Finding a 125

[bjarnold1]

I recently started searching for a Trail 125 in Washington, Oregon, Nevada Idaho and Utah with not much luck. I've found several dealers in AZ and in Vegas (RideNow) that have bikes in stock but after agreeing on numbers they quit taking my calls and won't respond via email. Does Honda have a policy where they won't sell out of state unless you physically sign the papers in the dealership?

 

[m in sc]

thats dealerships. They quote, you agree, next step is to send them money. I've bought across state lines many times. They may be perceiving you as a 'time waster' (im not being critical but I know how these things go). Did you have them work up a buyers order and send it to you? of was it just a verbal quote? unless its in writing, especially when not in the same state, it basically means nothing. To them, you might just be a tire kicker shopping prices. But that's not a 'honda policy' by any means to not sell across state lines. My CB1100 was dealer traded in, per my request, across state lines after i signed the buyers agreement. .02

 

[bjarnold1]

I inquired about a bike, they confirmed they had one in stock, they gave me a "rough" price and asked would I pay cash or finance. I said either one whichever is easier and to get me the out the door price on the buyers order so I know what the total is. The sales guy said no problem would I be picking it up or having it shipped. I said shipped and he gave me some recommendations. Never heard back after that

 

[m in sc]

maybe they sold it.. beats me they all work different.

 

[1wrenchguy]

Patience, at the end of the day it's just a trail125. It almost seems like if you don't think about it, they pop up. I put my deposit in last September 2021. Got notification I was #8, then #3, then today 8 months later I went down to sign. I bought mine at Del Amo Motorsports in Orange County, CA.

 

[op46]

Finding same with other bikes too. Started looking a new 2022 CB500Xs. Seems inventories are spoty but getting better. There are like less than 10 actually in stock of the CBs showing up as for sale in the entire country. Try to buy/find a new Toyota 4Runner too. All pre sold that are inbound, rare to find one on lot and those sell withing a week. I've been waiting on a RAM 2500 hemi gas that I ordered in November 2021, was build in March and is supposedly sitting on a storage lot in Texas for the last 4 months cause they can't get it shipped?! The country has changed in many ways since the introduction of the CCP virus and I am not sure its going to get better, maybe worse. My daughter is telling me there is a shortage of tampons too and she goes into the mens room to get them at work. WTF.....!!! I guess that is to be expected now that men can get pregnant and menstruate? She also tells me there is going to be blood in the street if/when the Roe vs Wade thing is over turned? Seems like the only places left in the world that have our old values in practice are Russia and some Muslim and Asian countries? The modern western world has lost its collective mind.

 

[bjarnold1]

Actually, A few days after I put a deposit on one locally and got on the waitlist (#24) I was told it would be a 1-2+ year wait. A practically new 2021 model with 23 miles went up for sale within 10 minutes of my house and I struck a deal on it.

 

[dmonkey]

Glad to hear you got one! The used market for these bikes is certainly growing as they roll out. Used + shipping seems like a much better option than playing games with a dealer and paying some of the high markups right now.

I ordered a 2022 Moto Guzzi V7 Stone Centenario E5 on 4/9/2022 and had it delivered from Mandello del Lario, Italy to Denver, CO in just under two months, picked it up 6/4/2022. Shipping delays seem to be hit or miss, there's certainly a lot of backlog to be worked through, staffing issues and wage stagnation, etc.

 

[SneakyDingo]

I recently started searching for a Trail 125 in Washington, Oregon, Nevada Idaho and Utah with not much luck. I've found several dealers in AZ and in Vegas (RideNow) that have bikes in stock but after agreeing on numbers they quit taking my calls and won't respond via email. Does Honda have a policy where they won't sell out of state unless you physically sign the papers in the dealership?

I did this route, following dealerships that were within 1000 mi of Seattle. You're going to see a bunch appear at the South Jordan dealership for sure. I eventually got mine from Carter Powersports in Vegas. My reasoning was largely to look for where the bikes were, look at how easy it was to fly there, and then contact the reps. South Jordan in particular never picked up the phone for me.

If you're using the Motohunt site to do this, a bit of a tip using Washington as an example. They're probably going to have another shipment going through either now, a little bit ago or in the very near future. When they go up, they'll have trucks dropping bikes off at several dealerships along the way. Motohunt works by looking at the inventory of various bikes where they haven't locked down that information tightly enough (usually by scraping, aka when the bike hits the inventory it is listed on the website automagically). Sometimes this process is very quick, automatically processed (e.g. large places such as Powersports dealers), sometimes it's slower and more manually entered (e.g. smaller distributions that are still large enough to list their stock on the web).

Those bikes will almost always be sold already to someone on the waitlist. What no one really mentions is that when Honda make deliveries (and I can confirm this is exactly how it went down for the most recent shipment to WA), I swear it was either a single truck, or maybe a few trucks, all driving up the major shipping routes. In WA's case, it was I-5 from Los Angeles to Seattle, then west along I-90. So like clockwork, you could almost predict bikes were going to appear at various dealerships. What Motohunt was NOT good at doing was those little dealerships that were along the way that don't list inventory in the same way. For that reason, there were bikes that popped up in Seattle, Auburn, Kent, Spokane that were appearing on the list, but Cle Elum (between Seattle and Spokane) didn't show up on the website at all.

If you're doing targeted searches for the bikes based on Motohunt or an equivalent site, don't just look at the dealerships listed on Motohunt. Look at the ones between those dealerships on major trucking routes. And especially focus on smaller dealerships.

EDIT: Also the crates contain two CT125's each. So they're always sold in pairs. Apparently they are not always sold in pairs.

 

[AZ7000']

EDIT: Also the crates contain two CT125's each. So they're always sold in pairs.

I disagree, my dealer got one...

 

[SLO]

I recently started searching for a Trail 125 in Washington, Oregon, Nevada Idaho and Utah with not much luck. I've found several dealers in AZ and in Vegas (RideNow) that have bikes in stock but after agreeing on numbers they quit taking my calls and won't respond via email. Does Honda have a policy where they won't sell out of state unless you physically sign the papers in the dealership?

I put a $ 500.00 dollar deposit over phone and had to wait about six months? around $ 4700.00 dollars out door ,tax ,tag , title, all fees etc. Big Rock Motorsports, New Bern NC. Jeff was
salesman, other guy working there had one come in ,and never called me as promised. Other guy said that was something that would sit around forever, and nobody would want it. I gave him my number
and months later stopped in ,and the same guy exclaimed, man that thing didn't last ten minutes! I was kinda pissed, and Jeff said that he would call when one came in. It was couple months later,he called and said they were expecting two to come in. I placed deposit,and delays/delays, finally arrived. Jeff likes motorcycles! Big Rock Power Sports. New Bern , NC.

 

[m in sc]

I disagree, my dealer got one...

same here, that's just not true. I saw mine in the crate before I took it. just one per crate. and i got the ONLY one they had for mos.

 

[dmonkey]

There's a video of uncrating an individual Trail 125 on YouTube

 

[SneakyDingo]

Hmm. Maybe they receive 2 crates at a time at some dealers then. I know all the dealers I was speaking to received them in pairs, but I was sticking to bigger dealerships often with "powersports" in the name.

 

[m in sc]

volume and csr numbers dictate how many a dealer can get of a particular model. thats all. They may order 5, but only get 1.

 

[B&B Miller]

New here. My husband and I had been casually looking for 2 trail 125's. Found some on Autotrader, on the east coast but several states away from us. Haggling was out of the question due to the scarcity of the bikes of course. Did the deal over the phone and paid using a wire transfer. Used Uship to get the bikes up to us. Biggest pain has been getting registration and tags. Our state won't accept the declaration of mileage sent to us by the dealer so I had to send back the certificate of origin to have the retail sales declaration filled out. Still waiting on that.... On another note, using Uship was good and bad. Once we set a price that the transport people found acceptable, we booked a dedicated motorcycle hauler and the wait began. Took almost 7 days to take delivery after pickup. We live on a dirt road and the hauler was not happy about the dust (understandable but what can you do?).

 

[dmonkey]

For hauler pick-ups and drop-offs I always coordinate to do them in somewhat level, paved, and uncrowded parking lots. I learned that from living on top of a hill that's off limits to large trucks and trailers. Something to consider if you ever get something else transported.