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[Pterodactyl_imp]

Not sure what you mean, Randy. The manufacture date can be discovered by looking at the 10th digit of the VIN. I don't know about the US but there is often real confusion in OZ about year of manufacture/model year/year of first registration where all those dates can theoretically be different.

Randy' photo shows the Compliance Plate, or label. It shows that, despite the year of manufacture, it is a 2013 MODEL. This is not a Honda Plate as such (?) and is not mentioned in the Honda manual under labels and stamps. Or maybe, if on the steering neck, is listed as safety information. Mine has no label, just a stamped number on the neck. The Aus Compliance plate is attached to the left frame rail. Compliance plates are Legislative requirements and differ between Legislatures. I see Randy's mentions tyre and rim size. Mine, for example, is an Australian plate and has a different appearance to Randy's. The month and year of manufacture is stamped on Aus compliance plates. This is supplemental information to that on the compliance plate and chassis stamped VIN and should, naturally, be in agreement. This makes date of manufacture easily accessible to the average punter who may not be able to read VINs. Without this information the date of first registration may be passed off, by the unscrupulous, as date of manufacture. Mine is stamped 5/10. From my very unreliable memory bank, I think Cormanus' is stamped 4/11, or thereabouts. In any case both bikes are 2010 models. A 2011/12 model, as such, was not designed or manufactured. On the other hand, the 2013 model is very different and was designed as a new model of the CB1100. Kevin's bike, I believe, is among the last of the run of 2010 models, manufactured in 2012. There may be slight differences in bikes depending on where they sit on the assembly run. Small design changes, slightly different components if external suppliers change, or make changes, will result in differences but the base model does not change. In Cormanus', Kevin's and my case a 2010 model. The Compliance Plate for Cormanus' and my bike show the same compliance rules have been complied with during manufacture. VIN and date of manufacture are, obviously, different. Reading between the lines I believe that compliance rules change between States in the US, unlike Aus where we have design rules legislated under a Commonwealth Act of Parliament (covers all of Aus States and Territories).



Cheers.