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What is a VF500F2F ?

6 posts Started 13 Jul 2010 Last recovered post 13 Jul 2010 Wayback Machine snapshot 4 Jun 2011
#1 InterFester Thread starter
Is this merely a VF500F with F2 parts on it or is it an actual model? What are the differences?
#2 timmythecop
its the year (or model) designation of european bikes. I'm not sure, but it might even correspond to the brittish tag system where different years have different letters at the begining. Like in UK magazines, the for sale ads say "For sale, G Reg Husaburg"...the g meaning the year.
#4 GazVF500
Yes, it's the last letter of the name that refers to the year.

The VF500F2 is the European version with different fairing and the comstar rivet-together wheels, amongs other differences.


For example a VF500F2E was made in 1984, while a F2F is an '85. '86 models are still referred to as F2F, for some reason, when really it should be an F2G.

Some interesting reading here on Honda model codes and names.

http://www.cmsnl.com...?fq_catid=14#16

In British magazines, when you see them refer to a "G-registration", it's because the registration (I guess you guys would call it the title) stays with the bike in the UK, not the owner. From 1961 up to 2001, the single letter of the registration mark referred to the year. Up to 1982, the single letter was at the end of the registration and went from A to Y (missing out I, Q and Z as it was decided that they look too much like numbers. Q is used for stolen/recovered and highly modified vehicles), whereas from 1983 it was at the beginning.

Curiously enough, the year each letter referred to started in August and ran through to the end of July the following year.

So a G-reg is from either late 1988 or early 89.

My VF500 is an '86, and is on a D-registration.
#5 InterFester Thread starter
Groovy, thanks for the info and full color brochure! I suppose the full fairing would bolt right on to an American model VF500F. I'm more of a fan of half fairings that expose the engine but the F2F fairing lines look good.
#6 bryan217

[image: View Post]GazVF500, on 13 July 2010 - 01:48 AM, said:

Yes, it's the last letter of the name that refers to the year.

The VF500F2 is the European version with different fairing and the comstar rivet-together wheels, amongs other differences.


For example a VF500F2E was made in 1984, while a F2F is an '85. '86 models are still referred to as F2F, for some reason, when really it should be an F2G.

Some interesting reading here on Honda model codes and names.

http://www.cmsnl.com...?fq_catid=14#16

In British magazines, when you see them refer to a "G-registration", it's because the registration (I guess you guys would call it the title) stays with the bike in the UK, not the owner. From 1961 up to 2001, the single letter of the registration mark referred to the year. Up to 1982, the single letter was at the end of the registration and went from A to Y (missing out I, Q and Z as it was decided that they look too much like numbers. Q is used for stolen/recovered and highly modified vehicles), whereas from 1983 it was at the beginning.

Curiously enough, the year each letter referred to started in August and ran through to the end of July the following year.

So a G-reg is from either late 1988 or early 89.

My VF500 is an '86, and is on a D-registration.


Wow, thanks for clearing that up. I'm really confused now! :goofy:
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