This Harley Davidson MT500 motorcycles were used to be built by a company called Armstrong. Harley bought the tooling from them and started building them in Pennsylvania.
Unique bikes, but a bit heavy & underpowered. However that is easily changed as they come with a bullitproof Rotax engine that can be made to put out 75+ streetable, reliable horsepower with some work. I've seen some of the flattrack guys with these engines putting out 90 HP. Try that with a KLR!
After a basic Rotax-engined design had been created in Italy, and been passed around SWM & Bombardier - the Armstrong-CCM company started supplying MT500 bikes to the UK army in 1984. Around 1987, the military motorcycle production was sold to Harley-Davidson, and they were built by H-D.
A small number of electric-start MT500s are around. Never supplied to the British Army, but believed to have been used by the Jordanian and Canadian armies. Ex-army, these are probably badged M50. Some electric-start civilian MT500s exist in the UK market. This may have followed an attempt by Armstrong to build a Police-spec motorcycle, though we don't think the Police ever took them on. May be white, may have been 300 sold, some may be 560cc.
You may find these Harley Davidson Soldier Bikes in eBay! for few thousand bucks!
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