Road King Motors

Just got my bike looked at here because it was so close to my office and my bike was not running. Robert, the owner, was nice in helping me charge my battery. however, when i chose to get her repaired, it was a whole another story. the diagnosis after an hour and half labor was that i would need a whole new carb for $ 500 or have it rebuilt for $ 400! And all it needed was a pilot jet that was clogged. An hour’s work at best! I got my friend to do it for me.
The best part was when i asked him to return the bike to my office (5 mins away), suddenly it was a $ 65 charge! «minimum one hour».
Never again. I dont know how he runs his harley rentals, but i certainly am not recommending his mechanical services.

So I brought my old bike in that I had put together from parts to get it serviced for a cracked transmission case (wanted it welded). Got a call that the tranny was tired so I went for the rebuild. Roughly $ 2K. Got the bike back and it was put together wrong and with missing parts. The tranny works fine, but the oil lines were jimmy rigged to hold away from the pipes when there used to be a part that did the job. Surprise suprise– you can’t order that part from Harley– it’s not listed… Also the colil cover was hadned back to me unmounted– turns out the guy lost the clip to hold it on. The battery cover was put on wrong as well… Unfortunately the bike has sat for a couple of years so I didn’t notice all this until I took it out this spring. I was going to go back there for some other work to be done on the bike, but I can’t trust them to put it together right. I spent many hours bringing this thing back to life only to have someone carelessly handle its servicing. Its going to cost me additional money to search for the missing parts. Being that this was two years ago, I hope they have improved the quality of the service. I’ve had harleys for 25 years and been to a number of these shops…

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