Duplicate VIN numbers?

[flynrider]

At the time all this was being discussed, I said I'd found an explanation of the model codes in positions 4-8 of the VIN. I just found it again here.

If this is right, 'S' means a capacity of more than 900 cc and 'C' means it's a street bike. There is no explanation of where 65 comes from.

That is correct. Big Honda street bikes are SC , mid size (like my CB750) are RC and so on... The 65 is just the next sequential model number that was available when the bike was designed.

Somewhere on the 'net I've seen a web page that lists all Hondas by model number. You can see from that the numeric model number gets higher as the years go by. Not sure what Honda is going to do when they finally reach "99".

Edit : Here's the page I was talking about. It's on the same web site. [url=http://www.vsource.org/VFR-RVF_files/BHondaPCNs.htm]http://www.vsource.org/VFR-RVF_files/BHondaPCNs.htm

Looks like the SCs are up to number 74 (CTX1300AE) and the RCs are up to number 83 (CB/CBR650F).