The conversation went like this.
"Is that your bike?"
"Yes."
"That looks like one of the old ones. It must be from Britain."
"No, it's from India."
"No!"
"Yes! It's a 2010."
"You've modified it."
"No, it's stock."
He thinks I'm having him on and gets a little irate.
"No. Let me show you what they look like now." He pulls out an iphone and shows me a picture of a lovely AVL or iron-barrel. "See? They make them with chrome now."
"Very nice. I wanted one of the chrome ones, but all they had left at the dealer was the green one, and they charged me a hundred bucks more for it!"
He looked at me for a moment, trying to size up if I was taking the piss, decided I was and walked away.
He was from India.