I recently had my SV serviced there and noticed the following but was
in a rush and didn’t get round to asking them…Their show rooms / sales areas on the corner are shut and emptyTheir invoices no longer show they have a Suzuki franchiseTheir parts mircofiches weren’t Suzuki onesTheir website doesn’t doesn’t have a new bikes section anymoreI was more than happy with the service so that part of the business is still
working, at the moment anyway.
I was speaking to them a few months ago and apparently the shop’s landlord decided to hike up their rent so they told him to get stuffed! Now he has an empty shop premises and no rent whatsoever.
As you say though, still a nice bunch of people. I’ve never had my bike worked on by them but they seem very professional.
There should be some form of rent-capping for residential and business landlords - they are screwing people and businesses and act like parasites - and If they don’t like it then sell the f*cking property at a price people can afford to get the property market and the economy moving again.
An economy where an excessive amount of people make money as landlords in an inflated property market (like ours has turned into) risks (or has already become) a ‘rentier’ economy: parasitic monopolization of access to any (physical, financial, intellectual, etc.) kind of property and gaining significant amount of profit without contribution to society.
^^ +1
Landlords point you in the direction of countries like Amsterdam or Germany where the majority of people rent. What they omit to tell you is that most of those properties are housing association or council owned, and rents are capped. I don’t know the specifics in the two countries I mentioned, but it’s taking the piss in this country.
I used to take my first bike to Don and Andy and I think they’re really nice. I never knew anything about bikes at the time, but even as a noob I never felt like they were having my eyes out.