Vintage Thing No. 15.1 - Armstrong MT500
Pete Low dropped by the other day on his Armstrong on MT500 and as you can see from the photographs he's developed a few refinements for this bike since it was first dubbed a Vintage Thing. The mechanical specification remains the same but he's added a bigger 22 litre tank from a Honda XL500 and a low level Acerbis front mudguard. He's also invested in a pair of Oxford heated handlebar grips, since Pete rides his bike all year round, unlike some of us - like me, for instance - who freely admit to be fair weather riders. The new headlamp unit is an Acerbis Cyclops, which can take HID (High Intensity Discharge) bulbs. Sort of. Acerbis make quite a few different types, but the Cyclops is the only one Pete’s seen that is "E marked" & street legal. An interesting discovery has been, that Acerbis make a clear plastic shield that is tailor made, covering both main & dip to guard against breakage. Somewhere between Essex and Cornwall he inexplicably suffere...