Am I right to be worried?

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.

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?

whats the ebay link. This will help.

Can't get to the link just now, am on my phone, but here's a picture if that helps

[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_f...el_history.htm

Originally Posted by YaelD

Can't get to the link just now, am on my phone, but here's a picture if that helps

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.

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?

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.

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!