preed wrote:
I'm pretty sure it is a 1989 Mk2 (it was first registered in 1989). If it helps, it is in the black/red and silver paint scheme.

Most likely a 1989 "Seed" R5K, but so much is interchangeable if you know what you're doing (or even if you don't, at times!), that photos are the only real way to tell. It could even be an 89 with an 88 (or 90~97) motor and/or electrics! It wouldn't be the first!

The importers seem to be buying the cheapest bikes they can, to sell on at the maximum profit they can. It wouldn't be so bad if they were honest about it, as after all, maximising profit is what any business is about, but they're not, and often selling bikes as "low mileage" or "rebuilt" when clearly they are not. As I say, we've had motors in that have literally destroyed themselves after even just a few hundred miles.

preed wrote:
Does this enable you to shed any more light on what might be causing the problem?

Unfortunately, yes. I would strongly suspect the centre crank seal if it's 1989.
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