I've encountered the same thing but in of all places, a BMW rally. I entered my pristine, all original /5 in the contest, in the /5 division - and the trophy went to ...... some young kid with a totally reworked, repainted, 2-1 exhausted, white faced rebuilt speedo /5. I was pissed. I haven't really attended that rally since and if I did, I certainly didn't enter my bike in the judging contest. Jeeze, I really thought BMW people would be better at this sort of thing, lol.