Overbooking should be illegal

[Jorge Sanchez]

So I have been seriously considering getting a motorcycle for a while now. Two weeks ago I decide that I am going to do it, I get my license and start looking at which bikes to buy. After pricing a few bikes and getting some insurance quotes I decide that I will indeed be able to afford my monthly payments and insurance premiums if I take a safety course. So, in anticipation of my new purchase I registered for a training course at the local college, which I was supposed to take next weekend. I finally decided on a Suzuki GS500F and paid the downpayment on Friday. This morning at work I get a call from the dealership telling me that I was approved for financing. Awesome, I think to myself. I should be riding my new bike next week. But then, not 30mins later, I get a call from the registrar at the college telling me that they have overbooked the safety course and I will have to wait until the beginning of September to take it. Now I can't afford the insurance and have to wait until then to start riding my new bike. Not only is the delay a piss off in itself, but now, if I do decide to insure my bike in September, I will only have one, maybe two months before I have to store my bike for the winter and continue to make ridiculously high insurance payments for the 6-7months of inactivity.

I know you probably don't care, but I am pissed! Those jackasses at the college deserve to be shot.

[Unholy]

Yeah man, go in there with a saw'd off 10 guage and blow their brains out!

[-TIM-]

That sucks. I would hold off on buying the bike until next spring and save more for the down payment. You may even be able to get next years model by that time.

[bigpoppapump979]

couldnt have said it better myself

[nejar462]

I honestly actually always felt their should be some sort of penalty with overbooking in any form because it does seem like a breech of a verbal or possibly written contract.

[.maximum.]

props on picking the suzuki as a first bike...glad you didn't go the route of getting a literbike or even some 600cc rocket to learn on...good luck and keep the rubber side down! :-)

[Nuts]

Another town perhaps?

[southside]

it sucks, but u can cancel insurance in the months you dont use it..

[SW]

Those jackasses at the college deserve to be shot.


Now I get it. THIS is why civilians shouldn't all be allowed guns.

[Neil]

Cancel the insurance two months in and they will give you a pro-rated refund.

[mrelwooddowd]

I think that if he's making a payment on the bike, he has to keep insurance on it. Now, he should be able to get a "garage insurance" sort of deal, where he'll pay a very small rate for incidentals while it's parked all winter.

All this made me wonder why you're buying a bike, when the difference between a rider-instructed insurance rate and a regular rate is enough to break your budget.

[Gyno Rhino]

Now I get it. THIS is why civilians shouldn't all be allowed guns.

Let's not drag threads together.

[Gyno Rhino]

All this made me wonder why you're buying a bike, when the difference between a rider-instructed insurance rate and a regular rate is enough to break your budget.

I have to second this point.

Maybe your finances should be worked out a bit better? I hope you aren't spending all income over maintenance on getting a bike.

[Jorge Sanchez]

I CAN afford insurance without the course, but it is too high for me to want to pay that much. The difference is $1300/year. But I found an insurance company that charges the same price with or without the course, and it is actually less than my current insurance provider charges with the course.

[-TIM-]

Well hot damn! There's your solution. Happy riding.