moab trip

[bufbooth]

Hello All, On Tuesday I did some Window shopping at my local Honda dealer that also just started selling Kawasaki. They had three KLR650s all lined up, one of each color. I have decided that Red is the color for me. The prices marked on the bikes were the full retail price, $5,599 plus Freight and Prep charges. I am assuming they were not applying the $300 rebate. I have found another Kawasaki dealer a few hours from me that is selling 2009 KLR650s for $4,599 plus Frieght and Prep charges. The $4,599 price is after applying the rebate. I think I am looking at a $700 savings between the two dealers. I just asked this dealer to send me a total out the door price, basically to tell me what the freight and prep charges are. What is the normal cost for Freight and Prep charges? Is $4,599 about the best price one is going to find? Thanks, Dennis...

[Jake Wilson]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "bufbooth" wrote:

> > What is the normal cost for Freight and Prep charges? >

~~~It used to be you'd only hear dealers trying to sell a bike for above MSRP from the off brand dealers (non JAP) that sold makes like Laverda, etc., now they're all trying to add spurious charges*. some folks will pay it so I guess you can't blame them for trying to get it Paying MSRP + tax is top dollar IMO and a lot of dealers will sell below that figure OTD *shipping and set up is included in the dealers margins charging MSRP. Others may have better and different ideas Jake Reddick Fla.

> > Hello All, > > On Tuesday I did some Window shopping at my local Honda dealer that also just started selling Kawasaki. They had three KLR650s all lined up, one of each color. I have decided that Red is the color for me. > > The prices marked on the bikes were the full retail price, $5,599 plus > Freight and Prep charges. I am assuming they were not applying the > $300 rebate. > > I have found another Kawasaki dealer a few hours from me that is > selling 2009 KLR650s for $4,599 plus Frieght and Prep charges. The > $4,599 price is after applying the rebate. I think I am looking > at a $700 savings between the two dealers. I just asked this dealer > to send me a total out the door price, basically to tell me what the > freight and prep charges are. > > What is the normal cost for Freight and Prep charges? > > Is $4,599 about the best price one is going to find? > > Thanks, > > Dennis... >

[Spike55]

Find a dealer that at the 'most' charges MSRP plus taxes. Dealer prep, freight, etc are all just extra profit. You'll need these hundreds of dollars to farkle your ride. If you plan to keep the KLR long term, a new '08 for less money is fine. There not much difference between selling 10 or 11 model yr old bike. Make sure that all of the recall issues have already been addressed on anything you do buy (I had lost one muffler bolt on a 2006). If you also plan on doing your own maintenance, I wouldn't care how far away I had to go to find a dealer with the 'right price'. Your local dealer will be happy to sell you replacement parts regardless of where the original purchase was made. Last Spring, my brother found a dealer near his hunting camp selling new '08s on eBay. He got a great price, it was along his normal route to the cabin, and he has never been back to that dealer again. We do all of the maintenance in my garage. A local dealer to his home did all of the recall work (muffler bolts & turn signals & wiring reroute) for free. No oil use problem with his. I don't hate dealers but fair is fair. MSRP already has profit in it and you'll be floored at times when you see what parts cost. There are some websites out there that sell OEM parts for less - bookmark them. If you never fall over and bend a lever, you're not having enough fun! Don R100, A6F

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "bufbooth" wrote: > > Hello All, > > On Tuesday I did some Window shopping at my local Honda dealer that also just started selling Kawasaki. They had three KLR650s all lined up, one of each color. I have decided that Red is the color for me. > > The prices marked on the bikes were the full retail price, $5,599 plus > Freight and Prep charges. I am assuming they were not applying the > $300 rebate. > > I have found another Kawasaki dealer a few hours from me that is > selling 2009 KLR650s for $4,599 plus Frieght and Prep charges. The > $4,599 price is after applying the rebate. I think I am looking > at a $700 savings between the two dealers. I just asked this dealer > to send me a total out the door price, basically to tell me what the > freight and prep charges are. > > What is the normal cost for Freight and Prep charges? > > Is $4,599 about the best price one is going to find? > > Thanks, > > Dennis... >

[Rick]

The Slickrock trail was founded by a motorcycle rider. You will still motos out there but mountain (peddle) bikes far out number the motos. I ride both on the trail.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Robert Waters wrote: > > Hello KLR riders, > This is a quick report of a great trip from Arkansas to Moab to wheel in the beautiful desert. My son and I took our bikes and road them for 3 days. We road Slickrock bike trail 4 times, twice each direction. It is a wonderful trail, especially for lighter bikes. I took my XT225, which by the way performed marvelously. No problem starting it in that altitude, which is a problem here. Must be too lean from the factory. And the stock gears were just fine. > > We road Fins and Things, Hell's Revenge and on another day three other trails. I believe they were Gold Bar, Spike and another I can't remember the name of...Golden Rim Maybe, the one that has the crack that is hard to cross. They all join. We started on one and wound up doing them all three, which was about a 45 mile ride. The most difficult part of the ride was where there was sand below a rocky difficult climb. The sand made it difficult to get any kind of run at the climb. > > I highly recommend Moab for bikes, especially the Slickrock trail. Almost 80% were mountain bikes (the motorless kind) so evidently the word is not out or dirt bikes are not so popular any more. It would be possible to do the trails on a KLR, if you are a big strong guy, but one would certainly need to lower the gears. I would not think of doing them on my KLR. > > Robert Waters > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >