Year of manufacturing?

[Tikka]

Is there a way to tell the year of manufacturing of a V Raptor 1000? I tried to find it on the net with the chassisnumber but couldn't find more then that it is a Cagiva V Raptor. My V Raptor is registered in 2008 and probably stored for years before it hit the roads. I'm just wondering for how long.

[ozzraptor]

They only made v raptors to 2005 i believe, should be on the bike somewhere. Yeah my bike was stored for many years, it has just over 10,000klms now. Off the subject a little i have heard they only made 600 x raptors out of the 999 . Tikka how many klms does your bike have and where are you?

[Tikka]

Mine has 19.000 km on it. I bought it with 12.000 km on it in march 2012. Normally i do a lot more km a years but a house rebuild and a shoulder injury prevented me doing more. I live in the Netherlands, region Zoetermeer. Can the year be found on the frame?

[OkBails]

On the australian ones they are on the right side of the frame near the head stock on the vin plate/sticker.

[ozzraptor]

The plate on mine is under the seat rail

[OkBails]

The plate on mine is under the seat rail

Ha ha, lol. Maybe they were bored at the factory?

[Tikka]

The plates on my frame near the headstock doesn't have a year of manufacturing on it
http://tikka.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Ov ... -BcBm9JL/A

[ozzraptor]

The plate on mine is under the seat rail

Ha ha, lol. Maybe they were bored at the factory?

Yeah long story, mines also has vin riveted on like a plate,not sticker. i think the vin denotes the year of manufacture, i am not sure how to work out the number sequence, someone else will know.
Got this from another website, digit number 10 denotes year, some moe info here

http://www.motorcycleforums.net/forum/t ... umber.html

[ozzraptor]

The plates on my frame near the headstock doesn't have a year of manufacturing on it
http://tikka.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Ov ... -BcBm9JL/A

your year of manufacture is on the other sticker at the back behind the front sticker! Looks like your code is Y (year (00) 2000 according to that website info if its correct. Seems about right for ZCGM201AAYV000380

[Tikka]

Indeed, looks like it's a 2000 then. Poor thing, it has been locked up for 8 years before it was set free.

[ozzraptor]

Indeed, looks like it's a 2000 then. Poor thing, it has been locked up for 8 years before it was set free.

could be a good thing