Re: [St] Alas poor Sprint, I knew thee well

[JES_VFR <jes_vfr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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