13-10-20, 08:19 PM
I bought my 125 blind from a dealer 40 miles away, never even saw a picture of it or anything. Saw it for the first time when it was unloaded out of the van.
My first big bike I bought (also taxed and insured) without anything but a single gumtree picture and a text message off the owner to go from, worked out brilliantly ?
And i also bought my FZ1 without seeing it as it was from a dealer on the opposite side of the country. He agreed to deliver it for £100 on the premise that if I didn't want it he would have just put it back in the van for the return trip. Obviously that turned out well too haha
Tbf most of the time I've test rode bikes I've decided against them, I tend to find I'm always looking for the negatives and comparing it to whatever I've owned st the time. Buying blind just seems to be more exciting.... plus the realisation that you own it tends to make most of the smaller niggles seem insignificant haha its amazing what you can look past when you've just forked out a few grand for something ?
My first big bike I bought (also taxed and insured) without anything but a single gumtree picture and a text message off the owner to go from, worked out brilliantly ?
And i also bought my FZ1 without seeing it as it was from a dealer on the opposite side of the country. He agreed to deliver it for £100 on the premise that if I didn't want it he would have just put it back in the van for the return trip. Obviously that turned out well too haha
Tbf most of the time I've test rode bikes I've decided against them, I tend to find I'm always looking for the negatives and comparing it to whatever I've owned st the time. Buying blind just seems to be more exciting.... plus the realisation that you own it tends to make most of the smaller niggles seem insignificant haha its amazing what you can look past when you've just forked out a few grand for something ?