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Re: [St] Alas poor Sprint, I knew thee well
- Subject: Re: [St] Alas poor Sprint, I knew thee well
- From: JES_VFR <jes_vfr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:35:16 -0400
At 04:48 PM 9/8/2008, you wrote:
So, to try and shorten this story for the masses...
At 96,398 miles I took the 2002 Sprint ST in for an overheating
problem. Donelson Cycle found the head gasket was leaking combusion
into the water jacket. I decided the $2700 rebuild of the motor was
financially better than buying a new bike. I got the bike back Fri
of Labor Day weekend and left for Eastern PA. I made it 100 miles
before the motor expired. Donelson did the autopsy last week and
found one of the valve heads broke off the stem in cyl #3, it
destroyed the piston, and all the shrapnel ended up in the lower end.
Today we talked options. Carl, the shop owner, offered me their
just delivered graphite coloured 2008 Sprint ST, non-ABS at their
cost, minus what I have in the rebuild of the '02, and they'll take
the '02 off my hands as well. I took the deal. So, once financing
is all approved I'll pick up the new bike in a day or so and start
all over again trying to put 100,000 miles on a bike myself.
Steven "Dirty Dawg" Kohlscheen
2001 Yamaha YZ426f
2002 Triumph Sprint ST(going away)
2008 Triumph Sprint ST(coming soon)
Steve, I'm stunned.
I mean I work at a dealership, and If I had just experienced the
mishap you did with the engine rebuild, I doubt that I would have
been offered such a deal.
Don't get me wrong, Vince the owner of my store, would have bent over
backwards and done a lot to make up for the tech's mistake.
I could probably foresee him absorbing the towing, and a complete
rebuild of a second motor, But not to eat the rebuild work and sell
you a new bike at the store's cost.
that is an incredible deal.
JohnS
A Dragon Ascending
"Forging my body in the Fires of my Will"
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