Is my bike an import?

Hi all,

O/H has just brought an SV1000s 2004. just noticed the owners handbook is in french!!! Does this mean its a french model? if so is the power restricted at all??? if it is restricted how do you bring up to full power?!?!

Bike was originally registered in uk!

any info appreciated!
thanks all

Out of curiousity are the clocks in mph or kmph?

[Richie]

Originally Posted by hongman

Out of curiousity are the clocks in mph or kmph?

If the speedo is in MPH then it's a UK model, as the Euro models cannot switch between KM / Miles like the UK versions Can :0)

hth's

That's what I was getting at, but was not 100% on those details

[CodeJACK]

Ehh,

Did i miss something or can you not simply hold in the right button on a pointy's clocks to switch between mph/kph?

So this point is then not correct/accurate.

The French do have power restriction on their bikes but I wouldnt imagine its all that different from the power restrictions Learner's get here.

Check the codes on the ECU and post them for folks to compare?

Originally Posted by Richie

If the speedo is in MPH then it's a UK model, as the Euro models cannot switch between KM / Miles like the UK versions Can :0)

hth's

Originally Posted by CodeJACK

Ehh,

Did i miss something or can you not simply hold in the right button on a pointy's clocks to switch between mph/kph?

So this point is then not correct/accurate.

UK models are switchable between kmh and mph, foreign models are not switchable and will only read kmh. Its something to do with Construction and Use regs in UK, but Johnny Foreigner hasn't got to worry about all that malarky, he just rides on kmh all the time in the third world countries he comes from.

PM me your vin or reg and I will run it through suzuki's warranty system which will confirm whether its an import or not.

[Paul the 6th]

Have you flicked all the way through the manual? Most manual's I've ever had with my bikes are usually made up of the same 20-40 pages of information repeated several times throughout the book in a variety of languages...

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by CodeJACK

The French do have power restriction on their bikes but I wouldnt imagine its all that different from the power restrictions Learner's get here.

The French law restricts bikes you'd find over here, to 106bhp.
So for instance you can have your zzr1400 over here with a full BHP of 197. But in France you should only expect to find one with its nuts cut off...at 106bhp.
Same goes for anything else, dunno what BHP a SV1000 is, but if it is French....it might not have what its supposed to have under the tank.