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Congratulations and good luck, I would love to work in the motorcycle industry.

This is not a personal dig by any means (after your self admision that you know very little about bikes) however, I have never understood why shops like HG employ people with very little product knowledge or understanding of bike.

I appreciate it can be learnt etc by the right person pretty quickly.

The last time I went into HG in nottingham there was two gormless people in there who did not say a word to me, just kept reading (non bike related) magazines. Infact you could have sworn they had absolutely no interest in bikes (or working) whatsoever.

I then asked if they had any other XR1100s in different colours, however apparently they only come in plain colours at the moment (they only had silver and black). I then asked about the basic difference over the XR1000. Neither of them had the slightest clue.

HG seem to be the worst for doing this!