Gettin’ around betta’
January 31, 2012
I recently ran across this video, which a YouTube comment indicates is for a dealer in San Diego, circa 1969. What’s significant about it?
• It’s a TV commercial for a scooter dealer.
• It mentions all the advantages of scooter riding/ownership.
• The dealer is open seven days a week.
That is all. 
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I can only think of one 2-wheel or power sports dealership in my experience open 7 days a week – Seattle Cycle/Scooter Center on Aurora. Hell, even being open Sunday is a rarity.
Orin:
Rideaway Motors (Kymco Dealer) is open 7 days a week up here. You can get an oil change on Sunday if you want, or anytime in the evening by prior arrangement. I have gone Thursday night at 7pm.
Motomethod: also works nights and weekends for motorcycles, by arrangement. They will even pickup your bike if not rideable.
bob
Riding the Wet Coast
And that’s the point… a dealer that’s open when most people are able to come by and, y’know, buy a scooter, is very much the exception to the rule.
I’ve run across a number of online wailing circles resulting from the closure of scooter/motorcycle dealers in the last several months, and going to the defunct dealers’ Web sites shows business hours that made the “banker’s hours” of my youth seem like a shift in a Chinese electronics factory. 11-5, Tuesday – Friday? That’s IT? Really..?
cutting hours is a misguided attempt at cost savings. actually i would say that most businesses should be closed sunday so employees could have that day off. But, it would totally rock seeing a dealer open on sundays. i just wish scooters could cost less, so more people could try it out. it all seems so simple. lol
James John, the Detroit Scooter Examiner, Ron Arnold, recently wrote about a scooter dealer in Florida run by a guy who GETS IT. While they’re not open on Sunday, they are very generous with test rides (“the ride is what convinces people,” he says), and their product line skews cheaper (Benellis are actually pretty good bikes). The guy is a full-blown scooter evangelist, something the biz really needs these days…