Meet the Team

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Meet the Team

Oxford Harley-Davidson®

Richard Collins
Richard is the Head of the Motorcycle Division at Blade Motorcycles. Richard has been involved in the business for over 20 years. Although he doesn’t currently ride, his dream bike would be a KTM 1290 Super Duke R. He’s very into his sports outside of work, willing to give most things a go whether that be table tennis with his kids to a solo endurance event! A fun fact about Richard is that he also plays the piano, with Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven being one of his favourites.
Luke Evans
Jonny is the Brand Manager for Oxford Harley-Davidson. Jonny has been part of the Harley-Davidson set up for over 10 years, starting in parts and progressing through sales, senior sales, sales manager, and now Head of Brand. Jonny is currently on the look out for his next bike but his dream would be the 2018 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide in Gunship Grey. Jonny has recently got into following the King of the Baggers Racing in the states – who said Harley’s don’t go round corners. An interesting fact about Jonny is that he once rode a Harley-Davidson Road Glide Limited through a Safari in Spain – Fortunately they skipped the Lion Enclosure.
Mark joined us recently as one of our sales executives here at Abingdon. Mark previously worked with Kawasaki and Mercedes for approx. 3 years before joining us. He currently owns a Ducati Panigale V4S Superleggera and his favourite motorcycle racer/ team is Kawasaki WSB Rea and Lowes.
Jack is our Trainee Sales Executive here at Oxford Harley-Davidson. He currently rides a Yamaha R7, but his dream bike would be a Ducati V4R. In his spare time, Jack enjoys Airsoft and Clay Pigeon Shooting.
Kim Barrow
Kim has worked with us at Abingdon as a Aftersales Advisor since September 2020, and certainly knows her stuff after working in the motor trade since the age of 15! Although she doesn’t ride herself, she does go pillion. Kim’s favourite motorcycle racer is Valentino Rossi!
Luke Evans
Jacob is one of our Apprentice Motorcycle Technicians at our Oxford/ Abingdon sites. Jacob currently rides an Aprilia RS4 125 2016, however his dream bike is a Hypermotard 950 SP 2022. Jacob’s main hobby is VW Classic Cars and he actually owns an MK2 Polo C 88’.

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We are a credit broker and not a lender. We can introduce you to a carefully selected panel of lenders, which includes manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent. We act on behalf of the lender for this introduction and not as your agent. We are not impartial, and we are not an independent financial advisor.

Our approach is to introduce you first to the manufacturer lender linked directly to the particular franchise you are purchasing your vehicle from, who are usually able to offer the best available package for you, taking into account both interest rates and other contributions. If they are unable to make you an offer of finance, we then seek to introduce you to whichever of the other lenders on our panel is able to make the next most suitable offer of finance for you. Our aim is to secure a suitable finance agreement for you that enables you to achieve your financial objectives. If you purchase a vehicle, in the majority of cases, we will receive a commission from your lender for introducing you to them which is either a fixed fee, or a fixed percentage of the amount that you borrow. This may be linked to the vehicle model you purchase.

Different lenders pay different commissions for such introductions, and manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent may also provide preferential rates to us for the funding of our vehicle stock and also provide financial support for our training and marketing. But any such amounts they and other lenders pay us will not affect the amounts you pay under your finance agreement; however, you will be contributing towards the commission paid to us with the interest collected on your repayments. Before we propose you to a potential lender, we will inform you of the likely amount of commission we will receive and seek your consent to receive this commission. The exact amount of commission that we will receive will be confirmed prior to you signing your finance agreement.

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