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I think you need to worry less about a "fee" and more about total OTD cost and the service the dealer provides. Legit support of the local scene? Good inventory? Knowledgable employees and technicians? Clean facility?

Every oem charges freight to the dealer, it’s normally around $600 for a full size bike. Occasionally OEM will give free freight, but it’s not common. This is a real actual invoiced line item to the dealers. Most dealers will mark it up a little bit, but not much. Common is also a prep fee, that’s the cost to take bike out of crate, build it and throw away the crate material. Takes an hour to three depending on the bike. But there is a real cost to this, usually just labor and the cost to dispose of the crate...

As an aside, margins on bikes are complete shit. Like 10%. Dealers make money on the ad on’s, fees, DMV fees, and financing. Regardless, you should support your local dealer. It is a really challenging business, margins are thin and customers can be hard as heck. Find someone that treats you well and return the favor to them.

If you can afford it, keep it for a while, ride it and worry about it later. Man, so sorry about your pop. Hang in there, bud.

If you have room and finances...keep that bike forever. Every time you wrench on it or ride it...you will think of your dad. Those memories will become more precious the older you get. Truth.

He's not wrong...

He's such a rascal.

Lol pretty sure J law was doing more then smoking weed

Lmao how little people know.

To be fair, he was all over IG, people helping him, Swap building him a bike for straight rhythm, and he was supposedly going to race again at some level.....and now silence. It's a reasonable question.

As of a couple months ago he was out of retirement. You're also on a motocross forum so we talk about races and riders.

Front wheel...traction control. Great first post.

Just realize that nobody cares how fast or slow you are. Nobody is really paying attention to you. The only thing that people shake their head at is seeing someone visibly riding over their head. So just take your time, hold your line, and have fun.

Dude it sucks so bad. The news cycle and political influencers on social media have so many people whipped into an absolute frenzy constantly. They try to politicize EVERYTHING here.

What I don’t do in the scenario is go moaning about it on the internet

Oh, wait, Ping called me the "Lord of the Idiots" recently.