mhpr262
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Originally Posted by vabast I watched someone do the same thing at a motorcycle dealership and was told it is common. Apparently people regularly ride up on their old motorcycle, hand over the keys, get on their new (higher performance, usually) bike, and take it out on a sign, the corner of a building, a protective pylon, or the like.
Favorite part: dealership employee saying, right after the crash, in the most jaded and world weary I've-seen-too-many-idiots voice, "Another one..."
I ride msyslf and spend a good deal of time on a motorcycle forum (advrider.com) and that is indeed very common. Extremely poorly trained people or people who have literally never sat on a bike before go buy a liter sportbike and crash within their first hundred yards or still on the dealership property. One member is a dealer himself and said people crashed their new bikes within line of sight at least once a week. It got so bad he would not let them ride their bikes off the dealer lot, they had to push them off before he gave them the keys.