Tony thanks for your unconditional assistance with this. I seriously appreciate it.

David.

As far as investing goes…it would appear YOU don’t know much about the topic…after all, you are the one who lost your AIH investment! And I never suggested AIH was a pubicly held company. That does not stop someone from holding AIH shares, now does it?

So typical of your type. Always someone else to blame. AS AN INVESTOR, YOU WERE INVITED TO THE COMPANY STATE-OF-THE-UNION ADDRESSES. Did you voice your concerns, attempting to direct AIH goals and policies?

I don’t think ANYONE will find a single line of my type that supports your accusation that I back ANY AIH CEO. Just more of your TOUGH GUY talk, and you spend WAY too much time fantacizing about people on their knees and others’ crotches! Maybe YOU need to put a bullet in YOUR brain. A .22 should do.

Speaking of not giving a fuck, BLOW ME, l’il-Tommy-talks-too-much!

Since I have had my bike for a number of years now, and have had to do some work on it, those of you I can help, I will.

Tony The Big Cheese seems to know what he is talking about (one of few). Call him for advice.

Tom Barret you should seek some PROFESSIONAL HELP. You REALLY believe someone should harm themselves due to a failed business? I mean I do understand it has hurt many. I HAVE ONE OF THEIR BIKES MYSELF. BUT GET REAL. You don’t see the CEO of CHRYSLER, FORD, OR GM putting a bullet in their own heads. And they have lost money by a factor of 100x. And as we speak, what about Donny Bitman and Illusion, either incarnatation of Titan, California Motorcycle Company, before they became Indian, any of the 5 or so revivals of Indian, American Quantum, Desparado, Hell Bound Steel, and the litany of others I am just unaware of? Their CEO’s dead? Jeez…who do YOU work for?

Dave

From what I understand, AIH is being sued for some of these issues as we speak by other customers, however, if AIH is bankrupt, the plaintiff may not get any money and will have to pay all his own legal fees which could be thousands of dollars. It will be cheeper in the long run to simply pay for the repairs and be done with it.

However, since this issue may be in litigation at present, S&S may decide to do nothing on the warranty, since this is an AH bike, until the courts makes a judgement in these cases which could be two or more years down the road.

Several months down the road, I started experiencing problems. The problems were minor – a loose screw here, loose grounds there, etc. I brought it into V-Twins for any maintenance and repairs that my bike needed (mostly things covered under my warranty). A lot of the work done was mostly covered under warranty. I’ve also ordered thousands of dollars worth of after market parts like levers, forward controls, etc. and V-Twins would do the ordering and installation of all those parts.

8 months ago, the speedometer went out and V-Twins replaced it under warranty. 3 months down the road, the speedometer went out again and they replaced it. When I got the bike the second time around, I noticed that the calibration was completely off and the bike was running really bad. V-Twins ordered the speedometer (which is covered by warranty) as the one that was just installed was faulty and then informed me that my head gasket was blown. They fixed the head gasket (hmmm the bike only had 2200 miles) and they orderd the third odometer from Gary who worked in the warranty department at AIH in TX. My service guy at V-Twins was told that it was back-ordered by 8 weeks.

I got my bike back after the head gasket was replaced and my bike was still riding really crappy. In the middle of a ride, my bike would just stop. I’d restart and I’d be able to ride it for a few miles and then it’d stop again.

I called V-Twins and told them something was wrong and to my amazement and shock, I was told by the owner that they can no longer work on my bike as American Ironhorse owes them $4,000 in warranty work from mine and other AIH bikes.

OUTRAGE is an understatement to how I felt. Here my bike is, sitting in my garage not running right and one of the dealer that I bought my bike from
refused to work on it without payment.

I immediately had my assistant contact AIH in TX and had her notify them of the issue. She had been trying to get a hold of someone since the end of January until finally, she was able to get a hold of Vickey from AIH in TX with their first correspondence taking place on February 18. My assistant asked if they were going out of business and Vickey said that they downsized, but no, they weren’t going out of business.

Vickey also assured her that everything regarding the money that was owed to V-Twins would get taken care of and she would pass on the information to her accounting department, sales manager, and whoever else it needed to get to in order for this to get resolved. It’s been a week and a half, and guess what, still nothing!

I had no choice but to bring my bike back to the dealer that has been working on it and pull money out of my pocket to get it fixed. With a little luck I will get my bike back today. This is becoming an unending nightmare!

In regards to my third speedometer, 8 weeks passes, we check up on it and nothing, another 8 weeks passes and nothing again. This keeps on occurring and now we’re 6 months down the road and guess what, STILL NOTHING!

Is anyone else experiencing the frustration I am?

1) YOU supplied the Nasty Boys’ compliance manual to Titan.
2) YOU supplied the Titan manual to AIH.
3) You are the one who told Proudfoot he could change the VIN’s on Titans.
4) YOU are the one who told Wil Garland the older AIH bikes could have the VIN numbers re-assigned as new in Canada.
5) YOU are the one who told the engineering department you had an “in” with Transport Canada.
6) YOU are also the dick stain that got paid $80,000 by AIH over the course of 1 year, while trying to circumnavigate Transport Canada’s rules to FUCK YOUR OWN COUNTRYMEN. Want to “prove” differently? POST YOUR BANK STATEMENT. The “wop” is actually a stand-up guy, working with the “gods” in the AIH engineering department, who takes pride in doing things THE RIGHT WAY.

Living in your country at the time of the meeting Transport Canada head a Q and A session in Quebec, I witnessed 2 things of noteworthyness.

YOU WERE NOT THERE. CANADIAN DEALERS HELD YOU IN LOW REGARD.

I also heard tell YOU were sending inappropriate e-mails to some of the females half YOUR age in the marketing department at AIH. Should I contact them and ask they to forward one to this blog?

SUCKS TO BE CALLED OUT BY NAME DOESN’T IT, PETER?

It’s also going to suck when you come across some of these people you have slandered, not to mention your own countrymen who can fit the pieces together with regards to what you did to them!

in closing i’m much younger and have seen how these companies stretch the truth not follow our Canadian guidelines and really don’t care how the dealer does.

so that is the truth and i can back it up