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A friend just bought a new 2011 Spyder RT (the touring model if I didn't get it correct) with all the bells and whistles. I was lucky enough that he let me drive it about 90 miles to his home since he's never had a bike before and wanted to practice some on the back country roads before taking it on the main roads.
Now the issues, the biggest one being the amount of miles (70) that were on the bike when we picked it up. I've had a lot of new bikes, and none of them ever had over maybe 5 miles when I picked them up from the dealer. When the friend bought the bike (a couple of months ago) it had 0 miles on it in the showroom, they stored the bike till he was able to make arrangements to get it picked up. At the time when he bought it, his bike was the only RT unit on the floor and what they told him at the time, is that it was the only one they had. Our thoughts...could they have been using his bike to give demo rides since they didn't have one and didn't want to lose out on a possible sale to other people? The person who gave us the keys to the bike didn't seem to know straight up about Can Ams except how to start them and open the bags. Couldn't tell us how to check the oil or what rating of gas it took. On top of everything else the bike wasn't clean, almost 30 grand for a bike and it wasn't even clean when we picked it. We could it had been ridden on a wet rode and never rinsed off, inside of the bags dirty at the seals, just not detailed out like a new bike should have been.
If these things seem entirely out of character for the purchase of a new Spyder, what should my friend do and what recourse should he and his wife take. Thanks in advance.
Now the issues, the biggest one being the amount of miles (70) that were on the bike when we picked it up. I've had a lot of new bikes, and none of them ever had over maybe 5 miles when I picked them up from the dealer. When the friend bought the bike (a couple of months ago) it had 0 miles on it in the showroom, they stored the bike till he was able to make arrangements to get it picked up. At the time when he bought it, his bike was the only RT unit on the floor and what they told him at the time, is that it was the only one they had. Our thoughts...could they have been using his bike to give demo rides since they didn't have one and didn't want to lose out on a possible sale to other people? The person who gave us the keys to the bike didn't seem to know straight up about Can Ams except how to start them and open the bags. Couldn't tell us how to check the oil or what rating of gas it took. On top of everything else the bike wasn't clean, almost 30 grand for a bike and it wasn't even clean when we picked it. We could it had been ridden on a wet rode and never rinsed off, inside of the bags dirty at the seals, just not detailed out like a new bike should have been.
If these things seem entirely out of character for the purchase of a new Spyder, what should my friend do and what recourse should he and his wife take. Thanks in advance.