My MC21SE was allegedly even lower mileage than that Si, zero UK owners, and only 2 years old when I bought it. Yet when it finally became time time rebuild it (crank seals were dead) it was immediately apparent to the guy who did my crank that it had already been rebuilt! The bodywork was custom painted at my request, but I now don't for a minute believe it was otherwise a mint 2 year old low mileage SE as sold.

There are no doubt some out there, but unless it was new, you cannot be entirely sure of anything. That's not to say there aren't good used bikes though, quite the contrary, as I think the majority of (later) NSR's will have been well looked after by their owners, and possibly even "restored" to a point. I also think that the vast majority of them will be sold in the genuine belief that they are good bases to work/play with, unlike a lot of the trash the Suzuki and Aprilia boys have to contend with. While being a rarer JDM bike can sometimes (used to) be a pain in the ass, it also has it's benefits that very few of them apart from the MC16's and some MC18's seem to have been in the hands of the spotty 17 year old butchers!

I think Rich's MC21 is an unusually extreme example, but most NSR's (like 3XV's and VJ23's) are always at least few hundred quid more expensive than a UK VJ21/VJ22/RS250, and that's good news for us regardless of whether you are selling, keeping, or even looking for an NSR, as the ham-fisted heathens will almost always buy the cheaper bike to f**k up yet more!
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