teknik service

[Nathan HeatherMember]

So I found my spring in the back of the gg a bit light on for my heavy ass and decided while I service all the bearings in the linkage and swingarm I would replace it with a suitable spring. Rang around and found teknik do a very fair price. So I went with them and while on the phone he was more than helpful and gave me a few tips on the bearing service also. Then I thought this bloke seems ok when I get my spring there will be one of those stickers I saw a while back on here so I will slap it on to spread the word but someone must have forgot it! :silly: Oh well I guess I will have to wait for the shock service to get one other then that I found the blokes great.

Nato.

[Andrew popeMember]

I take it there was no sticker? Ill let Nick know today and try and get a few in the post. 😆 did you just want the one with the shock info sticker and or a set for the front forks?

KR

[Peter HornMember]

The front fork ones must be made of the same stuff as Supermans suit, the rest of my bike looks reeeeeaaaal second hand but them fork stickers is shiny and new!!

[Nathan HeatherMember]

Id luv some mazzochi ones for the forks and teknik ones for the rear if they have them!! Cheers KR

[Harold WithingtonMember]

Yep I found these guys great
helped me setting it up over the phone even though they were flat out

my sticker looks the part as well

[Nathan HeatherMember]

——h—— wrote:

Yep I found these guys great
helped me setting it up over the phone even though they were flat out

my sticker looks the part as well

I missed out on the stickers

I got the gift pack a while back though.

[Nick DoleMember]

Hi guys,

The sticker thing. We used to put a little decal in all the spring boxes with i was having them printed in NZ by the same people who make the decals for Air NZ. True! But their price went through the roof and we ran out. Now we have a few types of decal, two types we use on engines and guards, one settings decal and the fork decals.
Presently there are no decals in spring boxes. The little ones we have, now that they are made in the USA are about $2 each our cost. I need to get onto some Chinese decal manufacturer but I’ve not done it yet.
The big fork decals are what most people want. they cost me $3.50 each, $7 a pair so I tend to not hand them out like confetti. If you would like a set, send the pregnant lady, Ash, an email on sales@teknikmotorsport.com and a set will turn up in the mail with a few more decals to boot.

Lastly spring prices. Old Bulls need to understand you guys get a very special price. As i’m the importer and technically the manufacturer of suspension products such as springs, valving kits and other consumables in this country I sell to most of the other people you called to compare my price to theirs. As you guys can appreciate this puts me in an awkward position, I can end up competing with my own dealers, not what I want. To avoid this situation and the impending loss of customers for us I set my retail prices HIGH for springs so my dealers can under cut me and make the kind of profit they need to stay in business on the fair ship AUSTRALIA.
So, when you call up and I cut an OLD BULL a great deal please don’t mention how much on forums for the world to see. I’ll never sell anyone a spring for less that I sell a spring to a dealer, lets make that clear.
Ill always look after the dealers as they are the backbone of the business, if the dealers start complaining that I’m shafting them by selling to the public too cheap then I’ll stop doing the OLD BULL discount, this includes the DR650 and Tenere deals.

Nick

[peteMember]

Sounds more than fair to me Nick
Thanks for your support.

PTW

[GregMember]

Teknik wrote:

the pregnant lady, Ash

ASH IS PREGNANT :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:

TB

Thanks for your support Nick

[Nathan HeatherMember]

Teknik wrote:

Hi guys,

The sticker thing. We used to put a little decal in all the spring boxes with i was having them printed in NZ by the same people who make the decals for Air NZ. True! But their price went through the roof and we ran out. Now we have a few types of decal, two types we use on engines and guards, one settings decal and the fork decals.
Presently there are no decals in spring boxes. The little ones we have, now that they are made in the USA are about $2 each our cost. I need to get onto some Chinese decal manufacturer but I’ve not done it yet.
The big fork decals are what most people want. they cost me $3.50 each, $7 a pair so I tend to not hand them out like confetti. If you would like a set, send the pregnant lady, Ash, an email on sales@teknikmotorsport.com and a set will turn up in the mail with a few more decals to boot.

Lastly spring prices. Old Bulls need to understand you guys get a very special price. As i’m the importer and technically the manufacturer of suspension products such as springs, valving kits and other consumables in this country I sell to most of the other people you called to compare my price to theirs. As you guys can appreciate this puts me in an awkward position, I can end up competing with my own dealers, not what I want. To avoid this situation and the impending loss of customers for us I set my retail prices HIGH for springs so my dealers can under cut me and make the kind of profit they need to stay in business on the fair ship AUSTRALIA.
So, when you call up and I cut an OLD BULL a great deal please don’t mention how much on forums for the world to see. I’ll never sell anyone a spring for less that I sell a spring to a dealer, lets make that clear.
Ill always look after the dealers as they are the backbone of the business, if the dealers start complaining that I’m shafting them by selling to the public too cheap then I’ll stop doing the OLD BULL discount, this includes the DR650 and Tenere deals.

Nick

Sorry Nick I didn’t realize that is how it all works so I edited the ooriginal post.
Thanks again for the spring

[Nick DoleMember]

This wasn’t an OLD BULL but this is what dealing with the public is like for us.

Guy orders a set of 0.70kg/mm fork springs for his BMW GS800. I have them made in little runs of 4 to 6 pairs in the US and air freighted out.

He calls and complains they do’t fit. I ask if he’s read the instructions. he explains he shouldn’t have to it’s just fitting springs. He’s pissed off he needs to cut spacer material to set the preload, tells me I should do that. So I send him some plastic spacers express post. He calls again and says he doesn’t want shit plastic spacers. So i send him Delrin and washers. Still not happy, Race Tech has aluminium spacers, why can’t we.

I try to explain as calmly as I can, with the collapse of Australian manufacturing over the last 30 years, the availability or raw materials in this country has also become scarce. I can only get aluminium this wall tube in 35.5 and 44mm, not the 40.5mm he needs. In the US you can get it in an imperial size, that’s what’s in their boxes. (I have spent so much time chasing tube it makes my head spin, even Yacht mast tube) I can buy any tube I want from China but it’s a 500kg minimum order. i’ve never had a plastic tube fail, it’s lighter and does noy shed debris if it rubs on anything.

Still not happy, wants a refund, but he gets to keep the product for his time I’ve wasted. He tells me how many BMW forums and Adventure rider forums he’s on and will tell everyone how bad my products are. I explain I’ll need to product back for a refund. He refuses, says he does not have time till after the BMW Safari. OK, whatever.

So I get the springs and all spacer material back today. It’s all been used. In the Safari I presume. He’s still demanding his refund and I have little choice but to give it to him as you all know the power of forums and shit canning a business.

So, two things standout.

The power of the people can be misused. Consumer laws vary from state to state, if you read them it’s scary. WA is the worst.
Second, I wish Ford and Holden would stay, we drop the minimum wage, abolish unions and start manufacturing again so little businesses like mine can buy from the spin off companies that supply the car makers. My purchasing ability in Australia is about to get worse with yesterdays Holden news.

[Harold WithingtonMember]

Just no pleasing some people is there
I can’t imagine what its like to own a retail store in todays climate, we had trucks 4 years ago and that was bad enough, having owned and operated a business I tend to not ask for discounts because I knew what it was like when people would tell me what other companies quoted and it was always well under what it would cost me to do the job BUT if I feel Im being ripped off then I will have my say

Rest assured I was happy with your service

Im pretty devastated both icons(FORD MAN) will be leaving but with nobody willing to support them I guess they have no choice

Cheers buddy

[Nick DoleMember]

I became a FORD man in the late 80’s when Bruce Forsyth and Reverend Bob Pinnel showed me how easy it was to get 350 real HP from a 351 clevo. It was in an era when registering a Ford Capri with a 454 was LEGAL. Bruce’s Capri did a best of 9.8 seconds at the old uphill Eastern creek strip. That was an engine built from JUNK.
The Clevo’s were so plentiful and cheap, it taught me the value of a combination of parts, not just the most expensive parts. Seeing Chock in WOG-007 pulling wheelies in that orange 351 powered cortina.

All good fun. Proof that a road registered 351 in a Cortina could do a 10.8 with a top loader and a $2500 engine on pump fuel, no gas. You can even run the 4 cyl bonnet if you don’t use an air filter. Try to get a 350 Chev to do that in 1989.

[Eric SmithMember]

Teknik wrote:

This wasn’t an OLD BULL but this is what dealing with the public is like for us.

……

Nick, I hear ya. It isn’t just retail or manufacturing being hit either. I’m a surveyor and own my own business, which for 23 years has been dealing with the local council. Suddenly they decide to change staff, and what do you know, one of the new staff prefers another surveyor. Well, OK, fair enough I guess. Except that I’m the only surveyor in town. Oh, and I was not asked to quote on any jobs that were tendered. Nor was anyone, including the clown who got the work. Oh, and the guy who got the work is not even in the next town.. he’s located 120km away!

So I complain to Council, I live here, should have the chance to quote, and if I miss out I’ll learn to sharpen my pencil. What’s more, every other local council has a local purchasing policy which gives preference to local suppliers, so I’m at a disadvantage in all other council areas as well as in my own area.

Next thing I know I get a request for a quote… good, right? Well, maybe, given that I was asked to do the quote on a Monday, with the quote completed by Tuesday, work starting on Friday and completed in the next week. Don’t tell me this other surveyor wasn’t already lined up for the job… which I didn’t get. Incidentally, the job was to survey a road for design, getting levels done etc. The other surveyor is reported to have mounted his GPS to the ute and driven along the road – accuracy? What accuracy? My method was to have taken individual measurements (with checks) and guarantee each measurement to an accuracy of about 10mm for height. No good quoting if you quote to supply apples when the other guy quotes on providing horse shit. Compare apples to apples please.

I’m so sick of chasing clients for money, especially given they know before they start how much they are going to be charged, and sign forms to say they’ll pay. I even had a client complain about my work the other day (first time ever) after we called to get her to pay the bill! Idiot woman will end up in court, losing, for the sake of a few hundred dollars.

It is a shame you don’t know about clients like this poor excuse for a human you’ve dealt with before they walk in the door (or call/email as more often happens now). I wish you all the best with it, but I think this country is a dead duck.

[alanMember]

:laugh: 😆 😆 buisness owners winging sound like cocky s.350 chevs rock i reckon

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