I bought a bike from a dealer in White Plains, NY and he had and employee ride it to the Boston area and take the train back. Bought a car and it was driven from a dealership in Boston from one in Vermont. both times they were the color combo I wanted and they were the closest.

53 miles? That's new and if I was the dealer I wouldn't give anything off based on 53 miles.

 

Their insurance company policy mandates supervised test rides on new bikes at less than 60 mph. They showed it to me when I asked if we could take a touring bike on the interstate and get it up to 70 or so. Would be nice if they didn't do this, but oh well. It's probably the biggest complaint I could come up with Lone Wolf HD.

 

I took a 1997 C5 Corvette for a solo test ride. The salesman gave me a stink eye when I came back and the smell of rubber and clutch filled the parking lot.

 

The last bike I bought had zero miles on it when I bought it. The most critical time for this particular bike was the first twenty miles. I wouldn't have wanted demo rides during the break-in period. I wanted to know that I was the only one who rode it. Granted, this was not my Harley, this was a naked bike, and they don't let people demo those kinds of bikes.

I still wouldn't want someone test riding a bike that I was getting new from Harley. You can't assume that everyone knows how to ride and if they are test riding something, they might be beating the **** out of it since it's not their bike, like a rental car.

I went through the same thing with the Camaro I just got. It was "new" but it had 88 miles when I got it. They had to drive 50 miles to get it, so it had like 38 miles on it, but who knows how that car was driven during such a critical time, especially since it's a manual and you just have to hope the people putting on those miles knew how to drive it. I saw 2013 "new" cars that had 167 miles and 180 miles. These were also manuals and they didn't sound right at all (Scion FRS, a car someone would drive like an idiot when test driving a new one).

If you are putting down serious money for a new Harley, I would find one to test drive, and then get one with as close to no miles as possible since you are likely paying 15k+ to get the bike. If there are issues with the bike, they would take care of it.

 

I happened to have my cell phone out when they were putting the first 88 miles on your new Camaro. Here's the video: