That would almost be worth the trip to fly and ride if true.
Invoice prices???
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Yeah, even for me. Especially since I still haven't heard boo from my dealer.
They must think they'll make it up on accessories. Oh, wait, there ARE no accessories yet! Not even a lousy CTX1300 keychain or T-shirt. (Believe me, I've looked!)
Sounds like a profitable business opportunity to me.Not even a lousy CTX1300 keychain or T-shirt. (Believe me, I've looked!)
Know anyone who does t-shirt screen printing?
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Actually I do. Since this is still a really limited market I doubt there would be much profitability yet, and you have to get a license from Honda (and probably pay dearly for it, too). But I have some graphic art background and have been thinking up some ideas.Sounds like a profitable business opportunity to me.
Know anyone who does t-shirt screen printing?
Wouldn't this make an awesome T-shirt?
Although, now that I think about it, if I wore a T-shirt like that it would always look like the guy was driving around a curve!
Speaking of T-shirts, I wore this one when I picked up the CTX1300:
GO BIG RED!
Just heard from one of the dealers I've been in contact with over the last many weeks. He told me a AK dealer really does have the deluxe priced at $14985, BUT they also add to that a Doc fee of $450 and freight of $390.
That makes it $15825 total OTD. They also have 22% off accessories.
What is the best price OTD (tax-title-license not included) that you all have found? That is, if you're willing to share. Don't feel obligated though. I know some like to keep their deals or financing to themselves and that's OK.
I'm really seriously considering this now.
And what accessories would those be? I'm curious, since none of the dealers seem to be able to order any of the CTX1300-specific accessories…like the tall windshield, which I expect would be the most popular one on the list. 22% off on universal accessories would be OK, but I can usually get prices even better than that from Amazon and I don't have to pay for shipping (Amazon Prime).
To be honest I've been having a hard time ordering certain accessories because of the peculiarities of the bike. For example, I would love to change the grips to black Kuryakin ISO grips, but it's hard to know exactly what size to get. The bike seems to have 1" diameter handlebars (from what I have read here), yet they taper down at the ends to a smaller size (7/8"? Something less?) for the grips. I guess I need to pull off one of them to measure it for sure, but of course nobody likes to mess around too much with a new bike for fear of screwing something up and making it unable to be ridden. I did it on the Shadow, though, so I guess I'll just bite the bullet and do it here. With the 2" or so of snow we had last night, it's unlikely that I'll be riding for awhile anyway.
That's why it's important to get a OTD (out the door) price from your dealer.
The dealer I've been working with on pricing told me he found a place in AK where they set the "price" on a deluxe at 14985... BUT they also have a 450 doc fee and a 390 freight charge that gets added to make the OTD price. The OTD price should include all of those fees/charges and any other added stuff that might not come standard on the bike. To that you should only have tax (or road use tax as in Iowa), title and license (plate) fees to come up with. I exclude those from the OTD price since those charges go to the state and not to the dealer. Our road use tax is 5% and the charges from the DOT (title/license) comes to about 55, verified a few days ago. So that AK dealer deal is an OK deal but not as good as some have reported here.
BTW- my dealer is willing to beat the AK deal and match what has been reported here for OTD price.
@Bokobob -- welcome to the forums!
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