Test Rides

[fazersharp]

Cannot understand anyone who would not sign a £500 excess when taking a bike for a test ride.

I cannot understand anyone who would.

He did buy the bike and when he came the next night to collect it he dropped it at the top of the road , okay it was only a stationary slow drop , you know the one, shit I can't hold this and down it went. Costs for repairs not far short of £800.00,

Thats the thing I dont even have to bin it to loose my £500. - some knob does somthing (like they do every day) Its going to be a strange bike - different feel, blah blah, all it needs is a drop and my £500 is gone.
So now I cant afford the bike anyway. They have not lost any excess but they have lost a customer.
If they want to sell the bikes then they are going to have to take some risk, maybe like has beed said if some joker turns up just looking for a blast, or maybe they could just say you have to sign the £500 if you have under 5 years experiance or somthing.

I know somone who is doing a driving experiance on a track - lambourgini etc and will have to pay the first £5000 of any crash. But had the option to pay a £25 damage wavior fee so in the event of a crash wont have to pay anything.  Why cant the bike dealers do this.