He also seemed genuinely shocked when I told him the same thing many weeks later!! He actually bought the frame and engine from a crashed bike that had been broken, and told me that the bike had not been advertised previously...
However he did tell me that the reason for all of the new parts were just part of a restoration and not a rebuild of a crashed bike?
That black front mudguard on "bike1" is so wrong. "bike2" looks very nice to me. Sometimes I miss my old 2001 748R...