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[Lipo423]

Do you know if Zero is experiencing any delivery delays on these models?

I have ordered one since quite a few weeks -In Spain- and still today the local dealer is not able to give me an specific date...which is not nice as I was told to be the first customer in Spain ordering one 

[protomech]

I got mine approximately a week after placing the order (received 3/14), and most of that time was trucking it across the US. Getting it to Spain might take a little longer.

Can your dealer verify that the bike has been shipped?

[Richard230]

I think that is the key. You need to find out if your bike has shipped. A few years ago I bought a BMW that I special-ordered and my dealer was able to follow it from the factory to the U.S. warehouse and then to their dealership. It took months to get across Germany, loaded on a container ship, then to U.S. Customs and finally to the BMWNA warehouse - where it sat for another two months, until they had enough bikes to ship out to every dealer. My bike was manufactured in June of 2008 and it finally arrived at my dealer in September of that year. So I have learned not to hold my breath when stuff is shipped around the world.

All I am saying is that even when it does ship, it may take a long time to arrive, as shipping a motor vehicle from the west coast of the U.S. and then to Spain no doubt involves a lot of waiting, inspection and paperwork.

However, if the bike has not shipped yet, it might be because Zero is hedging their bets a bit by supplying the demand in the U.S. market first in case a design or manufacturing issue shows up that they can more easily resolve when the problem is closer to the factory - such as what happened with the stalling problem that occurred to some of the new bikes and required a modified program to fix.

Let us know what you find out.  It would be great if you get the first 2012 Zero in Spain - or maybe even Europe.   

[Lipo423]

Thanks for the info gents. I will let you know how the process goes.

[picasso]

I just thought I would add that I was at Zero on Thursday and was a little shocked how big things have grown. From what I saw Zero is shipping out bikes every day. The amount of parts Zero has in stock is also a little shocking. Shipping containers full of tires and wheels fill the rear parking lot.

[Richard230]

It kind of makes you wonder what the world did before shipping containers.   

It is great to hear that Zero is going "full steam ahead"!   

Thanks for the report, Picasso.

[manlytom]

Great to hear that ! we need some momentum to get the numbers right to see this grow.

Seems however that Australia is currently not able to get the 2012 bikes at all ... 

[Lipo423]

They are landing second week of April in Europe...

[kingcharles]

And they will probably arrive in The Netherlands first as the EU headquarters is based there. Then probably by road to Spain.

[blake]

I live in Canada and mine just arrived (it was delayed several weeks) but I've not paid or taken delivery because I cannot find insurance (only 1 company will insure it, but for $3,500 a year!!). This is with 20+years of spotless riding record (23 bikes). Go figure!  Unless I can find a better rate I'm going to have to buy a Ducati Hypermotard 796 or WRX250 instead... Sad because I was pumped to get this bike after I took a 2011 S model for a spin and loved it. I guess it's just so new that Canadian insurance companies don't know what to do with it, and so they do what they usually do with the unknown - treat it as a huge risk.    Anyone else having trouble getting insurance?

[Richard230]

Maybe you can get your dealer to do the heavy lifting for you. Tell him that you can't buy the bike unless you can get reasonably priced insurance and let him find you a company that wants to insure the bike. After all, if no one can get insurance in Canada, Zero isn't going to be selling any motorcycles. It would be in their interest to solve this problem for you. 

[rewster]

ManlyTom, any idea when the 2012 model will be available in australia?  Last i heard, I spoke to Phil from Zero in Jan and he said late March/April, but Ive just now noticed that they've removed the Melbourne dealership from the locations on the zero website. Not that that really matters because i'm in Perth, but i regularly travel to Melbourne.
A rep from the US said they could ship one out to me for a fee, but i thought i'd wait until there were some local options.  If i import i'm also faced with the problem that i have no idea what hoops to jump through to get it registered.

[manlytom]

Hi all from Australia !

at this stage there are no plans to bring in 2012 models. Please contact me if you are from OZ and interested in 2012 model bikes. If we get enough together it might help to state our case.

cheers
Tom