Last day of Saltire Motorcycle dealership in Edinburgh (Administration)

Shame as it looks like a great store to hang around in.

Your Observations Coments are 100% . Most motorcycle dealerships are in a similar situation if they are honest , they are kidding themselves , to keep the ilusion going. There is NO MARKET for the gross over-supply of TOO EXPENSIVE TWO WHEELERS. Look at the second hand stock NOT MOVING TOO EXPENSIVE for the market. Younger people do not want motorcycles , and us old ones are a dying out.

Very sad day

Sad but the industry is dying, look around any motorcycle show or bike meet, it's mostly older guys and give it another 10 or 20 years and half of them will either have died or just packed it in.
Roads are too dangerous now anyway with phones and stupid screens that every half wit is staring at.
Thank God I was born and grew up when I did, I pity young people now and the fcked up society they are growing up in.

The appreciation of the FTRs was EXACTLY what I would be thinking.

Went there a few times from inverness good cafe and showroom.nothink left up here in scotland its turning to a ghost town for bikes

The whole car bike caravan campervans are going to implode they are luxury items that labour government don't want you to have net zero is the only thing they are interested in pushing on to us😢

Very sad to see Saltire go. I got back into biking 6 years ago after a 30 year break and did a ‘back-to-biking’ course with a wonderful instructor called John. I then bought a used Honda from them and all was well. However, more recently I tried to test a Royal Enfield and the insurance excess was so crippling I declined the test (it was over 50% of the value of the bike). I decided to e-mail Calum, the owner, and he let me know that they were working on a better system. So, a year or so later, I eventually took the test ride. But if I’m totally honest, the sales guy I dealt with couldn’t have cared less about securing my business. I bought a used Enfield from another dealer instead but it was due its first MoT this year so I booked it into Saltire months in advance and requested a loaner bike as I needed to get to work. When I showed up on the morning of the service, no loaner bike. Eventually the sales team agreed I could borrow one of their bikes. I got a call to say my bike was ready, went to pick it up and asked how the MoT went: a long silence followed. They had ‘forgotten’ to do it! I wasn’t impressed. So, for me personally, I saw a slow decline in the attitudes from some of the staff that worked there over the last 6 years. I feel for the hard working men and women who have lost their jobs and wish them all well.

Sad to see but unfortunately massive dealer outlets are vulnerable to reducing demand for large stocks of 2nd hand bikes. The only business model I can see working is for dealers to allow customers to sell their bikes in their showrooms and take a percentage of the sale as a fee or a fixed fee. That way they don’t own the bike and don’t have cash tied up in it while it sits waiting for a buyer. This is not good for motorcycling.

Motorcycle licence is to difficult to obtain. Even CBT start to became a mockery. They should send the bill to DVLA. In UK you can spend 1 hour and not see a motorbike on the road.

Very well and tastefully put together video.
I've been around long enough now to see dealerships come and go but l reckon now due to the industry having changed so much recently more will fall and never to be replaced. It's a sinking ship with less and less bikers around year on year. #caledonianbiker

Mate a lot of the stock bar Indian bikes was for sale from the admins. The list prices for the KTMs was £800 a pop. I think I saw the 790s going for £1300 final day with 45% added in fees. 25 vat and 15% buye premium plus 5% online fee. All those back rooms and helmets etc the workshop all up for peanuts last Monday .

This is what happens when the core biker audience is in their 50's. The average uk rider is 54. We need more younger people to take over.
The younger crowd dont really like cruisers its not their style.

It'll be a bad thing for the community as motorcycle's are great for mental health,,truth now is stuff is to expensive and most people are not buying £10+ thousand pounds on a bike to ride a couple of days a week,,my two are 06 GSXR 1000 and an SV 1000 ,be doing me fine,,☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ from northern Ireland

Rents and rates for units is too high to make any money these days !

The Fiat currency we all call money is not money at all. Fiat currencies always revert back to their intrinsic value of £0.00. By design inflation is a stealth tax that quite quickly strips the value of the fake money. Every single Fiat currency has gone through the same cycle. At the beginning it is gold backed (you can go to the bank and exchange your currency for gold (or silver), then after a number of years it becomes only partially backed then, exactly where we are now, not backed by anything. Gold and Silver then inflate to compensate for all the debt based Fiat currency printed since the last time it was gold / silver backed. Gold and silver has started its journey to inflate. Central banks have over the last few years been buying gold in record amounts. Now you know why. India has just started buying silver in record amounts: they know what’s coming. Hyper inflation of our fake currency is a real possibility, swapping it for real assets might be a good move right now.

long time biker here I think though there are reasonably priced bikes to buy and more are coming (chinese) they have become too complex and expensive to run/service/repair both buyers and manufacturers are to blame. of course here in the UK people are becoming less wealthy every day, so toys are becoming less and less accessible, the Chinese bikes will likely mitigate this a bit in the short term at least but the biking experience will change as it always has but less will be involved, untill electric becomes viable. 2 big dealers down my way just gone down and they are part of a bigger group, another big outfit appears to be downsizing, the whole UK industry needs to look at itself and quickly see the incoming threats,

Council rates are mad here. We are downsizing part of a unit to save money here. Wonder how Honda 2 wheels and triumph are getting on, still there from when a went to the primary school across from it. People are moving outta edinburgh as business rates and units are like half the rent

Passed my test here. Really sad to see any business go into administration, but now you see so many of these motorcycle businesses struggling now.

PRICE AND TOO MUCH TECHNOLOGY IS WHAT IS KILLING MOTORCYCLING.THE ONLY THING YOU NEED IS ABS AND THAT'S IT !!!

4:17 I wouldn’t let anyone drive in there !

The early signs are usually there. Ie not many customers/quiet business and staff not chasing sales.

Saltire would have had to purchase the Indian Motorcycles or at least owed them for whats on the shop floor. Each season you have to take a set amount of bikes and clothing no matter what you have left. This has been an issue since COVID as stocks were still being made. The story I heard was Indian forced bikes on them and they could not sustain it. I would imagine that may have happened with some of the other brands as well. In America the dealers do not own the shop floor bikes but here they do or at least they are invoiced them. I would imagine any of the bikes downstairs will end up at another Indian dealer possibly the new Riders shop in Bridgewater.

I bought my Bike here in July thanks to Levi who I would now class as a friend. I hope Saltire can come back in some way as there is definitely a market out there.

Wow I just saw this, omg, this is so sad. It was such a fun place to go and see so many bikes, such a shame. Got my wife’s 125 Mutt from there, lovely staff.