Roger, you were spot on. Opened it all up and filter was only slightly black apart from a few flies and bees. Still, I cleaned it all up cause I'd have felt silly not to, and in any case, it turns out it takes as long for the filter to dry as it does for me to check the valve clearances - the Suzuki V is a bitch to work on for newbies anyways. The whole dismantle, clean filter, replace sparkplugs and check clearances took me 5 hours! Luckily all in spec but some are close to the limit, I can't imagine the pain in readjusting the blasted shims when the time comes.
For what it's worth, the next time I look at the K&N filter will be at least 15k miles away, assuming I don't ride through Dust Armageddon, but even then it will be 10k miles at least.
Thanks for all your help guys.
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