I just want to put a plug in for these guys.
I bought my 02 GL1800 Road Smith from a fella in FL.
I knew nothing about the bike and they could tell me little about the history except they changed their own oil and filter. My dealer in Augusta will not work on the trike part of the vehicle. I had a service done: valves, oil, filter,etc. here. But I still wasn't comfortable with it's lack of history.
I drove to WOTS in Cherokee and as I pulled into town I noticed a little noise at low speeds. The first vendor I saw was Schroaders and they were selling a RS Trike GL1800. I asked one of the guys to come look at it. He left his booth , crawled under it and told me to bring it in Sunday morning to their shop and he thought he could fix it easily and he did.
While there I asked for them to go over it more closely and they did maintainance on the drive shaft, changed the brake fluids, but they found a problem in the steering ( bearings ).
Each step of the process they invited me into the shop to watch what they were doing. My rear front fender was broken and had been JB welded in the past.
Rather than go fenderless they took one off of another 1800 to replace mine and will order the replacement for theirs. I could either get the new onwe in orange or keep the silver one. I would just drive up to exchange. But I am keeping the silver. It matches the motor and blends in perfectly. Walking thru their show room and lot you find bikes with different parts missing where they did the same for someone else.
Walking in their warehouse, I counted I think 30 or more wings still in crates. There was a line of assorted and eclectic bikes. I asked about one and the owner said , "they aren't for sale, Yet anyway!" They were his collection.
I was their for 6 hours or longer, they got everything done.
They repeated to me several times, "you're only 3 hours away, we want to be your service dealer".
Some stuff I'll have done here in Augusta, but trike repairs will be done at Schroaders.
By the way there was another fella there from Alabama having work done. They had to order parts so he was going to be a layover till Tuesday.
I bought my 02 GL1800 Road Smith from a fella in FL.
I knew nothing about the bike and they could tell me little about the history except they changed their own oil and filter. My dealer in Augusta will not work on the trike part of the vehicle. I had a service done: valves, oil, filter,etc. here. But I still wasn't comfortable with it's lack of history.
I drove to WOTS in Cherokee and as I pulled into town I noticed a little noise at low speeds. The first vendor I saw was Schroaders and they were selling a RS Trike GL1800. I asked one of the guys to come look at it. He left his booth , crawled under it and told me to bring it in Sunday morning to their shop and he thought he could fix it easily and he did.
While there I asked for them to go over it more closely and they did maintainance on the drive shaft, changed the brake fluids, but they found a problem in the steering ( bearings ).
Each step of the process they invited me into the shop to watch what they were doing. My rear front fender was broken and had been JB welded in the past.
Rather than go fenderless they took one off of another 1800 to replace mine and will order the replacement for theirs. I could either get the new onwe in orange or keep the silver one. I would just drive up to exchange. But I am keeping the silver. It matches the motor and blends in perfectly. Walking thru their show room and lot you find bikes with different parts missing where they did the same for someone else.
Walking in their warehouse, I counted I think 30 or more wings still in crates. There was a line of assorted and eclectic bikes. I asked about one and the owner said , "they aren't for sale, Yet anyway!" They were his collection.
I was their for 6 hours or longer, they got everything done.
They repeated to me several times, "you're only 3 hours away, we want to be your service dealer".
Some stuff I'll have done here in Augusta, but trike repairs will be done at Schroaders.
By the way there was another fella there from Alabama having work done. They had to order parts so he was going to be a layover till Tuesday.
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