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now that one is an oddity. an mt500 with harley sidepanels that look like armstrong panels.
no doubt someone will be along to clarify.

brian

That's a great disguise, I thought you bought a Royal Enfield???

Yep royal enfield up and running my 500 for some tlc next

nice one, like the silencer ,thats loud

bth2bth2 wrote:now that one is an oddity. an mt500 with harley sidepanels that look like armstrong panels.
no doubt someone will be along to clarify.

brian

From what I understand when the yanks bought Armstrong they started producing them as Harley until the 350 came out.

Are there any 350 panels out there that are badged Armstrong? If so, I would like some!

No no no no. When HD bought the rights, they still had to provide spares to the British Army for the existing bikes. They were not allowed to use the Armstrong name but still had to provide side panels to replace lost ones. Rather than provide blank ones, they were happy to have HD on them.
(Source: Force Motorcycles, conversation 2014).


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I have deleted my erroneuos post in the light of information from Force

Thank you for that that's the bike but i put a standard exhaust on and the bags new mudguard handle bars too but sadly i work a tata steel and 785 people have to go so a 2 or 3 of my bikes have to go for naw chin up tho