{"id":13056,"date":"2025-12-06T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=13056"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:16:53","slug":"not-a-good-assumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/not-a-good-assumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Good Assumption"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, this is a huge mea culpa. I wrote last year about how I sold my 1999 Concours to Steele’s Cycle<\/a> and then a couple weeks later I looked on their site and they had a 1999 Concours listed as sold. Long story short, I assumed–there’s that word–that this bike was mine and they had cleaned it up a bit and had already sold it. Good for them.<\/p>\n

I did note, however, that the odometer reading was not what mine showed. I assumed–there’s that word again–that if you sold a bike to a salvage yard they would want to pull from their parts inventory to make the bike as cherry as possible for resale. Which may well be true.<\/p>\n

But I also assumed–again!–that in order to make the bike more appealing they had swapped out my instrument cluster for one showing fewer miles. Big mistake.<\/p>\n

I got a call today, Saturday, December 6, from Steele’s. Matthew was most unhappy and insists that I come over so they can show me my bike still sitting in their warehouse. He would not make that demand if it were not true so I have already deleted the offending post. And I will go over there on Tuesday, the next day they’re open, and we will have a discussion. And I am posting this as soon as I finish writing it.<\/p>\n

This is a huge public apology to Steele’s. I hope you can understand how I made this mistake. I sold you a bike, a couple weeks later I see on your site a bike just like mine–not a particularly common item 25 years after it was made–and assumed it was the one I sold. I was wrong. I apologize sincerely. I’ll see you on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, this is a huge mea culpa. I wrote last year about how I sold my 1999 Concours to Steele’s Cycle and then a couple weeks later I looked on their site and they had a 1999 Concours listed as sold. Long story short, I assumed–there’s that word–that this bike was mine and they had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biker-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13058,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}