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I think it's a trend....multi franchise dealers aren't popular with manufacturers.
Triumph have a further problem in that they don't just make cruisers.....so that it's hard for them to make a shop which will appeal to such disparate buyers as classic fans, sports bike fans and cruiser fans.
Also I'm aware that I tend to know more about the bikes the shop is selling than do most of the children they employ in their shops...this is not confidence inspiring



The local [80kms] Dealer gave Triumph up.Then they split the business with Honda,HD going one way and they reintroduced Triumph with their Suzuki?Yamaha? section.So that's good news.The next dealer is 200kms away, that's the main one for the state.I get my local shop to do my work anyway and they are great but it's nice to have a dealer if necessary and the more dealers the better.
I was in the local Kawasaki shop in Thailand inquiring about a 650cc Vulcan.I knew more than the couple of young sales staff about the bike.After them riffling through papers for 15 minutes trying to find out about factory crash bars,I did my best Arnie impression and said "I'll be back"



It's always been very common to walk into almost any kind of vehicle dealership, and if you possess a passion in the subject of motor vehicles(as do most of us about here), you'll find yourself knowing more about their product than the salesman.

I've run into this sort of thing many times. Ask the salesman something you already know, say, if the engine in this vehicle is single or double overhead cam, and half the time you'll get that deer-in-the-headlights look from 'em.

(...that is of course if they even know what the difference between the two is!)



Honda's Goldwing navigation. Same thing with 'kids' albeit that kid was 30yr old. "Sure you can work the navigation while under way" No you can't says I. Five minutes later, after he finds the owners manual, and then only AFTER I take it from him, point out the paragraph, then hand it back to him, does he read the part about 'safety'. That dealership, Geoff Bodine's Honda, went of beewax a year or so ago. Salesmen are like mechanics, good, honest ones are hard to find.

And amazingly long, run on sentences in the 'dee white' vain are exhausting but full of colour. (had to toss in a superfluous 'u')




Blowing gravel off rural roads