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The 998r are numbered up to 700? on the yoke placque.
I seem to recall that official dealers got 3 each to sell?
A good few more came in as parallels. DUK may be able to tell you a bit about the origin from the VIN.
Personally I wouldn't be bothered regards the official/parallel thing. The most important bits of provenance are
Is it nicked!
Any Finance owing on it
has it been in a smash
service history, any r model should have cam belts every 12 months or 6K miles whichever is the sooner.
The 998r came with termis and the appropriate CPU, in addition to the std can/ECU setup, a cover, a pretty basic stand and some sort of little alloy trinket in a box!!
Most of which you should check out on any bike before splashing the cash.
If I can help any more U2U me,
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