No worries, There are plenty of people here in the US that will rip me off if given the chance. And even though we are... The United States of America... Our protection laws vary from state to state too Rex
Looks like a 4hr drive Saturday (If they dont close state borders...) and I will be the proud owner of a... 2014 1200s (was there such a thing as a stripe that year?) Bunch of stuff.. Only 1 bare end mirror sucks... BUT Steering Dampener and Marchesini wheels... 5 thousand miles. Gorgeous. within driving distance... Termis, upmap, controls etc. $8500 out the door. Thank you to all who helped. Better pics later when it is mine Rex
I have bought online in the last 2 weeks, scary, hell yea! However, lots of pics, video, and phone calls made me more at ease. And I have a 3-month warranty anyway, so, buying from a shop/trader online sight unseen is possibly easier than all the fuss of getting there yourself. Actually, this is the second Ducati I have bought "sight unseen" I guess I have faith in Ducati owners, we/they love their bikes and look after them. Have a go!!! My first was the 1098 Streetfighter you see in my pic, and now the 1198. The SF, I flew from Cornwall to Leeds in leathers and carrying my helmet ready for the ride home, having never sat on it, having never ridden a 1098 Streetfighter before. Have a little faith, trust your "instinks"
Well, I saw online... Nobody, absolutely nobody would offer me anything here but to take my $$ and no guarantees... but they would promise to ship it... right now out $500. 4hr drive with the (I wish) GF... I inspect, handover cash and ride it home... I am sure I will get the $500 back if it is not what I expect... I guess there (if you are there) in the UK customer service counts for something... Here... well, they don't call it the All mighty dollar for nothing... right now... we have already had 50 percent of our yearly rain... 23 inches! fingers crossed its supposed to rain Friday... and Sunday... My new rain gear arrives here after I get home with the bike Rex
Good luck Rex, and yes I guess the UK has some benefits. We have also had all the rain we can cope with, I have ridden my new bike 3 times since delivery, and only one of those times was completely dry, and it has pissed it down since. There is no end in sight, oh and i'll have to "self isolate" soon no doubt. I might self isolate inside my helmet speeding down an "A" road outrunning the Coronavirus. Best of luck with your new bike and promising GF, it looks mint, loud and fast....lurve it.
I have bought loads of bikes, often Ducatis and often off private sellers sight unseen. In fact, that is how I usually do it unless the bike is close by or I know it has some issues which need to be looked at before pulling the trigger. Buying from a dealer gives you a lot more protection as you have the benefit of the various protective provisions of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Edit: just seen from another message that OP is in the U S and A, so obviously the CRA 2015 doesn't apply over there.
I have bought an restored Kawasaki h1f 500 from a dealer on the bay , being delivered tomorrow (yippee) He is THE KAWASAKI TRIPLE RESTORER tho . Happy days , puddy
Yeah but..... I bought an 848 SF sight unseen and without ever riding one. Apart from the hellish 100m journey home in -1 temperatures and with sleet blasting in my eyes which ended with me dropping it on and breaking my left leg in my yard at 3am, the bike was great but I hated the damn thing. Too tall, weird riding position, sold it as soon as I could.
100 meters aint a long journey.... tbh if the weather was that bad i would have just pushed it home.... that said, knowing my luck, it probably would have ended with a broken leg also....
4 years ago I saw a ST 1050 in my colour,year and spec from a leading dealer in Chesterfield. It was "immaculate". "Would I like to put down a deposit before I set off just in case it goes" I am not sure how they got the stainless steel exhaust to rust so much but the ripped seat was not my idea of immaculate
Doh. I wish it had only been 100m. I forgot to mention that I had accidentally fitted a visor without a pin lock so I had to ride with the visor up. Which meant couldn’t ride fast enough to make decent progress as anything over about 60mph meant I had to close my eyes or the pain from the sleet and road grit being blasted into them got too much (my eyes were swollen more or less shut for a couple of days afterwards). Also, due to not having enough space to carry proper bike gear with me as well as all my work stuff during the day, I was just wearing a ski jacket over an armoured mesh jacket. I had to stop at every service station between Chippenham and London to try and stave off hypothermia by drinking a pint of hot chocolate, and at Reading services I was convulsing so badly from the cold that a man asked me if I needed an ambulance. I think the reason I crashed the bike in my yard was because I couldn’t feel my hands and my brain had turned to mush.
