Black may be the hard color to find at this time but the dealers I am around where I live their bikes are collecting dust rather than going out the door (though most are Red). Only people I see buying are folks who have real money...people looking for a credit buy have pretty much disappeared on such expensive bikes.
My personal two time experineces with DNA:
The first time was good and friendly, though no way to talk to anyone with rank. They stay very hidden. I felt all warm and fuzzy from their help.
Second dealing was a sharp worded spitting contest with the last resort threat having to come in the form of bringing in the old lawyer routine (which I depise right along with pill pushing doctors and land developers). All this because they printed out two different version letters stating what was to be done on the recall for the regulators that were dropping like flies.
One letter to the customer stated a list of items "WOULD" be changed. The letter to the dealers was a lil different version. It more or less sayed, Check first and if regulator ok only add the heat shield componets. After a couple of harsh exchange of words with DNA over in fct was someones inablilty to proof read the two letters so they both said the same thing, I was not a happy camper on being told that totally new parts was possibly not what I was going to get, after my letter sayed I was to get new parts....period.
Even tthe time if my old regulator was good....after only having 600 miles on the bike and afraid to drive it no further than I thought I could push it home after seeing and reading of the amount of failures I was in no mood to hear it may not be replaced! There is no way I would ever have trusted the bike with the old regulator on it, no matter how good it checked out! After all the fustration, my wasted time and exchange of heated words over their poor proofing mistake , they did back up and tell me everything would be changed. I am thinking the whole time, "Why did we have to do the old circle jerk to just get to where we should have been at all along"?
The sad part is I lost any trust in what they were telling me over the phone. At the dealer they sent me to (my original dealer went belly up the week after my wife bought the bike for me) though they were very nice I still was cussing down deep that they would just not exchange the parts with me and let me put them on (this was as simple of a job as it gets).
I had taken the fairing off myself before I got there and I had marked the original regulator where the Sun did not shine to make sure I did in fact get a new one. I had also practised my fighting stance and words ready for the worst senerio. A situation I should not of had to fear or train for with a bike costing $20,000 plus. ...I got in shape though for a few days!