117 ROELAND STREET, CAPE TOWN
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FAX: 021 461 0996
Jackie@eurobike.co.za
February 2010
Hi All
Its February already, I think 2010 is going to fly past us all at such a rate that we will not believe it.
EUROBIKE NEWS:
Here at Eurobike we are going to implement some changes. Our non-existent web site will be closed down and redirected to our blog. We will be on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/EUROBIKE-CAPE-TOWN/284423888653?ref=search&sid=507751580.2006175496..1) as well as Twitter. Please go join us on Facebook and send us all your great pictures. From this newsletter onwards, all newsletters will be available on the blog. If you wish to submit articles then please contact me.
The shop is really starting to look good, thank you for all the photo’s that are hanging up. We still have more space, if you have not bought in a picture, please do.
Here is an ancient pic of Stretch’s grandfather on a Douglas circa 1920. The pic was taken in Loader Street
The Saturday morning coffee group has grown. I see quite a lot of the chaps popping in for coffee don’t even own Italian Bikes, they just like coming around to drink coffee and chat with other bike owners. The sight outside the shop is fantastic as you see all these Italian Bikes lined up, a few Japanese and European ones in between and across the road you usually see all the Ferrari’s and Maserati’s lined up – is this heaven or what??
APRILIA IN MOTION:
Andre van Rooyen, our Aprilia Brand Manager has started the Official Aprilia owners group and it will be referred to as Aprilia in Motion. Their first event will be from the 5th to the 7th of March 2010. The proposed itinerary is as follows:
Depart for Floreat Riverside Lodge, Sabie, on Friday 5 March – participants decide on their own route and time of departure or you can meet at Fourways Motorcycles at 10h00.
A group dinner and entertainment will be arranged for both Friday and Saturday evenings with a small prizegiving taking place on Saturday. (I'm sure if you go up from Cape Town you will receive a prize for making the effort)
Saturdays ride will commence after breakfast – it will allow for everyone to ride at their own pace. The whole idea is to have fun.
Competitive rates - 2 guests sharing in a standard room (double/twin), R1630.00 for 2 nights, dinner and breakfast included.
A full cash bar facility will be available and secure bike parking has been arranged.
If you want to go please phone Mariska Esterhuizen @ Floreat Riverside Lodge on 013 7642160 or email her on info@floreat.co.za please mention to her/email that you are making a booking for the Aprilia in Motion block booking.
If you do go and you would like to trailer your bike up rather than ride it contact Ferdie on 0721891582, he can take it up for you whilst you fly up to Jhb. If anyone joins Andre please take some pictures for our blog.
RACING:
On the Racing side we have lots of news – Our son Killian has started racing our SXV550 in the Motards on the half main at Killarney and made quite an impression – it was his 4th time on the bike and he really did well. Juan Pieterse will be joining him there racing an RS125 Aprilia.
Steven Matthews is racing his RXV450 on the Enduro side and he finished 4th at his last race meeting – see his race reports.
Stretch is going to ride a RSV Mille in the virtual BOTT’s class on the main circuit at Killarney and rumour has it that Paul Medell will be joining his on a RSV as well.
Sheridan Morias will be racing the RSV4R in the Nationals.
If any of you watched the Dakar you will have seen that Aprilia took 3rd place! A wonderful achievement for the first year competing in a Dakar.
We will post all the race dates on the blog. Please come and support our local riders.
The next racing dates are as follows:
Main Circuit – 27 February
Short Circuit incl Motards – 6th March
Stretch taking a breather at the Motard Racing
COLLECTIONS AND DELIVERIES:
As most of you know, we do not do our own collections and deliveries. Ferdie does this all for us. He has now purchased himself a large trailer that carries many bikes and is offering to do long trips should anyone need this service. He will also be operating between PE and CT. He used to be in the motorcycle industry and really knows how to look after your motorcycle. He is experienced at loading and unloading and you know your bike is in good hands when it is with him. He does breakdowns, Accident recoveries, collections and deliveries. Contact Ferdie on 0721891582
NEW PRODUCTS IN STOCK:
We have a full range of gloves in stock – both summer and winter gloves. We also have a range of Shark helmets and some cheaper open faced helmets.
Optimate have put out a new battery charger the Optimate 4 – we have these in stock.
For those of you who wish to put rim tape around your wheels – R170.00 incl vat and this is for both wheels. We have different colours.
For those of you who would like a bit more protection when riding your bike, we have Leatt braces in stock. My son is racing with one and he says its really comfortable to wear. It protects your neck should you fall.
We have some really good Octane Booster in stock from the US. It is reputed to increase horsepower, engine will run smoother, boosts octane, stabilizes petrol and lead substitute. Stretch has been using it in the workshop and rates it highly for the older bikes – R130.00 incl vat per can.
Arrow's performance pipes for Aprilia RS125 in stock.
Cant get air in your tyre at the garage? We have angled valves and adaptors in stock that will solve this problem.
We stock a large range of Moto Guzzi spares (older Guzzi’s) as well as Dellorto jets and revision kits.
We have a large stock of Brembo kits (both caliper and master cylinder kits) for the older Italian bikes.
BUYING A SECOND HAND APRILIA:
Please be very careful when buying a bike off Gumtree or from anywhere other than close to home. I can tell you some horror stories of what people have thought they have bought and what has arrived.
Yesterday, one of my friends was in the process of trying to buy a bike on Gumtree from an “Attorney” in Johanneburg. The bike was supposedly sold by an Aprilia dealer but that was 4 years ago and he was very vague on servicing details. I suggested he get the original registration papers so that I could establish if the bike was a genuine import and perhaps we could get a bit of info as to its year of build off the Aprilia website.
The bike was still under hp with Wesbank which was a bit odd as it was a 2005 model. I phoned Wesbank to enquire as to the settlement on the bike only to find out that the bike had been handed over to their legal section. The owner had defaulted on payment for 6 months and they were looking for the bike as they were trying to attach it.
If my friend had purchased this bike from the Attorney he would have paid him the R’s and he would never have received the documents for the bike because they would have been kept by the bank. If he phoned the bank to enquire as to where the docs were because he presumed the Attorney settled the bank, the bank would be able to attach the bike that he had just bought in lieu of the debt owed to them. My friend would have had to sue the Attorney for his money!!!
We had another case last week where a chap phoned in to enquire about the value of a 2005 Caponord with very low kms he was purchasing. I suggested he supply me with the chassis number so that I could check on its history. He didn’t. He bought the bike and bought it into us for some work – it was a 2001 model that had obviously been in an accident as it had been resprayed and none of the decals were original. The Customer who bought it had been told that the clocks were replaced under warranty as there was a problem with them – they were never replaced under warranty, they were replaced because the bike was crashed.
Then there was the case of the RS250 that was on Gumtree. It arrived in Cape Town not looking anything like the picture that was on Gumtree. The bike was started for the owner and then the chap that bought it down “drove off into the sunset”. The chap that bought the bike could not get it to run – it would just cut out. The bike was bought into us – it had seized and hence it would not idle. The buyer could not contact the seller, his cell phone number no longer worked ……
If you are intending buying an Aprilia please phone or email me with the Vin number first so that we can try and establish what year it is and whether it has any service history.
Be careful when buying off gumtree, especially bikes that drop in price – there is a reason for this. There are a lot of unethical people out there and they will think nothing of putting a beautiful picture of “their” bike on the web when in most cases that is not their bike at all but merely a picture they found.
If you are buying a bike that is still under finance, please check with the bank before you start any negotiations.
Stretch and Jackie.
As most of you know, we do not do our own collections and deliveries. Ferdie does this all for us. He has now purchased himself a large trailer that carries many bikes and is offering to do long trips should anyone need this service. He will also be operating between PE and CT. He used to be in the motorcycle industry and really knows how to look after your motorcycle. He is experienced at loading and unloading and you know your bike is in good hands when it is with him. He does breakdowns, Accident recoveries, collections and deliveries. Contact Ferdie on 0721891582
NEW PRODUCTS IN STOCK:
We have a full range of gloves in stock – both summer and winter gloves. We also have a range of Shark helmets and some cheaper open faced helmets.
Optimate have put out a new battery charger the Optimate 4 – we have these in stock.
For those of you who wish to put rim tape around your wheels – R170.00 incl vat and this is for both wheels. We have different colours.
For those of you who would like a bit more protection when riding your bike, we have Leatt braces in stock. My son is racing with one and he says its really comfortable to wear. It protects your neck should you fall.
We have some really good Octane Booster in stock from the US. It is reputed to increase horsepower, engine will run smoother, boosts octane, stabilizes petrol and lead substitute. Stretch has been using it in the workshop and rates it highly for the older bikes – R130.00 incl vat per can.
Arrow's performance pipes for Aprilia RS125 in stock.
Cant get air in your tyre at the garage? We have angled valves and adaptors in stock that will solve this problem.
We stock a large range of Moto Guzzi spares (older Guzzi’s) as well as Dellorto jets and revision kits.
We have a large stock of Brembo kits (both caliper and master cylinder kits) for the older Italian bikes.
BUYING A SECOND HAND APRILIA:
Please be very careful when buying a bike off Gumtree or from anywhere other than close to home. I can tell you some horror stories of what people have thought they have bought and what has arrived.
Yesterday, one of my friends was in the process of trying to buy a bike on Gumtree from an “Attorney” in Johanneburg. The bike was supposedly sold by an Aprilia dealer but that was 4 years ago and he was very vague on servicing details. I suggested he get the original registration papers so that I could establish if the bike was a genuine import and perhaps we could get a bit of info as to its year of build off the Aprilia website.
The bike was still under hp with Wesbank which was a bit odd as it was a 2005 model. I phoned Wesbank to enquire as to the settlement on the bike only to find out that the bike had been handed over to their legal section. The owner had defaulted on payment for 6 months and they were looking for the bike as they were trying to attach it.
If my friend had purchased this bike from the Attorney he would have paid him the R’s and he would never have received the documents for the bike because they would have been kept by the bank. If he phoned the bank to enquire as to where the docs were because he presumed the Attorney settled the bank, the bank would be able to attach the bike that he had just bought in lieu of the debt owed to them. My friend would have had to sue the Attorney for his money!!!
We had another case last week where a chap phoned in to enquire about the value of a 2005 Caponord with very low kms he was purchasing. I suggested he supply me with the chassis number so that I could check on its history. He didn’t. He bought the bike and bought it into us for some work – it was a 2001 model that had obviously been in an accident as it had been resprayed and none of the decals were original. The Customer who bought it had been told that the clocks were replaced under warranty as there was a problem with them – they were never replaced under warranty, they were replaced because the bike was crashed.
Then there was the case of the RS250 that was on Gumtree. It arrived in Cape Town not looking anything like the picture that was on Gumtree. The bike was started for the owner and then the chap that bought it down “drove off into the sunset”. The chap that bought the bike could not get it to run – it would just cut out. The bike was bought into us – it had seized and hence it would not idle. The buyer could not contact the seller, his cell phone number no longer worked ……
If you are intending buying an Aprilia please phone or email me with the Vin number first so that we can try and establish what year it is and whether it has any service history.
Be careful when buying off gumtree, especially bikes that drop in price – there is a reason for this. There are a lot of unethical people out there and they will think nothing of putting a beautiful picture of “their” bike on the web when in most cases that is not their bike at all but merely a picture they found.
If you are buying a bike that is still under finance, please check with the bank before you start any negotiations.
Stretch and Jackie.
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