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Budds BMW Mottorad Demo Day - May 26th

STARSHIP said:
My invitation stated clearly that rides are $25 in support of the Canadian Olympic Team.

BMW's support of the Olympic team is the 100s of thousands.

What are the other brands doing?
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All my communication was done through the phone and had no indication of which charity it was for. When I checked Budd's website I could not find any reference to the charity.

Also I didn't see anything related to the Canadian Olympic Team at the BMW booth. I honestly could have missed it, but I don't recall anything. The entire experience felt off. When I arrived I wrote down my name and details, gave the guy the cash and I got a card that matched up to a numbered bike.

It didn't feel like charity when they were demanding me to pay an additional $25 to ride another bike (After I just gave them $30... $5 more then the "minimum") Could you imagine if they tried to pull this on people demoing cars? :lmao:

In my opinion a charity is when you are voluntarily giving money for a good cause, not selling demo rides. Being told you need to go across the street to the ATM and pull out more money felt totally off.
 
BradW said:
Had the exact same experience at Open Road BMW a few years back before it became Serpa. I have no issue with giving to a good cause, just the way they approached it left a bad taste in my mouth.
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I agree... Some simple changes in communication would go a LONG way. Change the "pays" to "donate" and actually show some enthusiasm for the cause. Simply saying "Hey man the money goes towards a really good cause.." instead of the "no you need to pay $25 again" would change a lot.
 
Chasem said:
The demo ride was one gigantic congo-line of every single bike they have. Could they not have split this up, since they had numerous instructors or whatever. The person in-front of me was downright scary, seemingly never ridden with a group before. He almost dumped the bike numerous times, and would not keep up with the group. At the end of the ride, I was slightly annoyed from the terrrrrible riding. Anywhoo... we never reached highway speed and it was incredibly hard to get a feel of the bike. I was told we were not able to go on the highway because there was tons of traffic (Looked pretty clear to me......)
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Demo rides can be...interesting. I recall a Buell ride out of Harley Davidson of Toronto about 10 years ago. 5 minutes into the ride, the guy in front of me (wearing a beanie helmet, no-finger gloves and a vest) grabbed a handful of front brake, flipped the bike over and busted up his shoulder. End of ride, everyone. Please proceed back to the parking lot...
 
That doesn't sound at all like the pleasant experience I had there last year.
The route we took was quite interesting and fun, once we got out of the city.
I was lucky enough to be right behind the leader, so I didn't get to witness the antics going on behind.
If you think about it, demo rides really are the worst rides to go on, you have a group of people you have never ridden with, that are all at different skill levels, riding bikes they are completely unfamiliar with... It's amazing they put them on at all.
I have nothing but great things to say about Steven and his crew at Budds, it's too bad you didn't have a better experience. Perhaps the fellow you talked to was having a bad day as a result of some of the earlier rides.
P.S. the S1000R I rode was awesome!
 
Curious that I'm on Budd's email list and have got emails in the past but never got a notice about the demo day. I went in 2 years ago and expressed interest in a bike, was given the keys to go off and ride by myself for the next 90 minutes. Was very impressed.
 
CafeRay said:
So where is the receipt?
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Given the money goes into a can, I would suspect the only one that gets a receipt is Budds. Thank you all for your donations but we will take the credit.
 
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