The original Honda team on the Isle of Man, 1959.
Duc of the Day
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John Surtees - Champion
836 Cafe
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I thought I recognized this bike, but not as a Harley…..
When is a Harley-Davidson not really a Harley-Davidson? When it’s an Armstrong, of course! The military motorcycle plot thickens on both sides of the Atlantic: Allan Johnson stirs the soup…
There’s some rather interesting background history to the origins of the Armstrong MT500 and 350, which also explains how H-D got back into the military motorcycle field.
These bikes originated from the Italian SWM Tornado in the early 1980s, in an attempt to make a street-legal model to go with their competition line-up. It was also developed in a military version, but the firm was in financial trouble and, in the collapse, the design went to Armstrong-CCM.
Read more here: www.realclassic.co.uk
The U.S. MT500 is one of the rarest and lowest production motorcycles ever made by Harley-Davidson in their York, PA. Manufacturing plant. Sources say only 200+ were ever produced for 1999. One of the first bikes ever made.
Hmmm…I think I recognize this bike….
(Source: themotart-journal.com)
