spoke to the bike training instructor (forgot he's name though!) and he's recently acquired this low mileage TDM 850 which he loves. Tis in fine fettle. I versed he in the oil checking palava and checked it for him only to find it is way over full by about half a litre at a guess, so over full there there is dried on spatters of oil around the outlet pipes of the (still stock) silencers! Gave him a Carpe calling card. Nice talking at you.
Ken