Back to my original post: "Dealer obligation to the tri-state area mandates that NEW bike sales are restricted to a 150 mile radius of the dealership!"
I read that again and realized that it is not mentioning the mother company, but rather the "tri-state area madates". I know that the dealers around here have a local association, for which all but one of the local dealers belongs to (as far as I am aware). Certainly a "mandate" more than implies that this is something that would be required of all dealers in the association. However, I have not seen this from any other local dealers. I'll probably be visiting at least a few of those dealers this weekend, and maybe the one that posted this. I guess I'll have to ask some questions. If it's not really something mandated to all of the dealers in the area, then they should probably remove this from their website, as it's simply made up BS and probably breaks some sort of truth in advertising laws.
Or perhaps this is their own self-made and self-serving obligation that the principals of the dealer have decided to abide by, to only sell new bikes to those that have a higher probability of returning there for parts and service. Maybe they just worded it inappropriately. Maybe it should have said. "With the dealer obligation to supply bikes to the local area, then it only makes sense that NEW bike sales are restricted to a 150 mile radius of the dealership!" That still may not be totally just, but at least then they could defend themselves by saying that they were doing this as a service to their local customer base. In the end, it really doesn't matter since it seems that nobody else follows this rule.