile High City."

By Me

http://www.sirscooter.com/promotions.htm

Regards

Ellen
2005 Stella
http://www.scooterdiva.com

2006 write-up at:

http://nyscooterclub.com/

Never used any examples, never supplied any facts.

He has never serviced any of our bikes, he has never contacted us for any support issues.

I thought he made mention of somebody bringing one by his shop.

Regarding overheating on 260cc, you are corrrect. We advised Linhai on 2-4 issues, nothing major, just typical china qc and poor testing.

Good that those issues have been worked on. The Diamo I saw at their booth was much nicer looking than the one I tested this summer. I guess everybody has to muscle the factories in China a little bit in order to get quality.

Did Diamo happen to have that sport motorcycle at their booth? It looks pretty neat I just question its build quality and I have yet to see specs on it.

Hmmm....sounds like a damn good description of every Italian (or French) car I've ever owned or worked on.

I had some problems with the Diamo Turista 260 that I rode. The clutch never was smooth, ever. After 430 miles, it never smoothed out. I also had an overheating problem at top speed. Since most normal high temperatures are caused by stop and go traffic and lack of air flow to the radiator, this turned out to be something wrong. Finally, the rear brake needed to be bled out. The one I was riding was not the final model that they imported. The one I saw at the Diamo booth at Indy had some cosmetic updates (and hopefully the problems I had have been addressed).

My final comment is that I do agree with some of his advice. I think prospective buyers should be able to see a vehicle in person before they buy, and to touch it, sit on it, and hopefully ride it. I couldn't agree more with that advice. And we've gone through the reasons for that more than a few times. If you're curious, look up threads from the past year that are Baron related.