HDS 79 - Dealers are Lazy, Greedy and Arrogant

[@cutbartus8049]

I hope the man he is talking about happens to see this video. Then tell his side of the story.

[@lukeamato423]

It's about his crack dealer , he's just replaced the word crack.....with bike

[@toxicnerveYT]

I've started saying "Whyyyyyyyyyy?" like Matt. Winds people up a treat, which gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing.

[@liamtaylor93]

The bike is only known as damage when it sits alone. But when Delboy jumps on it achieves its final form.. Brain Damage.

[@Walt_G]

Tesco is exactly the same, if you turn up at 3am the security guard gets all stroppy and won't let you in, just because its closed.

[@bradleybatt1401]

Damage has got to be the most accurate name Del has given a bike after he's worked on it.

[@religionispoison6838]

Little did old mate the "dealer" realise ,he unknowingly saved that bike from being DELstroyed.

[@DavesInHisGarage]

Anyway, let's not forget he used to be a "manager of a dealers" 😂😂😂

[@spigot993]

This is a clear view into Del's psyche, someone isn't bending to his will, or doing as he wants; toys out the pram.

[@LColUK]

Strangely enough when I bought a bike recently, I went to the shop when it was open, did the paperwork they needed me to do, and paid the money that was required to get the bike - because that's how shops work. If I phoned my greengrocer and said "hello mate, here's my life story... now that's out the way, can you bag me up a couple of turnips and I'll try and pop in to get them when I come out of the pub on Saturday night", he'd unsurprisingly tell me to piss off.

[@IANPARRr]

When your selling a bike or even a car how many people say there coming to see it and don't show up? LOADS! that man not going to stay on late for someone who may or may not show up. The bikes forsale I am open Monday to Friday and close at 12 on a Saturday. If you want the bike come and get it. It's as simple as that.

[@terryatkinson899]

Del thinks the world revolves around him. He probably rang yer man up and said "hi, its del here, you have probably heard of ME"🤮

[@rennied2]

Can't stand guys like this who expect a dealer to suck them off and bow down to them for buying a product. Turn up and buy it if you're serious. His ego and arrogance are incredible.

[@soulrider678]

Del the only person who can tell his side of the story from his perspective and still sound like the most entitled knob going

[@dirtygarageguy]

That's why it was so funny. He's skeeing the story and he still sounds like the knob

[@gizzync1525]

1 of the best places my bike ever went to sounded just like this place. amazing mechanics.

[@KrikkitWarlord]

The massive slice of irony with him now (badly!) doing dealer servicing

[@Drainingtheswamp2022]

if he stopped filming those dramatic entrance scenes his battery's might last a bit longer😂

[@Walt_G]

I was told that a single pair of indicators in the bar will pass an MOT as they are visible from both the front and rear, but they won't pass an MSVA test as rear indicators need to be within about a foot of the rear most point of the bike.

[@leoa4c]

Jesus... he has aged 20 years in the last 10! It must be the effects of copper grease addiction.

[@fredmercury1314]

Colchester Kawasaki. Crescent Suzuki in Poole. Both excellent dealers. Good staff, good salesmen, great service.

[@whiteryno1989]

i find my weed guys like that

[@barryhemper2141]

I know the place he is talking about. It's not on a back street. It's in a main road. I'm 58 years old, I was going there to get mot's on my Fizzies year's ago. They're still trading now. Yes they're a busy little independent bike shop, still doing mot's, servicing and selling decent second hand bikes, there's always 2 sides to a story

[@gingernutpreacher]

Fizzeys?

[@Honkawsuzyamal]

@@gingernutpreacher Yamaha FS1E. Every 16 year old's go to moped when the riding age was raised to 17 in 1973

[@barryhemper2141]

@@gingernutpreacher just goes to show how long they've been in business. Obviously a "dodgy dealer". Still run by the same family

[@gingernutpreacher]

@@barryhemper2141 I remember watching this a while ago and thought there was something dodgea but it's a del classic to glance over he was telling him a story about his bike's could Ben 5 mins could of been 15 understand why he said can cou be quick

[@johnneild3914]

Del said once he worked in a bike dealers

[@togglescrawford511]

When he was fitting renthal bars to the bandit, he said it was dangerous to drill holes in them !

[@calummurray7235]

Reminds me of my kids having a temper tantrum at 2/3 years old because they don't understand the entire planet doesn't revolve around them.

[@mattblackledge9068]

I sent this to you because of the irony... he self admits to being a bike dealer for years and claims to have sold thousands of bikes.

[@dirtygarageguy]

He was also in the paras...

[@miff227]

​@@dirtygarageguyis this stolen valour?

[@colinculverwell325]

The thing Del doesn't realise is that these 'dealers' are totally unaware they are so hated by him and probably wouldn't care even if they did. The only person getting stressed and losing out here is himself.

[@metalmad89]

I've worked in a couple of bike dealers (as a tech) and all the salesmen knew what they were selling inside out, all the figures, all the accessories, they knew a damn site more about them than I did, I just fixed shit, didn't care about the ins and outs.

[@bradleybatt1401]

For anyone wondering about excellent connectors. Deutsch DTM connectors would work a treat on bikes. Super easy to depin should you need to rewire. Then just buy a load of spare male and female pins for them. Job done.

[@inevespace]

DTM cost like crazy. All oem style water proof connectors do same job and cost nothing. Easy to depin with small screwdriver too

[@bradleybatt1401]

@@inevespace about £6-9 depending on how many pins for a complete kit using the F-crimp terminals.

[@inevespace]

@@bradleybatt1401 meanwhile oem style connectors less than 1 and used everywhere, like DJ7021

[@jediknight1294]

The bar end indicators, the important thing is that they fulfil the legal requirements in the MOT regs for distance visibility and the Construction and Use requirements for distance from the frame and centre of the bike to prevent yiu getting a ticket from a copper. If its OEM on a vehicle sold in the UK and breaks construction and use requirements that will have a Type Approval for that specific thing. So there's no guarantee you can do a thing just because a company does it. Mirror indicated indicstors are legal on some bikes but whether they are actualy legal for anyone to put in a bike... Is more complicated. The ONLY Way to tell on a custom bike is to take it through SVA approval. (which most of Dels bikes SHOULD HAVE because they are at the extensive frame modification level.) so the only answer is I don't know. The Motogadget stuff is actually pretty good, the M-unit kit is really solid, the bar end indicators have ECE and TUV approval sooo the best answer you can get is 'probably'. The front approval only is because of the German TUV regs which are... A very specific set of regs and more restrictive than the UK regs. Also that bike rack... Fuck me and I thought the wheelchair mounts that use the pillion seat space could be sketchy.

[@chasejdmartin]

Would a dealership open at 4 in the morning for you to buy a second hand bike?

[@11metalfan]

If it was very recently second hand, (as in, without the owner knowing about it) perhaps

[@SPROCK3TMONST3R]

In America everyone says Si-mon-eyes for Simoniz. I honestly never heard Sim-own-eez until I first heard you pronounce it that way. Tomato, potato, to each thier own.

[@michaeldemetriou1399]

Not a dealer could have set him up to have his wedge robbed on a Sunday evening in a South London alley. He is a target waiting to be skanked.

[@Peter-u7l1y]

Motorcycles in New Zealand must have indicators front and back for their warrant of fitness same as cars. I think there is even rules on how far apart they must be and maximum distance apart they can be.

[@Honkawsuzyamal]

He's clever he doesn't sell ALL his shite - he makes a step ladder out of them.

[@presstodelete1165]

No one in their right mind would want a "cutomer" like Dell, there are more than a few out there and they are best refered to someone stupid enough to get tangled up with them. How would Dells dealerless world work?

[@jediknight1294]

Being able to get bikes direct from the manufacturer rather than being forced into dealing with them by law would be nice as would being able to buy and access the tools needed that the dealers make inaccessible via insane prices (15k to purchase the software to get a vehicle to recognise a part iv installed or clear codes off the dash after the repair so it doesn't fail an mot for having an error code and needing to buy a laptop at 4x what it's worth from them to run it.) would be much nicer nicer. Right to Repair and forced to make it possible for independant to compete. The manufacturer franchise dealers are an issue.

[@gamekeeper687]

@@jediknight1294I mean the specific issue you mentioned isn’t a thing on bike MOTs as engine lights aren’t failures as such, but I get your point. Systems like TEXA are great for indies but they don’t hold to a manufacturers own diagnostics

[@jediknight1294]

@@gamekeeper687 it's an issue though, the car side any error code on the dash is an mot fail regardless of what that issue is or if its been fixed. So a BMW which needs a new tpms sensor you replace the fucked on and then have to go pay a dealer to flash the code because the private mechanic and most independant can't swing the 20k it costs for the software. Bikes are fairly simple but.. Eventually we will get the same fucked rules as the aim of various groups is to make cheap vehicles les prevelant and harder to own your own transport in general has become the policy. We need a right to repair law that actually forces this stuff to be accessible and not in the American way if 100$ charge for one time use for one vehicle that their rtr law ended with the manufacturers offering.

[@gamekeeper687]

@@jediknight1294 I’m not disagreeing mate we’re on the same side I get what you’re saying, and I’m from the main dealership big brand world. Code readers generally are great for reading codes funnily enough and deleting them and maybe setting a service light here and there, but yeah you need the manufacturers own diagnostics for coding TPMS, various ECU’s and running good tests etc, which is pain when I’m working on ‘non’ franchise bikes

[@SimonForrester-c2k]

One of his bar end fasteners is a plasterboard wall fixing

[@mygreatbigfoot1679]

Would you buy new again? Indicator timing for leds? Resistor,transistor,cap +Basic 555 timer? How do they do it?

[@chasejdmartin]

I bet the true conversion went like this. "Hello. Im intrested in the bike you have for sale." "Yes its still available." "Well. About the price. Im a famous youtuber. You may have heard about me. I have a channel called Del Boy's Garage. If you can work with me on it i can give you some free exposure etc etc." "Oh you're not that arsehole are you?" Phone hangs up. "Fucking parasites space exclamation"

[@robhall5622]

I thought Del was a bike dealer himself back in the day...

[@thestigsgermancousin4479]

A bike dealer probably would have told him to bugger off on a Sunday, too

[@StoicRiding]

About those indicators, I don´t know, if you are concerned with the position, scratching or breaking and the cost, why now leaving regular indicators with a bulb in the body or somewhere in the front end with a bulb that you can change for less than 1 pound without the need for the circuitry for led turn signals... Edit: I suppose it won´t weight similar to the bar end weights, another thing why I don´t like bar end mirrors or signals.

[@jackking5567]

Perhaps Del would like to start a dealership of his own? He 'repairs' random bikes now, fabricates parts for them and has quite a fleet of bikes that never get used.

[@ronr6605]

Since it takes thousands of hours even years to make them bikes proper beef he would run out of business soon cos he could run in a claim regarding Customer Rights Act. Another years to repair or more fix the fucked up stuff for free will not be helpful. He better stays Amateur but Professional and keeps trolling youtube with his delusions of grandeur. 😅

[@greggbrassett6989]

My dad used to call it ‘Simon eyes’ 30 years ago.

[@doctorgravel8572]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2OslmqmqquJrLs Even the Three Stooges could use it. Perfect for Del!

[@johnriley9214]

Career? Bus driver , master mechanic? head of bogding?😮

[@twowheelsquirrel]

Hold on, didn't apparently work in a dealership? There's a video of him talking about it I'm sure. One if his really early ones.

[@bullydia]

Thought he had a dealership in the past??

[@charlie_sin_mag]

You should have a look at the video showing how the Motogadget glassless mirrors are made. They got some great product generally, but fuck me are they pricey. The indicators are handed because there are null points in the design so the rider isn't blinded by flashing LEDs, but the lights can be seen from the front, rear, sides and diagonally. The M-unit is worth a look too if you have to wire a bike from scratch, or even just rewire a bike entirely

[@stefanbrown8176]

i know Mirrors and indicators are in the same grey area if you have them they must work if they dont they must be removed or can be removed, same as a Day time MOT with track bikes with no lights

[@amalconcentric898]

Right, I know the entire story here..Dell rang this poor old boy...(think arkwright from open all hours..)... "Hi I'm dellboy from the you tube and I do bike fings innit.." Bloke says "fak off you fakking kant...you ain't having my bike...I've seen wot you does to em....apples an pears..jellied eels etc..." Then hangs up. Dell needs a hug...none forthcoming from Penny as she's just had a full service by the whole of REME..so he goes for the sympathy rant. There.

[@mygreatbigfoot1679]

They are arrogant, tried asking the first female i’d ever seen working in a bike shop. She dismissed my polite ask if i could try sitting on their most expensive bike in the shop probably (pan-european) and walked away, that Honda shop in central Brighton isn’t there anymore, neither are Pride &Sharks. But PHP in Crawley are still there ffk. They let me sit on the bikes there and gave advice, the sort of establishment it’s a joy to visit.

[@tikka1999]

He got the Busa off a dealer, because he wanted to sue them when he snapped the exhaust bolts. Plus all those new triumphs he has had

[@gamekeeper687]

Of all the things I find that make being a spanner monkey at dealerships undoubtedly more miserable in your everyday job, is a customer like Del here. Most techs I’ve met will gladly go the extra mile for a grateful and polite customer but people like Del just makes your life more difficult and frustrating than it needs to be, resulting in people fucking him off to try and get rid of him

[@cblaster171]

Jedi mind trick for the algorithm

[@rick66649]

Yes 😊 got a double bill..that long story about the bike dealer thing ..really do believe Dels making it up..so

[@andrewuk184]

Del is such a strange, odd character in so many respects, especially "early" Del. He has such a huge ego, even though he is obviously so full of shit. I sympathise with the dealer in this story completely. No one would want a customer like him. Remember how he called the dealer who sold him the Hyabusa because he wanted him to pay for the repair on the broken studs.

[@DavesInHisGarage]

You can press and hold ctrl and use scroll wheel or + or - to zoom in our out on web pages

[@screamingcustoms]

I think Del has forgotten that he used to sell bikes at Powerhouse motorcycles Kinson Dorset🤔oh what happened to that place I wonder😜

[@dannykimble7671]

Think the mot tester he talked to didn’t realise he wasn’t going to have indicators on the rear, yes these are legal but only for the front. That’s my opinion.

[@malcolmyoung7866]

'Just a TURD....'

[@bradleybatt1401]

The reason they probably aren't legal is you could obstruct the indicators with your hands.

[@MrPlod999]

it's just asking for an accident .... those indicators are NOT visible enough from the rear or front views.

[@killzone32]

Next time one of his bikes is for sale at the dealership would you go and look at it?

[@leanatale7251]

200 miles to London, where on the south coast does del live??

[@Mtthwpez]

Well now. Del certainly changed his tune while currently doing bikes up for a dealer now, didn't he.. Two-faced Del strikes again! They guy wasn't even a dealer; he sold parts, not bikes. At best he was a private seller and all bets are off with that..

[@MrPlod999]

It's been S-eye-mon-eyes since forever...

[@peterpearce8867]

Didn’t Del say he used to ‘run a dealership’? I assume he was *always accomodating* and bending over backwards to help all his customers?😂

[@Walt_G]

I thought he was a salesman at a bike dealers but was now working as a bus driver. although I can't actually remember where I heard that.

[@peterpearce8867]

Yes I heard his actually say all of that “I ran a successful dealership for many years” “doing a split shift on the buses…”

[@GeorgeEI7KO]

Del wouldn't run a fucking bath the mong.

[@A_S_100]

@@peterpearce8867 Yeah, like a piss take of On the Buses where Del drives the bus and makes a little detour from the bus route to stop by the dealership and sell a bike whilst the passengers wait on the bus parked by the side of the road for 30 minutes wondering what's happening.

[@forevercomputing]

Pick your plate. Not much of a selection. So I chose the last 2 letters as GT

[@ianhoyle8459]

Del-elusions of grandeur, as usual. I’ll grace this dealer with my presence and because I’ve got the money (£200) I will begrudgingly agree to his price but to overcome my little man syndrome I will only make the transaction after describing my entire life story and then arrange collection at the most inconvenient of times well out of working hours… 😀 Tool! Ha ha ha 😂

[@Davidthomasv8]

The law says the indicators must be fixed to the front and rear of a motorcycle and their is a minimum and maximum of height they must be. and the lenses have to conform to a certain standard ???

[@tonysilva5558]

We do pronounce it Simon eyes here in the States...

[@zombiebiker5581]

I think Del wanted it cheaper,if this,this,this is included and when Del is free and convenient to him. Parts shop man,probably thought your taking the mick,thought if your serious these are the hours mate.

[@chrisdavidson911]

45:50 find it hard to believe some overhanging loads regulations aren't being ignored.

[@prdoohan]

I hope all these random different bike service jobs Del has been doing aren't for dealers

[@mygreatbigfoot1679]

Is that the same bike you were trying to buy? Dell’s still got it.

[@pd6985]

I thought Delboy used to be a Manager at a Bike dealership?

[@fuzzy5610]

He’s seriously burning he missed out on a deal and he hates the world because of it lol and on top of it the bloke he’s talking about isn’t a dealer 😂

[@TheScooterHoon]

People should just ride their push bikes. Don't ruin a nice ride by taking a motorcycle!

[@waynehollard]

200miles from south London? I thought Del was from Dorset not Cornwall

[@darrenelbrow5144]

It’s about 120 miles to London from Blandford

[@HairyMTB]

Dude, if you can not make it to get a bike far away from you in reasonable working hours .... pay a damned transport company to collect and bring the bike back to you.

[@3kdn]

He needs some serious therapy and counseling. Totally living in his own world, reality check required urgently. Such a hypocrite!

[@SquidgyPickle]

When you get to the trail on your bike, and then get on your other bike, do you have to wear your leathers and crash helmet? Or do you need a trailer on the back of the pushbike to carry your Lycra so you can get changed?? 😂😂

[@gingernutpreacher]

Would you buy the Busa ? If you had chance

[@gafrers]

Del is so self-centered, it's amazing. Perfect Tuber it's all "me, me, me and me". I love how Cheap Del is. 1:01:37 The gold bolts he called cheap, ugly and soon to be replaced are still there. 3 years after he said that. 1:10:10 She Thanks to the patreon after he just said "i can be bothered to spend £50 on professional sand blasting and powder coating so these 2 cans for £12 will do" Oxymoron Galore Matt You are always Spot on. 👍👍

[@duncanbiscuit1226]

Didn't Del claim to have run a dealership?

[@motorcyclegarage2307]

60 miles away

[@DavesInHisGarage]

Those one man band shops with loads of old parts are the best even if the guys a nob they generally are like that it's for a reason, because dealing with people like del lol

[@ronr6605]

Cute, so upset by a guy he usually means is one of the servants supplying big del... and he makes it about the greedy lazy dealers vs us, the bikers... lol, that one ruffled his feathers properly. 😂

[@roadsterblue9031]

But didn't Del once work for a dealership?

[@SPROCK3TMONST3R]

Don't get me wrong, I hate dealers as well. But a guy with one bike that he himself used to own and is selling, is not classified in my book as a dealer. At that rate, i'm a dealer! I trade up one or two bikes a year or so. Guess i'm one of the "players". If you read between the lines and listen to the tone of his argument, you can tell He is a narcissist! He seriously thinks that someone should rearrange their life because of the importance of his. WTF Del!

[@sidwainhouse]

Didn’t he work for a dealership? Sounds like sour grapes.

[@nuppy.9117]

i'm only 6 mins in .... so its not a dealer its Fred in the shed.... (continuing to watch)...6:27 you said it!!!......(still watching).....ok om at 12:25 now and the seller is clearly not a dealer.....so....ok im now at 14:39 and i have realized that that del doesn't know the difference between a dealer and a trader(because all the dealers are open on a Sunday)!! "oooohhhhh lick balls on your day off I might want to come and knock your price down"!!! I wouldn't sell him the smell off my shit!.....

[@virtuosomuso]

Would the fact that he drilled a hole in those renthals ,void his insurance ,in the event of an accident

[@cliveadams7629]

I hope we get to find out.

[@kieranokeeffe1363]

Hash tag be nice delbollox imagine that 😅

[@kieranokeeffe1363]

Maybe the man had seen your videos dell and thought you are going to butcher this bike or fuck him about!

[@alanrichardson1672]

simon eyes

[@mattman3495]

It's like "triple tree"

[@charlesscottkelly]

Man u sure hate that guy...

[@coolvideos8864]

Entitled Much?

[@WyreForestBiker]

I'm confused as Del always claimed he used to run a dealership himself He is describing Capitalism in action .. there is an alternative, problem is we would all be riding around on 20 years old MZ's and Ural's

[@inevespace]

Fun fact. 50 years old design Urals and etc at capitalism now cost more than japanese bikes and still shit

[@alexclarke4739]

Like goths... It's funny because it's true :D