[jonny.boyd]

Hi all,

So I'm not normally the paranoid type, however, thought I'd come to the org looking for some advice!

I recently put a deposit down on a VFR800 FI (1998 ) from a dealer in North London. Since placing this deposit I've been looking through the VFR forums a bit and yesterday stumbled across a thread in which the owner of a VFR was talking about how he's crashing his bike and destroyed the forks, along with some electrical problems.

Now the coincidental part is that the bike is pretty much identical to the one I've just put a deposit down on:

Colour: Black (Same)
Age: December 1997 (Same)
Milage: The post was from 2 / 3 years ago, and i'd been told by dealer it'd only done a few thousand in the last few years, so this adds up.
Location: London (Same)

Now this is when my paranoia kicked in... could this all just be a coincidence or could there be something the dealer isn't telling me?

Since this, I've emailed the dealer for a bit of clarifications regarding my concerns and have tried to hunt down this previous owner to see if it's the same bike (but to no avail).

So what would you do:

1. Walk away and hope the dealers nice enough to give you back the deposit
2. Ignore the paranoia - the bikes coming with 6 months warranty, so fall back on that.
3. Think, yes it could be the same bike, but it's probably been fixed up well enough for a dealer to sell it as perfect condition.
4. something else

And the obvious choice would be to go and check the bike out fully but with me being on the other side of the world and needing a mode of transport when I land back in UK that just isn't possible

Advice would be amazing!