Quote Originally Posted by fitzy View Post
Cheers marshy I spoke to Steve club preso and he said he will try run the Vin on the yamaha www. And go thay way and match the Vin. Told me that the compliance plate he reckoned had nothing to do with the year. Fingers crossed it comes up. I did find some info on a Vin site that shows bike is a 2011 r6 so hopefully that's good enough.

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I've had this argument with Steve before, and seeing as he owns a bike shop, you'd think he'd get it. The tenth digit of every VIN of every vehicle, car and motorcycle, worldwide, gives the MODEL YEAR. It's not rocket surgery. Saves all that crap with bikes that are 12/10 being eligible (I'm looking at you Binksy - but don't worry, I did the same thing on a 12/07-plated 2008 R6 in 2012), when they are 2011 models and didn't really come out in large numbers until 2011.

Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicl..._year_encoding