[Nasher]

Service books are useful as with a little doctoring they can be used to add value to a vehicle with no service history.

Even if the book itself isn’t changed and passed on, a mediocre Photoshop user can change the details easily and produce ‘back up’ scans, or in the past photocopies, of lost service books for any number of similar bikes.

I've also seen this in the past with older high value cars that can have had several changes of private plate being used as an excuse for reg. number changes in the book alongside badly over written engine/chassis numbers that can be read as different characters depending on what you want to see.

I’m sorry to say that having had various attempts to scam me in this respect in the past I personally wouldn’t consider a scan of a service book as evidence that it ever had one.

I too am VERY suspicious of the dealer in this case.

Nasher.