Am I right to be worried?

[YaelD]

Hello All,
Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong area, but this forum-malarky is all pretty new to me. However, I need help. I decided to buy an sv650 off eBay and found and fell in love with one ... and it's being delivered tomorrow. BUT, it was advertised as a 2003 model, I did the usual vehicle check and everything panned out, however I've checked a few independent vehicle checking services and the bike is coming up (repeatedly) as a K1. Correct me if I'm wrong but a K1 means the year of manufacture is 2001, does it not? The DirectGov service states the year of manufacture and date of registration as 2003 ???

I've done a google search to see whether i could tell a K1 from a K3 and I think I can (now! couldn't before) and the bike I'm buying does appear to be a curvy.

Can anyone think why a K1 would legitimately appear as a 2003 SV? Should I walk away?

[Bibio]

yes it could have been manufactured in 2001 but not registered till 2003. yes a K1 is the code given to a bike manufactured in 2001. its common practise for dealers to register bikes later if they dont sell them that year or the next yada yada.

[YaelD]

Thanks for response however its the other way round, the bikes year of manufacture and registration is 2003 and yet a search reveals it to be a K1.

Is it possible that it's from the last batch of curvies built just before the change to pointies? But if so, wouldn't that make it a K2?

[madnlooney]

whats the ebay link. This will help.

[YaelD]

Can't get to the link just now, am on my phone, but here's a picture if that helps http://184.72.239.143/mu/57c286e1-c08c-e62e.jpg

[Bibio]

if an HPI check comes up clean then i wouldn't worry to much. the bike is more that likely a K2 registered in 2003. or one of the last batch to be imported into the country.

here is a link to the model history.

http://www.sv650.org/model_history_files/suzuki_sv650_model_history.htm

[toxic]

Can't get to the link just now, am on my phone, but here's a picture if that helps http://184.72.239.143/mu/57c286e1-c08c-e62e.jpg

that's a K1 all right. depending on how much you paid it's either a good deal or not.

basically you got a bike made in 2001 and registered in 2003. it has carbs and funny round shaped bodywork.

[YaelD]

OK thanks for all the responses...

So, the bike model is K1, suggesting a year of mfr of 2001 (though the checks show year of mfr as 2003), and registered in 2003. Everything else seems perfectly fine.

Should I still be concerned, or is this just one of 'those quirks' that turn up every now & again in the motoring world?

[Specialone]

This is very normal, I bought a brand new K7 in March 2009, it was barely different to a K8 and wasn't worth paying £500 more for a red seat.


As long as the price/HPi check is right, don't worry about it.

[-Ralph-]

Assuming of course you wanted a curvy. If you have your heart set on a pointy, and you've paid pointy prices, then you may want to walk away from it.

If your quite happy with a curvy, then there is nothing wrong with having a K1 bike on a 2003 plate. The year of manufacture IS 2001, NOT 2003, but that's probably just a screw up that was made when the bike was first registered. Basically this bike was made in the factory in 2001, but it was two years before somebody bought it. They probably got a good deal because it had just been replaced by the pointy model, and a dealer wanted to get rid of it.

Welcome to the forum and if you decide to keep it, enjoy the bike!

[YaelD]

OK, OK, OK ... now I've got it and am returning to calm and somewhat reassured. I hadn't realised the whole curvy/pointy difference thing until late last night and spent most of the night scrutinising images off the 'net (think I have it now). So no, I wasn't wedded to the bike being a pointy and in no way am I paying 2003 pointy prices!!

All's good, then.

Thanks for the welcome, and be prepared for other equally inane questions (just might get use to this forum-malarky ;) )

[garynortheast]

Never mind all the dates, you got a curvy which is the best sort to have!

Welcome along.

[JamesMio]

Never mind all the dates, you got a curvy which is the best sort to have!

Welcome along.

This man speaks sense. Welcome aboard!

[toxic]

Dude you totally screwed the pooch on this deal, pointies are where it's at! :D

Your only saving grace would be if it is an naked model, better than those plastic-wrapped-fairie-pseudo-sports-bikes any day of the week.

[carelesschucca]

Stay curvy. All the beautiful things in life have curves... I've never seen a woman thats all straight lines that I wanna ride its the same with bikes!!! Its black too, thats the fastest colour to have, GOOD CHOICE!!!

[Milky Bar Kid]

Black curvies rule!

[Jayneflakes]

Silver pointies are faster, even when restricted!

Welcome to the forum, enjoy your bike and get used to the place, it can be very friendly. Have a look in the regional groups and introduce yourself to your local one too.

Southwest Surfers are awesome, every one wants to join our club!

[Geodude]

Black curvies rule!
+1 even more cool naked and the bike ;) Good choice ride safe have fun :D

[-Ralph-]

You know how 954 blade owners say it's the best one ever built and all that, but really it's just 'cos they can't afford the new one that they secretly want. Well it's a bit the same with curvy owners, hence the above. You'll get used to such delusion if you stick around.

[YaelD]

Wey-Hey!! we have lift off ... well maybe not just yet. I've taken possession of one very fine naked black curvy. It's had a quick wash and spruce up so there's but one thing left to do to make it all really rather perfect ...

... ahem!

... pass my test :(

Due end of the month, so a serious amount of practice shall be required - but hating those figures of 8 even on my CG 125 ... but now my inspiration sitting temptingly outside my window, it shall be all the motivation, I need!!

Whoop!

(that really was a 'wey-hey' and a 'whoop' in a public post *hangs head in shame*)

[nikon70]

all very normal! i got a 2011 sv650... when they actually stopped making them in 2009.. go figure.