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NORTH YORKS RS SPARES
Whats a " grey import " ?
I presume you mean ones that went to other countries but later imported into the uk ?
Theres grey imports and parallel imports, mostly from Japan brand new.
The parallel were brought in by dealers in addition to the factory allocation, and the greys were brought in by independent dealers with no dealer support (or warranty in many cases) for the simple reason that either the main dealers had run out of stock or they were just cheaper!
Thats the reason theres gsxr and vfr400's everywhere
Thats my understanding of it anyway, most of the grey imports were different to UK spec too, and mostly restricted and with kph clocks