Well, as some of you know, I've been waiting and waiting for my bike since August. I'm a little PO'ed to say the least. Seems that other dealers that I called in August are all recieving their bikes on schedule (a little late), but delivered. I'm not getting a really good answer as to why my bike is in Phase II, except that the way HD schedules allotments is strange to say the least.
Anyway, a couple of my friends from Austin contacted me and said one of their riding buddies is a salesman at Central Tx HD and that he had a Black/Slate in the box and was for sale. Wow, tough decision. Not only do I have a 1K deposit down, I have paid them over 3K for extras to be installed at the November discounts. After sleeping on it I decided that I would stick with my local dealer and not do a long distance purchase (300 mi) as I would lose out on the accessories discount and would have to deal with the travel. Plus with the paint problems looming, I would rather deal with the selling dealer for warranty issues. So I called them this AM to tell him no. I hadn't asked their price, but when I did I was floored.