For £1500 you can find a mint 99-02 bike with less than 20,000 miles. Best thing to do is to take someone who knows what they are looking at with you, its hard to see whats wrong if your not sure whats right. I took a mate with me to buy my curvy and let him check the bike, i test rode it and checked it worked as best i could (it was my first ride of a bike bigger than 250cc) it all seemed ok so i bought it. I think if i had seen a bike and not had a second opinion from a mate i could have bought a bad one.
Good luck with the MOD 2, you are going to have loads and loads of fun on the SV
