Archive for April, 2011
What And Where To Look For Motorcycle Salvage Yards
To get a high end bike at a reasonable low end cost it is best to buy salvage motorcycle. But where would you find salvage motorcycle? There are many places wherein you can buy salvage motorcycle. You can find in auction sites or your local newspaper. But the best place to look for it is in the motorcycle salvage yards. Some prefer to look for it on auction sites. In case of auction the vendor presents the products on a public platform. Cost of the products are determined by the offers or bids of buyers interested in buying them based on their estimation of need and of value of the products.
Dealers are not obliged by law to give used car buyers a threeday right to cancel. It is best to ask about the dealers return policy be sure to put it in writing and read it carefully before purchasing it from a dealer. The dealer of these motorcycle parts offers a 21 reduction on their insurance.
Many people prefer to hit the open road with motorcycle instead of a car. It is easy to breeze through traffic and park it anywhere making it very convenient to have around. Like any other equipment motorcycle requires regular maintenance. It means that changing oil and replacing a few parts will deteriorate due to wear and tear which may cost you a lot. Its your choice you can go to the dealer and spend a lot to have the bike serviced or save a few dollars by checking the motorcycle salvage yard.
A motorcycle salvage yard is a place where you will likely find some used parts that replaces the old ones in your bike. Other motorcyclists refer to it as the bone yard. This is the next best thing to go aside from the dealer to have some work done. If you want to look for motorcycle salvage yards you can start browsing the directory or ask some people who may have an idea where to find such place in the neighbourhood.
Once you have found one it is best to ask the assistance of the personnel to help you look for the part needed to make your motorcycle look good as new. Just a piece of advice there are some who take advantage and sometimes recommend the wrong part. Be very careful on who you are dealing with. It is hard to identify which is the one who is telling the truth and who is lying. It is best to study the parts you need very well so that you will not have bigger problems in the future. It will help you a lot if you are a member of a motorcycle club. The club will refer to you legitimate dealers of used motorcycle parts therefore you will be able to purchase parts with quality and excellent service at a lower price.
If you ever found the perfect salvage motorcycle yards you can always come back in the future if you need another part again.
About the writer: Necycle is a place where you can find quality Used Motorcycle Parts. Necycle stock thousands of used motorcycles used motorcycle engines used motorcycle frames. Necycle deal with over 100 Motorcycle Salvage Yards daily. For details visit http://www.necycle.com
Wear Motorcycle Helmets? That Is A Good Question!
Motorcyclists are always evaluating the use of motorcycle helmets. Is this simply a matter of preference or are there significant issues to be considered?
A friend of mine Bill has chosen to ride with a helmet or at times without a helmet. He says it depends upon riding conditions for him.
One day he was on a two lane road traveling about 50mph when a tractor trailer truck pulled out from the right side of the street to go the same direction. His thought was to maintain his speed and simply pass the truck. Which most likely could be done. Unfortunately the truck driver did not have enough room for the turn and stopped dead still crossing both lanes.
Bill was now approaching the truck too fast and too close to stop safely. He tried breaking hard but immediately knew he was facing the side of the trailer headon. With quick thinking he laid his Harley on the side and slid under the trailer and on down the road a couple hundred feet.
Relaying his story to me he was flat on his back feet first with his arms spread out and his head bopping on the highway. When all was finished he gave credit to God for helping him and praised his destroyed helmet for saving his life. Plus the leather jacket and gloves that had taken the tears in place of him.
My friend only suffered from some sore muscles and hurt pride. But it brings up the subject of helmet safety.
In the KSLTV News of South Jordan the Police Chief Dan Pearson is likewise teaching people that motorcycle helmets save lives after losing three friends to motorcycle accidents in two years. All three suffered from head injuries and none were wearing motorcycle helmets.
Then the police chief himself was involved in an accident on highway 89 North of Afton Wyoming.
A truck towing a horse trailer had passed him and pulled in front of him hitting the front of his motorcycle with the spare tire mounted on the back. Dan was thrown off his bike landing headfirst. He says This injury would have been a fatal blow if I had not had the helmet on. Dan suffered from bruises and a few broken bones.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that motorcyclists survive a crash and receive less serious injuries when wearing a helmet. They report that at least 600 people are saved each year.
One question that is asked motorcycle helmets might protect your brain but can it increase your chances of a broken neck?
Dr. Michael Yorgason a surgeon at Montana Orthopedics and Sport Medicine states that the findings from medical literature shows: autopsy studies done after fatal motorcycle accidents have shown that neck injuries and fractures are equally likely whether you are wearing a helmet or not.
Yet most medical reports support the use of motorcycle helmets. They believe that the helmet generally decreases the risk of head and brain injury significantly and surmise that wearing them does not increase your risk of neck injury.
An Italian study concluded that a helmet decreased injury by 66.
A Thailand study found that after making motorcycle helmets mandatory head injuries decreased by 41 in 2 years.
Now in Kentucky a study revealed that brain injury increased by 4.3 times when not wearing a helmet.
In an article written by Jonathan P. Goldstein PhD. titled The Effects of Motorcycle Helmet Use on the Probability of Fatality and the Severity of Head and Neck Injuries. He concludes that there are a number of variables in a study that puts the study in question.
Major differences are held concerning helmet use or nonhelmet use. Normal results compare death and injury rates are two and three times greater for nonhelmet riders and increases in occurrence rates in repeal years that vary from 19 to 63.
On one side: the helmet verses the nonhelmet study fails to consider these two classes of riders. Stating that helmet riders are more cautious by nature.
One they drive slower thus have slower speeds in crash situations.
Two they are less likely to have an accident.
Three helmet wearers are less likely to drink and drive alcohol or use of drugs. These behavior changes dramatically reduce a riders risk.
Ontheotherhand factors to consider are:
1average age of the biker
2average miles driven each year per biker
3average experience of the biker 4the size of the motorcycle driven.
So between the size of the bike potential speed age risk taking and alcohol ingestion; simply cannot realistically prove the effectiveness of helmet use.
The Goldstein study did approach these variables in question. They reported a study that evaluates the effectiveness of motorcycle helmets in accident situations. The conclusions are:
1Motorcycle helmets have no statistically significant effect on the probability of fatality.
2Helmets reduce the severity of head injuries.
3Past a critical impact speed of 13 mph helmets increased the severity of neck injuries.
The report then concluded that helmet users face a tradeoff between reductions in the severity of head injuries and increases in the severity of neck injuries.
Under these circumstances a mandatory helmet use law cannot be reasoned to be an effective method to stop an individuals death or injury when involved in an accident.
Perhaps other choices need to be considered in providing safety in motorcycle use. Here are three suggestions.
One educate the general driving public car and truck drivers in road use with motorcycles.
Two educate inexperienced motorcyclists on accident avoidance evasive action and the proper use of these powerful machines.
Three create a strict enforcement of drunk driving laws. Some studies show that alcohol consumption is the major factor in deaths and injury.
HarleyDavidson offers basic and advanced training to 200 dealerships in 30 states. Honda has four training centers. BMW is considering advanced training but says they tend to attract seasoned riders.
It is believed that training cuts panic. You need to know how to negotiate a curve and resist the urge to brake etc.
Here are some other factors that need to be considered. Tires should be inflated to the proper level.
A riders visibility to be seen. Tests have shown that the plain white motorcycle helmets are the easiest to be seen. Clothing makes a difference between day/night.
US DOT findings discovered that following the Helmet Law Repeal in Texas and Arkansas from Aug/Sept of 1997 to May 1998 helmet use dropped to 52 in Arkansas and to 66 in Texas.
In Arkansas motorcycle fatalities rose 21 following the repeal and head injuries increased 18.5. Texas fatalities rose 31.
One court case in California disputed what standards were set for qualifying a helmet as safe. For a list of the US Government Compliance Testing of Motorcycle Helmets you can check to see if your helmet passed or failed. Check with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA.
When I am on my motorcycle I know what I am doing. I do not know what the other driver is doing. So with the many facets of helmet use and considering the pro/cons I choose to wear a helmet. You will have to decide for yourself!
About the writer: Lonny Wolford endorses motorcycle saftey and great quality bikes at my website http://www.toplinemotorcycles.com
Us Vs. Them – Consumer Actions Against E-Business – Case Study Demons Custom Cycles South
What is your experience with ebusiness? Most people will probably say that 99 of purchases they make over the internet are just fine. After all that’s why we use it. It’s convenient quick usually cheaper and you can visit any store in your underwear and nobody will tell you to leave.
Why then don’t we conduct 100 of our business over the internet? The answer to this is simple and best illustrated in a balanced scale. Let’s say that a perfectly balanced scaled represents the ultimate shopping experience. Everything is exactly how you like it. Great customer service awesome prices always open no hassle no traffic absolutely everything you could possible want in a shopping experience. But you and I know that it just doesn’t exist. No matter how hard businesses try they will never reach that pinnacle.
When a business decides to be primarily web based they are moving weights from one side of the scale to the other. The internet allows them to really stack one side of that scale but no matter how hard they try facetoface customer interaction always get’s left behind.
The purpose of this article is to talk thru the options that the econsumer has when faced with a negative or otherwise unpleasant experience with an online business. While I’ve experienced it from all the expected sources like Craigslist and EBay I want to focus on more traditional ecommerce and my experience with Demon’s Custom Cycles South aka Demon’s Cycle www.demonscycle.com.
By no means do I consider myself a biker or a custom bike builder. I do like to treat my one car garage like my own little pro shop and on any given night you will find me welding bending grinding wrenching or torching my way toa “cooler” bike. In early 2008 I decided I wanted to build a groundup custom motorcycle. Idid my research on styles decided what I liked and then built the list of what I needed. I started with the frame. After a little searching I found that I could get a great deal from Demon’s Cycle.
I order my frame on 6/24/08. One thing you have to realize when building a bike is that in order to get it legally registered the frame must have a Manufacturers Statement of Origin MSO. Demon’s website states “frame includes a Manufacturers Statement of Origin MSO for registration will be shipped separately for safety
A short while later I received my frame wheels and front end. I was pleased with the product and everything was going smooth. Now all I had to do was sit back and wait for my MSO to come in the mail. A few months passed and I still hadn’t received my MSO. At that point Isent them an email. No reply. A month later I sent another. No reply. A month later I sent another. No reply. I eventually called and was informed that they do not automatically send the MSO. They said the customer has to send an email requesting it. I was perturbed because this policy wasn’t stated anywhere on the website or conveyed to me in any email I checked. But I sent my email requesting my MSO anyway. To this email they did reply only it wasn’t the answer I wanted. Now I was told that they ALSO have a policy that the MSO must be requested within 3 months or it will cost you 75 to retrieve it. Now I was angry. How could they expect me to know policies that they don’t post? How can they expect me to submit a timely request if they don’t answer my emails? And now I have to pay 75 to get an MSO that I should have received almost a year prior for free! I haven’t checked their web site lately but after the hell I’ve raisedI’m betting they might be publishing their policies now
I consider myself a responsible courteous customer and as such I send a polite email letting them know about my situation. I attached all three of my unanswered emails. I let them know that they very well can’t expect me to know a policy that they don’t have written and if I had known I would have requested the MSO the very second that I received the frame.
To this I was told that I just need to send them 75 and I will have my MSO.
That’s it? Did they read my email? Are they even listening? no. no. no.
To see all my email traffic back and forth to Demon’s Cycle go to http://xlforum.net/vbportal/forums/showthread.php?t=75895
Well I eventually sent them the 75. But I am not finished. As a consumer you only have a few options when you are faced with a bad situation.
1. Suck it up and go on your way
2. Take legal action against them in court
3. File complaints
4. Talk
I opted for 3 and 4.Any smart business person knows that a satisfied customer may not talk to anyone about their experience but a dissatisfied customer will talk to as many people as they can. While it’s not fun to deal with unhappy customers it is necessary. I read once that “companies with crap service goad customers into uniting against them”. That is what I am hoping to do. They may not listen to me but the same internet that makes them successful makes me loud! When the cash starts to slow they might consider making the situation right.
Here’s my advice:
If you’ve been screwed don’t hope that things will change. Make them change. Hope is a substitute for action so get out there and shout post complain until things change.
If you’ve found this article trying to get reviews on Demon’s Cycle then you have a choice to make. You can buy from them and hope everything turns out well or you can join with me and wait until they start to treat their customers right. Either way do your research first!
Check out xlforum and hdforumsand search for Demon’s Cycle to read some honest customer reviews. Also remember to look at complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau of West Palm Beach as well as the Federal Trade Commission.
Always remember “In the beginning of change the Patriot is a scarce man Brave Hated and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however the timid join him for then it costs NOTHING to be a Patriot.” Mark Twain
About the writer: Max Manroe is motorcycle mania Max wrote this article on http://www.motorcycleguideline.com you also can check out another motorcycle guide there free!