Sometimes I despair
Just back from Kelso - another brilliant weekend of good company , superb roads , excellent weather , semi torpid midges (only one bite !) , too much alcohol , too many mutton pies , the rather fine Les & Jane from Travel-Dri , watching a friend display his considerably improved riding skills over some of the Cheviots' finest , getting sunburnt , and hooning back along the A68 et al .
All in all a first rate "DO" , THANK YOU ONE AND ALL (particularly Jim McS for all the usual "behind the scenes" hard graft that goes into allowing selfish , lazy old gimmers like me to freeload off all your work . THANKS !
Thought I'd check the board to see if anything of note had been put up for sale in my absence - to stumble across this thread .
First an acknowledgement , I'm a long standing customer of Allan Jeffries and have found them to be amongst the three best dealers I have used in some fourty three years of riding bikes . Yes they make mistakes , just like me . When they have , it has been my experience that they do their utmost to put it right . They even have an embarassingly long record of putting my mistakes right ( cross threaded exhaust stud @ 07:45 , due @ Peterborough @ 10:30 anyone ? , or perhaps dead starter motor fixed @ 07:30 so that I can get to Cadwell for the first session of a trackday ?) .
I've not bought a new bike since 1998 and look to be unlikely to do so in the foreseeable future as my boring old 1100GS suits me and seems to be capable of keeping up with most .
Keith I've found to be straight , honest , sound and genuinely prepared to "go the extra mile" to help both new and established customers get the bike that they want . Anyone else remember the other time when GSes were the latest "shiny shiny must-have" ? At the time Jefferies had sold all that year's supply of 1150s and most of the next as well , Keith was part of the team that scoured Europe to ensure that customers got what they wanted - yes , he made commission on every additional bike sold , and so he should as he'd worked for it .
My experience of Keith would lead me to the opinion that if a customer felt that he had misrepresented a bike , he did so out of a genuine mistake , howsoever arrived at .
I assume Joe that ; given your "strap-line" , you have told Keith your honest and genuinely arrived at views regarding his tendency toward mendacity to his face , or are we possibly detecting a faint but pungent whiff of hypocrisy on someone's part ?
My despair ? Oh it's occasioned by having happened upon such unmitigated and craven tosh such as this , so much so that I feel almost as if I have to apologise for reading it .
My apologies to you Keith if you ever happen to see all this and similarly to anyone else who values adult discourse .
All the best ,
Jim .
unless I buy the first round.
