It is OEM. The bikes in UK (and rest of Europe?) all came this way AFAIK. The bikes have the VF500F2 designation. We never got the North American...
Will do. Here's a picture of the bike.
OK, well we will just have to agree to differ on that one. Not that it really matters anyway, the VF500 springs don't seem to be up to the job...
That is news to me. I'll believe you if you can explain where this excess energy comes from that can raise the temperature of the spring. I would...
Could well be. I'm not a practical engineer, more a theoretician. However fatigue to me is about cracks. What you describe is more likely to be...
I have no more knowledge of the real failure mechanism than you guys, I'm just going on what I've read on here. I'm a professional engineer so...
The elastic modulus most certainly doesn't change with time. If it did the world would be a very different place. Fatigue is a very different...
Thanks for that. THe free length is the only thing that can affect the closing force of the spring(s). It's not like anything else can change. The...
Hello there, First post here. I'm a new VF500F2F owner (fully faired Euro model). I bought my 1986 bike in the UK a few weeks back after doing...
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