The Real Reason We Avoid Buying Indian Motorcycles

TANK STRAPS : TANK STRAPS: EVERYONE IS ALWAYS ASKING HOW TO GET THE TIE DOWN STRAPS THAT SRKCYCLES USES AND THE ANSWER IS RIGHT HERE!

[kenneylee]

Sorry about your misadventure. My take: Right bike, wrong dealer.

[satisfiedmind]

Moral of the story: remove all incriminating evidence from your saddlebags before selling a bike.

[joemarkiewicz]

Just as an update.
I bought this bike from SRK.
Two and a half years and over 14, 000 miles later, the bike still runs perfectly. Although I will need to soon have the rear tire replaced.

[kinangeagle]

Zeroing the odometer is a common practice when changing gauge clusters though. By law, you need to disclose that you zeroed it and you need to write/tape a piece of paper literally anywhere with the actual miles before you zeroed wether the subject os a bike or a car.

So yeah, having the piece pf paper in the saddle bag was completely legal.

[ghosttargets]

It's not Indian, but that particular Indian dealership that should be dissed.

[Meyhaven]

A dealership over charging for a part... Imagine that.

[daanl]

3:45 fixed after a couple of weeks? LOL! The dude probably had the time of his life putting 4000 miles on the bike by driving it down route 66. Hell, he even got paid to do so. Well played dude!

[Anmeteor]

I ran a small custom bike building business in the UK for 15 years. I was shocked by the way some others in the industry and support businesses treated me as a small business man. Plenty of very similar experiences and resulted in me aquiring the machines and skills to do most of those jobs myself in house.
I never went back to places that ripped me off and can only imagine how their retail customers were abused.

[gurgy]

"Illegal to swap out an odometer". So if your bike had a damaged instrument panel with no other problems, you would just total it out with the insurance company. Sure buddy

[JakeStRoas]

I just saw the thumbnail and read “why we don’t buy Indians anymore”

Needless to say, I was very confused

[joemarkiewicz]

I'm the guy who bought the Indian. Sean was completely up front about the speedometer issue and resolution during the transaction. The bike has been almost perfect since I took delivery. The only issue was with the chrome on the kickstand which Indian replaced under warranty. I would definitely buy another bike from SRK.

[drop-d-extreme]

Well this was a weird situation and doesn't really call for a complete boycott of Indian Motorcycles.

[John_Ridley]

Odometer affadavits are completely normal. Replacing odometers with new or used odometer heads is totally normal. You just keep the affadavit with the title and transfer it to the new owner at time of sale. I wouldn't even have bothered with any of that crap.

[aaronvillaverde]

When you're in the business of buying "as is" deals from auctions for the purpose of reselling isn't that a risk you take?

[paulsmith]

I owned an Indian Scout ( yellow) for fourteen years and loved that bike . My only problem that turned out to be a real pain in the butt was the 10 HD dealerships within five miles of my house and the ONE Indian dealership that closed down a year after my purchase. Please be sure when you chose a certain motorcycle that plenty of places will be around to work on them when you need them or else learn how to do your own work. There is now one Indian dealership that is open near me but now I’m subject to whatever they charge, good or bad.

[badmonks]

I upgraded the stock speedo on my 2007 Vic Vegas with a Dakota unit. After purchasing the Dakota speedo, I sent it to the (Dakota) with a certification stating the exact miles on the bike. Dakota put that certified number on the speedometer and sent it back to me. The cost was maybe $35 plus shipping...easy peasey and completely legal.

[MrDVader]

Wonder if the speedo repair guy fixed it by just letting the back wheel spin for a while

[Ka_Gg]

Shouldn't have folded like a lawn chair to the dealership that bought the bike from you. You were in the right. Sometimes you have to stand your ground.

[joewood]

The title should have been 'Why You Should Never Buy A Bike At An Auction' '!

[gammaraider]

An odometer that starts at 0, and an overpriced tire.. I would personally consider these things trivial, but different worlds I guess. I'm just a consumer, not a trader.