MT 500 Scrambler
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:04 pm
OK chaps, time to declare my plans. Then I have to follow them through don't I?
After catching the MT bug with this years' Pyrenees Twinshock Trailfinder, the bike really showed its age and problems so it came home in need of some TLC.
So a full strip & rebuild is required. Then I got to thinking. . . .
I have always been strongly influenced by my Dads bikes from when I was a child. For this reason I own a 2003 Hinckley Bonneville because it gives me the classic 60s style with modern comfort and reliability. So why not create something similar with the Armstrong?
Sorry to the purists but you've got to admit the MT is pretty fugly.
So I have stripped off the square shouldered mudguards, the (very 80s) rectangular headlight and the hump-back tank (which is leaking anyway) and I will replace them with parts that resemble a 60s scrambler.
Aluminium curved mudguards, Round chrome headlight, rounder tank and finally replace the side panels with racing oval number plates.
As a final insult to the purists, there won't be a trace of green.
So far I've taken the engine to be "Mintered" (I've given up on the electric start, my pockets aren't that deep). I've bought the mudguards, tank & lights...
And I've given myself a deadline of the North Wales trip to get it finished.
Watch this space......
After catching the MT bug with this years' Pyrenees Twinshock Trailfinder, the bike really showed its age and problems so it came home in need of some TLC.
So a full strip & rebuild is required. Then I got to thinking. . . .
I have always been strongly influenced by my Dads bikes from when I was a child. For this reason I own a 2003 Hinckley Bonneville because it gives me the classic 60s style with modern comfort and reliability. So why not create something similar with the Armstrong?
Sorry to the purists but you've got to admit the MT is pretty fugly.
So I have stripped off the square shouldered mudguards, the (very 80s) rectangular headlight and the hump-back tank (which is leaking anyway) and I will replace them with parts that resemble a 60s scrambler.
Aluminium curved mudguards, Round chrome headlight, rounder tank and finally replace the side panels with racing oval number plates.
As a final insult to the purists, there won't be a trace of green.
So far I've taken the engine to be "Mintered" (I've given up on the electric start, my pockets aren't that deep). I've bought the mudguards, tank & lights...
And I've given myself a deadline of the North Wales trip to get it finished.
Watch this space......
or better still some water colours 
