New to VFR'S and new to this forum :D

my ones weird then lol, nowhere is anything on my bike in english, the fuel cap is japanese, the petcock, warning labels, all master cylinders haha

 

Grey Market as quoted from WhatIs.com :

"Gray market products may be less expensive than those bought through official distribution channels but are sometimes inferior. The products may be counterfeit or have counterfeit parts, for example; they may be second-hand products or contain second-hand components that are represented as new. In some cases, gray market products are authentic but distributed illegally, perhaps to exploit variations in costs and prices in different parts of the world. Warranties, updates or other support are usually not available for gray market products.

The term gray market reflects the somewhat ambiguous middle-ground between the completely legal products sold on the white market and the clearly illegal products sold on the black market.

In the stock market, the gray market involves the trading of new issues of shares before they're officially available. In this context, the gray market is also sometimes referred to as the parallel market."

Even though this description makes mention of inferior or counterfeit products, it does not necessarily mean they are. Just that there could be issues with service and warranty.

If a Canadian goes south of the border into the USA and buys a bike there, he will save lots of money on the purchase bike, but the Honda Authorized Dealerships in Canada are not supposed to honour the warranties or do service on these bikes. This to protect the interest of the Canadian Dealers. So these bikes purchased in the USA by Canadian and imported to Canada, would be considered grey merchandise.

 

thanks man, you explained that perfectly and clearly

 

Most of that was copy and paste. I can't take the credit.

 

i wont tell anyone haha

 

this is what the bike looked like when i bought it