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    my second bike Elle

    in Yamaha Gallery

    Posted

    My first ever 'hurl' on a bike was on the little Honda, my uncle Rob had one, that bike did 283mph :o

    well as a 9yr old it felt like that, the helmet I had on was so big I could hold onto the inside of the chin bar with both hands :blink::lol:

    Hein Gericke, paging Hein Gericke

    in Yamabyss

    Posted

    i completely agree i went to hein gericke for a new air filter before lincoln bikefest

    i got a response of oh this ones about right so i got home put it on and bike wouldnt rev past 2000

    so needless to say i went to take it back and they told me they couldnt take it back as it had been used

    and im out and about tomorrow i might have to pass this on to HG Customer services ;)

    Hein Gericke, thats Hein Gericke dont have an 'In-store' customer services as can clearly be seen by the 'Gerald Ratner' (google that name) type response to a 'within easy sweaty grasp reach' of a credit card transaction for £250, if I had an incompetent like **** ***** at the Hein Gericke branch in ******* ********* (soon to be named) working for me, and came across the 'Branch refund transaction sheet' my limited brainpower would immediately have conjured up an image of Trinity saying "you dont work here now"

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    geting my bike licence

    in General

    Posted

    Thats 3 more 'sleeps' Anthony :blink:

    best of luck m8, sit up proud, use your stomach and back muscles to 'lighten' your grip on the bars, imagine your riding over slippy cobbles when doing the slow maneouvres, and tell us how you got on-good or bad ;)

    General advice/tips anyone?

    in The Bar

    Posted

    So, as I've mentioned in my intro I'm looking to grab me a 125 Dragstar soon as I have enough money for it, insurance and a helmet and the CBT. Just wandered if there is any advice people might give on this? I'll give a little explanation.

    I've a good idea of the basics of how to ride a bike but I guess experience is always the way forward. I'm looking for anyone/everyone's two cents on how to go about getting my CBT, is my choice of bike appropriate, how easy it is to go through the tests etc (in terms of best time frame to do it in)

    Been driving a car 4 years, no problems, quite comfortable. Kart racing since I was 9 and had a 50cc rev and go Italjet dirt bike when I was 7-9. Just to give background on what I've done sort off race/road wise :) I realise this may not help me at all with riding a bike or it may give me some idea as to how to act on the road. The racing certainly drilled into me to never drive beyond my limit ^^

    I'm approx 6ft and 12.5st (80kg?) No real idea on weight. this is my guess from the last time I checked. This sound about right for a 125 Dragstar? Should I be looking to hit the CBT then grab one of those and drive a few years or should I try direct access? From what I gathered the dragstar should still hit 60-70 at a push. But I've seen a number of people have gone straight for DA and found it a workable option.

    What I could really use is an analysis of how much harder the DA is than CBT and whether the bike is a good option for me, or is the money better spent on a bigger bike? :) Dont really wanna buy the bike pass the direct access soon after and be stuck with a slow machine until I save up another lump.

    Any thoughts?

    Cheers,

    Luke

    Quite a lot of difference Luke, The CBT is 'compulsory BASIC training', most pass this on the first or second attempt-but it is NOT a test ! they will assess you and then train you in a car park-around cones etc, then if you seem capable you are taken out on the road-miked up-its 1 day-if you 'complete' the training to a 'standard' you are given the certificate, that will give you 2 years on an L plate, as your a car driver you will already have 'road sense' :huh: , it will be 2 years growing extra eyes, ears, a 7th sense, advanced intuition, telepathy, an uncanny nack for 'radar-ing' old geezers driving Rovers/Micras, women drivers, chavs, young women drivers, tyre biting dogs etc etc-the list goes on.

    DA-Direct access-all of the above, at todays credit crunch busting prices, and the goal you'd be looking to acheive in 2 years time anyway-but not on a cruiser type like an XV IMHO, they're low, slow, more difficult to handle (especially on slow maneouvres like the dreaded U-turn), go for the bigger, heavier 500-600 test bike-yes I thought bigger bikes were harder to handle too-how wrong was I :blink::)

    Hein Gericke, paging Hein Gericke

    in Yamabyss

    Posted

    So in a Hein Gericke sort of way, the franchisees of Hein Gericke, thats Hein Gericke, the staff working at these franchisees of Hein Gericke are guilty of being lying b@astards, so as well as letting Hein Gericke themselves down, in a franchisee fail sort of way, they are also letting the wages paying customers of Hein Gericke, and their franchisee staff who might be good, honest and hard working-unlike the lying b@astard who works at the Heine Gericke franchise at *********** (soon to be named and shamed) down ?

    I spoke to a famous friend I have about this disturbing lack of customer care, and the couldn't care less attitude from at least 2 franchisees (so far) at Hein Gericke

    she said " I'm genewawwy fwabbergasted", "Hein Gericke fwanchises are letting Hein Gericke down, "Unless you know better"

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    Hein Gericke, paging Hein Gericke

    in Yamabyss

    Posted

    After DirtyDT's extremely poor customer service from Hein Gericke, thats Hein Gericke, I see that there are some other people who are disappointed to have received poor and unhelpfull service from Hein Gericke, Hein Gericke gear is not a cheap low end merchandiser of any sort, their gear is of a very high quality and is reflected in Hein Gerickes pricing strategy, i.e. you get quality at a premium cost from Hein Gericke-try telling that to the staff at Hein Gericke,

    here's an excerpt from the MCN, thats the Motorcycle news, the Motor Cycle News is a magazine, containing News about Motor Cycles-hence its name Motor Cycle News, or MCN for short, here they posted a letter about Hein Gericke and another example of poor customer service-the letter writer has vowed NEVER to buy from Hein Gericke again, a member of staff from Hein Gericke has posted a reply to the former customer (who will go and spend his hard earned elsewhere), read what they have to say about Hein Gericke in the Motor Cycle News (MCN)

    http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/community/Forums/Categories/Topic/?&topic-id=396607

    and here is the link about Hein Gericke and their poor customer service as experienced by one of our members

    Hein Gericke sale - If you DONT need some winter gear.

    in General

    Posted

    Thats a pish poor response and customer interest from Hein Gericke DDT, an obvious marketing ploy to get as many 'google hits' as they can, and drum up interest in their gear.

    It works both ways though, for good and bad publicity ;)

    Google do your magic !

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    If my compadre DirtyDT gets a 'good and generous' gesture of goodwill from Hein Gericke, thats Hein Gericke, then I will remove this post about Hein Gericke and its recent 'gaff' when dealing with a 'possible valued customer' of Hein Gericke. Managerial staff within marketing and sales at Hein Gericke, please note-we pay your fukking wages,

    one thing that makes my blood boil is bad customer service from lying b@stards like ****** *********, an employee at Hein Gericke :angry2:

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