haha yeah I thought it may be the case, but from the very rough reading I could get in the poorly lit carpark, it seemed fine. The oil was last changed just under 2000kms ago, it's not blowing smoke, and the 2 oil leaks it currently has are negligible in this case.
Will go outside and have a look at the level now that it's light....on that note, when the engine is cold and hasn't been running, where should the oil level be? On the VL, it would be sitting halfway covering the "H" for high on the dipstick, though I don't know the sump size etc for the rb25 as compared to the rb30.