guys i have just stumbled across a very handy web site with all kinds of good info in it about the gsx250f including info about the difference in the different models with photos, this is thru google translate http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3D33543-05c00%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D839%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=ja&u=http://homepage3.nifty.com/tam_network/across/across_info.html&usg=ALkJrhjS2olJrwu_RUA46IZrKrub1OOQ7A#database
check out this guy who has over 300,000 kays in his GSX250F and had toured on it for many years and been featured in a magazine http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3D33543-05c00%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D839%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=ja&u=http://www.bea.hi-ho.ne.jp/tetsu-t/across.html&usg=ALkJrhjuyuzbUWfy21WJZPiiZnwqsimvMA