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 cleaned it up a bit and had already sold it. Good for them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
