In for the MOT and service on the 1st. That took almost 2 weeks, and cost £200. On the way home, I stopped to pop into a shop. Back to bike after 15 mins - battery flat as a pancake. Got another shop to pick it up. Alternator and battery gone - another £200. A week or more later it is ready and I get it back. Now then, On the original service I told the bloke that I am a mechanical dunce and its my first bike. He was to thoroughly check, adjust etc for me. As he handed it back he said "The battery goes a bit flat, doesn't it. Bloody alarms - sheesh!" Should he have done something about it during the week or more that he had it? I reckon so. Second, so bike shops aren't like car dealers then, when work is generally done that same day, or after a couple of days at the most. Do you normally have to be without your bike for a week or more? Its a 2005 Bonneville, 11000 miles - dead alternator ..... acceptable? Feeling done over by the industry.