Model year vs rego year

[pritch]

There's a couple of things going on here:

When you are selling the bike you can use the year of registration.
When you are ordering parts you had better use the year of manufacture.

My bike is registered 2006 but it is actually a 2005 model.
Big difference including whole different engine, so when ordering parts...

[slowpoke]

To me demos are crap - 1st miles are most important miles for mechanical life and sympathy and care are needed which ain't what a demo gets .

Openin' up a big ass can o' worms there. We're into the 21st century where they dyno bikes/engines straight off the assembly line, so there's not much you or I could do to hurt it on road. Especially something like a CBR1000. Short of malicious damage, in todays motoring environment you'd have to try fuggin' hard to even slightly stress it.

It would be interesting to hear from bike shops on this but I'd even hazard a guess that the average test rider is more cautious than most owners. Horrendous test ride insurance premiums, and an unfamiliar bike see to that.

[Gremlin]

plenty of test riders take them for a thrashing, but the shop usually puts the first 500km to 1000km on it...