Do you dance 
Have your bucks gone to the dealer ??
Nope... No Dance... No bucks to the dealer...
Here's what happened...
I show up at the dealer at 8am on my 07 FLTR, paperwork and checkbook in hand. We run throught he numbers, get the paperwork together and I put a deposit down. This is all by 9:30am...
Next thing I know, the sales staff is realizing that nobody ever called the other dealership about the silver bike. It seems everyone thought someone else did it. When they call the dealership in IL, guess what? Yep. That's right. The bike was no longer available. THEY TRADED IT TO ANOTHER DEALER!!!
At this point, the sales manager starts to sweat bullets. He's run my credit, gotten me approved with Harley, appraised my trade and taken a deposit... and now he doesn't have a bike!
To make a long story short, I was at the dealership until about 2pm. (Damn good thing they've got a grill behind motorclothes!) They called every Harley dealer in the US that had a silver SERG showing in-stock. They went from IL to Ohio, trying to stay close to home (about 500 miles). Then, they went to Boston (1100 miles), Colorado (1100 miles) and South Dakota (1300 miles). That's as far as they were willing to go for a trade, so then they started looking to buy a bike on the west coast and having it shipped here.
By 12:30, every stone had been turned, every opportunity explored, every resource exhausted. There was not a silver SERG to be had anywhere. The closest they got was the dealer in South Dakota who said, "We've got the paperwork, but we don't know where the bike is... yet!"
Starting at 1pm, they put on the full-court press to get me to buy the yellow SERG they had sitting on the floor. Dragged it out into the mid-day sun so I could see the yellow paint sparkle (Ooooh! Pretty!). Sent me for a (short) test-ride. Bummed me a smoke and left me alone for a half-hour with my thoughts and calls to the wife, the girl and some riding buddies -- including LarryB whose probably cussin' me by now! (I'd say I drove him crazy, but clearly that's already been done!) Everybody said, "Not the yellow one! You're not a yellow-bike-kind-of-guy! Wait for the silver one you want. It's only a couple of months away!"
By the time I left around 2:15, they'd knocked $1500 off the top to get me to ride the bus (yellow SERG) home, but by this time, I was so damned confused, I left the deal open on the table to go home, discuss it with the wife and friends some more (Thanks, LarryB!) and sleep on it.
Well, I never got to the sleeping on it part.
Several times today, I almost had myself convinced myself that I wanted a yellow SERG. "The Yellow really pops. It's an attention-getter. That's what I always want in my bike." "It's not *that* much yellow." "It'll be safe 'cause yellow is easier to see, especially at dawn, dusk and nighttime." So on and so forth.
But, it didn't work. I want a silver/titanium SERG. Talked it over with the wife and a few friends including LarryB. This is the right decision. Gives me a couple months to decide what I'm doing to/with the bike when it gets here and it'll be ready for the spring riding season. Besides, they're doing water-main construction on our road right now. Every time I ride, my bike gets filthy. Who wants to do that to a new SERG. Maybe they'll have it "buttoned up" by Feb/March.
That's the story.
Rock On!
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