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When Harley-Davidson thirty years ago bought the MT500 stateside and purchased the rights to Armstrong, an English motorcycle manufacturer and officially enters the military market was born one of the rarest, fastest combat motorcycles ever built: the 1999 MT500.

The design started in Italy when Italian outfit SWM produced an army bike using the Austrian-built Rotax single for power, before finding its way to Britain, where the Armstrong-CCM company known for making engines and designs for the British army military bikes, start producing them in in 1984.

As a result of the firm orientation and army contract, the model saw military use in Britain, Jordan, and Canada until it was phased out in 2000.

There are two reasons for bringing this brand under the corporate umbrella.First one wasa Six Flags roller-coaster ride and an extinction level meteor strike, in terms of entertainment. Yesterday's failure was unexpected to regular viewers, only in its grand-slam grandeur, not its existence.

Kevin Towers traded to get Reed in December 2013, for third-base prospect Matt Davidson. and at the time, the SnakePit generally liked it: 52% rated it as great or good, compared to 29% giving it a poor or terrible rating. In some ways, that's not necessarily wrong: Davidson had a wretched 2014, hitting below the Uecker Line in AAA and, while he's doing better this season (a .763 OPS through 30 games), is still striking out in over 30% of his plate appearances. But my concerns were more to do with what I called in May 2014, the "mirage