Day 6 - 3/10/14 R&R day

We slept in today. Had a leisurely breakfast and than hung out on the sun porch. About noon we head over to Pete's. We take a ride to Melbourne and have lunch on the Indian River at a place called Grilles.

 After lunch we head back to Space Coast Harley to get my heel shifter and Mark needs to get a new headset cable. I get my parts but they are out of the headsets. This is a huge dealer and is currently the #1 dealer in sales. They have an aggressive sales team and supposedly pricing.  Mark & I had been looking at Ultra Limiteds yesterday afternoon when the parts & service were closed and had been approached by a salesman who "would run some numbers" for us. We told him that there's 7 of us together on the way back from Key West and we had to come back tomorrow anyway to get some parts. He gave us his card and said come see me. Joe & his friend Nick had each recently bought new Ultra Limiteds from this dealer and used the same salesman but a different guy than we talked to the day before. Joe introduces us to his guy and then the other guy comes over. Mark & I tell him we don't need a dog & pony show all we want to know is our existing bikes and how much for a new
Limited out the door. They tell us they have a process and it takes between 45 - 90 minutes to do a quote and work up a trade in value. So we tell them we'll do an hour. Each salesman took one of us and had us pick a color and tell us we'll be riding our new bikes home today. They need our license & reg. then they start with what do you think your bikes worth? I say just tell me "my bike & how much" is all I want to know. I'm not interested in playing games. We'll after nearly 2 hours Mark & I leave with our existing bikes. They had aggressive pricing on the bike but the trade value was low and kept getting higher to try an sweeten the deal. They also have a huge processing/document fee of over $1500 that they use to sweeten the deal by duscounting it. In the end Mark & I had got about an identical deal with his bike a year newer but around 25k more miles. Probably the best thing we did was not take the test ride as Joe & Nick told us you'll buy it if you ride it. We'll take a test ride on Joe's bike tomorrow. After the dealer we head back to IZ & Pete's who are making a BBQ for dinner. Of course this part of the trip gives us a Tom adventure/misadventure story. We are about 4 miles from Pete & Joe's exit and my gas light comes on. Mark & I had been doing better than Tom on gas consumption at the higher speeds so I ask Tom about stopping fir gas as we get off as thete is a gas ststion right off the exit as you go to Petes. Tom answers back that we'll get gas in the am on the way to Daytona. We pull up to Petes complex and Pete has to open the gate to let us go through. You can go left or right after the gate to Petes so everyone except Tom goes right. The two roads come together a little ways down but Tom's not there and as we look back down the road we see Tom is pulled over on the side. Mark & I go over and assume he's out of gas. He trys to start the bike and no luck. He statts to push it Petes and I go to Petes to get a gas can. As I'm pulling out to bring the can Tom rides in as he got it started again. I follow him to the gas station and the bike only takes 4.2 gallons. So now we are unsure why the bike shutdow. Tom thinks maybe the ignition module got hot but not conclusive.
We also after nearly 6 years finally got to see some of the video Pete took from our Alaska trip especially the "off-road" episode! We had a good time reminiscing about Alaska and sharing some stories with our new riding friends Dick & Nick as well as Dicks wife Bernadette and Joes new special partner Brooke. Tomorrow we're going to Daytona.