I love this shop! They sold me my very first motorcycle at an affordable price! Not only are their repairs thorough but they are QUICK! All the mechanics are friendly and clearly knowledgeable. Robert and his wife are very sweet, I'm a daily rider and they always take care of me and my bike! Seriously very lucky to learn to ride in BR and also have them as an option, they are total godsends. If you ride or want to ride, please check them out!
Goldwing trike handle bars would not lock and park brake would not hold. Staff solved my problem when a honda dealerships seem to have no idea. They were willing to take my bike in and not tell me it would take over a week before they would even have a chance to look at it. My bike was ready the next day. Fair price
Only come here if your knowledgeable on motorcycles. They will lie and sell you something saying everything is in working condition and it's not. Needed a new fuel pump and battery for the one they sold me. He only honored the warranty on 3 trips. They still never fixed the overheating issue all this in the first few weeks of the purchase. I have to go to the manufacturee company to get it fixed. Only come if your knowledgeable on motorcycles brand new riders BEWARE.
Great guys, super helpful. They communicate super well and are just so easy to work with. Brought my XR250 in for new tires, a new chain and sprockets, and to fix a rounded oil drain bolt. They had it done in 3 days. They even gave me the stickers for my new chain. Super great service, I’ll definitely be going back to these guys for any work I need done in the future
Brought in a rzr with no reverse. Was told they will diagnose the cause of it having no reverse & provide info with what exactly was wrong with reverse to know which parts were require to fix it. Kept it for 3 weeks, only to tell me it needed a transmission verses telling me what was broken causing the reverse to not work. Charged me a diagnostic fee to tell me it just needed a transmission verses telling me what was actually wrong with it (when I dropped it off. I told them. I wanted to know what was wrong with reverse. What was actually broken causing the reverse to not work). Not a " man" of their word. Poor customer service. Won't be back.
Can't advocate enough for this shop.
Fast, kind and professional crew. I'll come here for anything bike related in the future even if I have to drive a few hours.
Team was capable of things other shops turned away from and done at half the price in a quarter of the time.
This is a great Mom and Pop motorcycle shop and sales of used motorcycles. Always quick and friendly service and answers to all of my motorcycle questions.
Great knowledge & pricing of motorcycles sale service parts & accessories. Rad's has been a established fixture of the old south Baton Rouge & LSU community for since a 1978 and continue to provide skilled quality workmanship on all makes & models of chrome or not horses of nuts & bolts...
Well.....this place said it would cost $300.00 to put a new valve stem on my Harley Davidsons back tire. Needless to say, I brought my bike to a tire place in Port Allen and they put the air valve stem on for $30.00. I gave him $40.00 and thanked him for his honesty.
Called to see about having tires mounted and balanced. I wanted particular ones for my bike. I travel for work, and bought them during my last job but had to leave for the next place and wasn’t able to have them mounted. This place quoted me just under $500, then when questioned said if I had bought tires from them it would have been $250.
Ridiculous.
TAKE PICTURES!! Before getting work done here. They will charge you for things they do not do. Paid 600$ for a new tank and 200$ in labor. They kept my old tank on my bike and took the dent out. When I asked them about it they lied and made me pay the balance if I wanted my bike back. BE CAREFUL bringing your bike here for work.
Owner Robert has been in same location since for sure since 1986 when I bought my first motorcycle. I have bought 5 previous bikes from him. He has always been truthful with me as to what was wrong with each bike and what was needed. I did not buy a bike today and we were only 200 dollars difference.. but I didn't have the $200 and he said he could not budge. I was disappointed as I came all the way in from Lafayette today to buy. He tried to help me as much as he could but sometimes the deal just cannot happen. My experience is subjective but I believe truthful of this shop.. and Robert has knowledge if you are a newbie just getting into riding.
I would not go back to this place if it was the last place on earth that sales motorcycles. My husband and I went there on 12/15/2022 and traded a 2004 HD dyna wide glide for a 2006 HD Sportster 1200 custom. The guy who made the deal said the bike was in great shape and would definitely make it back to our house 100 miles away. Well the bike didn't even make it out of town. We had to leave the bike at a strangers house for the night and come back with a trailer to bring it back to the dealership so we could get our 04 HD dyna wide glide back. He gave us so much trouble but we did get our bike back. I will never go back and I will not recommend this place.
They’re all real nice people. Got my atv running quickly at a reasonable price. Mark was very helpful & gives great customer service. Wide selection of parts & services
STAY AWAY!!! Repeat….GO ANYWHERE BUT HERE!!! Total crooked owner! I personally dealt with the owner FYI. Went to Rad cycles to get my bike serviced. It wasn’t running strong and I personally didn’t want to look into fixing it myself.
Rad charged me $800 to basically do absolutely nothing to the bike.
Let me explain…I brought in a new throttle body assembly and sensors ($1200) because that what they said it needed. After I brought them in, They said they used them but that they were bad and with the two sets could only make one functional set. So I took their word. Then they explained how for some reason they didn’t know, while my bike was hooked up to their fuel pump it ran fine, just not on mine, but that it was good and safe to drive. I didnt understand at the time. I paid and started to drive the bike home. Less than 2 miles away it starting sputtering and killed while I was in traffic on interstate!
Got home and pulled off the fuel pump myself…it was clogged with clay. I ordered a new screen for filter $10.00 on Amazon free shipping 2 days later my bike was back to new.
I’ve gone to Rad Cycles a few times in the last few years. This most recent time I visited their store, I bought a nice battery for my dirt bike(cost over 100$). Well less than 5 months later, this battery won’t hold a charge. Really disappointing since it was such an expensive battery. I remember the last time i visited this place was when I was trying to figure out why my dirt bike engine was locked. I brought it to them asking if they could check it out. The next day I get a call confirming that the engine was locked and had to pay the 150$ service fee for them to do absolutely nothing. I want to clarify that going into this appointment, they were made aware that the engine was locked. They then told me if I wanted to figure out what was wrong with my bike, i could pay them 500 to start taking it apart, or it would cost them Over 5,000$ to rebuild my engine(that I had literally just bought). Then I brought it to a buddy of mine’s dad who is a mechanic. He fixed the timing belt and a few other things that were wrong with the bike which is why the engine was locked. He figured out, without the amount of tools and resources rad cycles has, what the problem was and fixed it while rad, probably didn’t even take a look at the bike then charged me to bring it to them. Will never be back there. They only they want is your money. ANY other motorcycle shop in Louisiana would be better.
They messed up my tire's inner tube and wanted me to pay them to fix it. I had a flat after running over a nail and limped my bike to their shop as it was the closest to my house. They charged me over 160 to change my inner tube.
I was able to ride around for about 30 miles and my tire started leaking again. I called them and they said they would charge me another 160 to change out the tube. So u took my tire off and went to Cyclegear. They took my tire in back and almost immediately they came back with a fixed tire. They said whoever last installed the tube put it in with a twist and that was where the tube was leaking. They fixed it for 60 bucks.
I'll never go the Rad Cycles again. They are incompetent, slow, and price gougers. Avoid them like the plague.
was charged 175 dollars and they did nothing to my bike. in fact my bike is worse than when i sent it there. they will lie about what they do or have done. they are not a good bike shop. i would go somewhere else. Like he said he diagnosed my bike for 175 dollars it only cost 125 to diagnose and 25 to adjust the chain. But my issue is really the trust issue. If I can’t trust you to tell me the truth about a bolt that holds my seats together how am I suppose to trust you to work on my bike. Again go here if you want to be lied to and have your hard earned money taken from you
Went here today to get my 2018 hayabusa lifted and left feeling very satisfied. Not only did they lift my bike but they also extended the kickstand to go along with the new height. They also figure out an issue I was having with a popping noise that I thought was coming from the bottom of the bike. This shop is 9 miles away from me and still this is the place I would like to continue to go to when it comes to all my motorcycle repairs and service. Excellent staff and knowledgeable and if they don’t have a part best believe they will look for it and order it for you and give you recommendations.
This place is a rip off I highly recommended to go somewhere else. I brought my 2012 Honda rancher trx420 EFI in to have it repaired because it was not starting. I was told that it was $125 to diagnosis and it goes toward the cost of repair if its repaired at RAD. After diagnosis I was told that the total to repair it would be $700 to replace the fuel pump and to replace the ignition. I said that was fine to go ahead and repair it. At this time I did not know how much the parts cost. The cost of the fuel pump was $139. The cost of the ignition was $39. the total cost for labor was $450 @ $125 and hour. The cost of the labor for the fuel pump was $275 that equals to 2.2 hours of labor. The ignition cost was $175 for labor hours that equal 1.4 hours. I was told after talking to the owner that they took three hours to find out what was wrong so I was charged the more than the $125 diagnostic fee to find out why it wouldn't start. If you are familiar with these bike it does not take 2 hours to take the fuel pump assembly off. it only takes about 15min at most. there are 3 hoses with clamps and one that clips on to the pump, one bolt on a bracket and a rubber bumper that holds it on. I done this myself to change my fuel filters. Im sure that an experienced atv mechanic know if its not starting the first things you look at are fuel and FIre. So why it took so long to diagnose is beyond me. As for the ignition switch it just pops out and unplugs so thers no way that took an hour and a half of labor. So why was I charged $450 FOR LABOR I DONT KNOW. BUT I TEL YOU NEVER GO BACK THERE AGAIN.
It was terrible they charged me almost $950 to replace a starter and the starter was $275. It took 3 days for them to diagnose the problem after we were told it would take one day. It took 2 weeks to get it replaced bc they got aggravated with it so they stopped working on it and didn't tell me anything until I called and asked about it and tried to lie about what I said to them and they said they would have it done in a couple of days bc it was my only vehicle at the time. In the end I told them to jump start the solenoid and let me know if that was all that was wrong with it and if it was just the solenoid to go ahead and replace it. They called me that afternoon telling me it jumped off and had it back together. After this they argued with me about them replacing the solenoid and I ended up replacing it myself which took me 15 minutes. This bike was estimated to be $275 for starter and $275 for labor (which takes an hour if you go a slow as possible) and $25 for the starter cable to be replaced (which wasn't replaced but had a new lead put on it for $5, something that cost pennies) As time went by we called on the bike and we were told it would cost $700 for pick up ($100 more than before) then we called back again. Now they said $899 for pick up. Then the talk about the solenoid happened and we were told $998 if they put it in. Then he said with a cash discount and me putting it in it came out to $943. Every time I mentioned this place to person of the motorcycle community they said they could have told me not to go there and I now see why.
Just brought it in for oil change and checkup, knowledgeable from what I saw and good price. I was sketchy upon review but I didn't require too much work. I suggest being very observant and questionable to avoid a bad experience.
I bought two motorcycles from these guys when I was going LSU, and I had a pretty good experience both times. I was a poor college student, and these guys provided me with inexpensive transportation not only once but two times. I got all my gear here as well, and it still is good even after almost ten years.
Fast and Flawless, I wound up getting a flat tire and needed a new tube. I showed up right before they opened and about 40min later the motorcycle was done. I would normally change this stuff myself but having no tools in Baton Rouge (live here for school) I was forced to bring it to a shop. Needless to say the process couldn't have gone much smoother than it did.
My experience was great. Owner is honest and easy to talk to. Labor is a bit high, but it's because they pay their mechanics salary instead of commission so they don't screw you over. Definitely bring your business here.
I took my bike in the have the clutch replaced. The price came out to 945 dollars for parts labor and a oil change. After my bike was done I went to pick it up only to find out that they dropped my bike and cracked my upper head light bracket. I brought it to the owners attention. His excuse was that I must have done it before they got my bike. Then said he'll order da part for me which I would have to pay for parts and labor again. They are a complete rip off and over charge. They not bring your bike here for they will rip you off
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