I’m not sure if bikes are the same Mick, but if a car was written off under insurance they used to stamp XXXXX over the top of the engine number.
if this was the case it would have been sort of neat xxxx’s through the numbers.
not exactly sure if it was to prevent rebirthing or what. or to stop people from buying written off cars cheap and buying or stealing :angry: a second car and using the parts along with the write off’s id to make a “legit” id for the car.
as for the XR, either way it may have been stolen, or someone was sold a cheap bike that had been written off or made a bike from wreckers parts and then it could not be reg. only any good for off road private use.
Did you think to do a rev’s check on the vin? or engine number if you could still make out the engine number?
