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I think the thing is that for that amount of cash you and I would take the time to shop about, speak to a few folk about prices etc and get something that represents not only a damn nice bike for 1700 quid, but good value too.
This chap clearly hasn't, and although my mind does boggle at the prices on display at BLB, they are only there because people are willing to pay them. For that amount of money I could have a few weeks holiday, fly over to Italy and have fun hunting for vintage treasure myself and come away with an equally nice bike, a tan, a large belly full of pasta and wine and a big smile on my chops.
I just don't get how it's taken him a year to get his shit together to the point he's challenging what's been said and how much he's been charged-normally you do that before you buy, no?
Or am I being a massive cunt... I will admit I fail to sympathise with him in a large part because he is spending a shit load of cash and seems to not have the slightest clue-maybe he was conned but he doesn't seem to have done much to have helped himself.