we used to have multi brand bikes at the shop all the time - they gotta trade in sometime ;')
Treat the rider with respect, and you will find the conversion rate much higher.
and yes, life would be much easier if I could just walk across the border, not speak the language, apply for benefits (housing, public aid, medical, disability, unemployment, cell phone etc) and make everyone cater to me for fear of a discrimination suit. - the rest of the world don't work like that.
bwahahahahaha whatever dude you hyped up your move for so long, posting pictures of these girls you had over there, how your apartment was being made for you etc etc and then....NOTHING
Hey Mr Owens, you can't just walk in like he says, these things take a lot of time & paperwork.
If you'd been to Russia or Ukraine you'd know what the situation there is like & you'd know what the women are like too.
I was there on the Madonna tour last year, we had highly paid "fixers" to expedite the border crossing with the trucks, still took 17 hrs though, & that was after by-passing a 4 mile queue of stationary trucks with a police escort.
Some borders can take take literally days to get through for the locals.
Took me 3 hrs to get through the airport to leave Moscow I nearly missed my flight, the wheels grind slow.
So unless you have first-hand knowledge of life over there, give it a rest.
I'm not particularly a friend of Brian's, no more than I am of yours, so I'm not taking sides just pointing out that things are never as simple as you may think or wish them to be, so cut the guy some slack.
One or two folks do seem to have developed a rather, less than health obsession with this move that hasn't happened yet. Stuff happens. Sometimes plans have to change. Let it go.