I'm amazed how many guys work as salesmen at bike dealerships that don't know shit about bikes. At my local yamaha/honda/kawasaki/suzuki/polaris dealer in town, which is also the biggest or second biggest dealership in the state, there are constantly young guys like 19-21 who approach you to try to sell you a bike and they start talking about it and you can instantly tell they're a bunch of squids who have no clue what they're talking about.
A friend of mine bought a brand new Ninja 650 a while back and he was new to bikes so he asked me to go to the dealership with him and ride it back. I sat with him through the sales guy speech that they give everyone about how to maintain it, break it in, tires, and all the other basic stuff, and after we left I just told him to ignore pretty much everything he said. At one point the guy was bragging about how he put race tires on his ZX10R and was leaving all his buddies behind on their squid rides around town because the tire was "that much grippier" :coocoo....keep in mind we have no curvy roads here! Of course that guy or his zx10r had never touched a race track...
