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British Bikes / Re: Help identifying a petrol tank
« on: November 11, 2025, 09:18:38 AM »
Looks like a late 1940s C range tank I have, and also looks like the A7 tank in the photo.
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British Bikes / Re: Villiers headlamp switch
« on: October 24, 2025, 10:01:34 AM »they originally gave but wangling a replacement in and out of that headlight clip every month or so would drive me nuts.
You and everyone else, so after the one BSA supplied (if they ever did) went up the swanee doubtless they were never replaced. Just park off-road or where a copper isn't going to visit.
If someone was poor enough to be riding a little two-stroke in the 1950s, wasting money on dry-cells would have been well down the list of necessary expenditures.
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British Bikes / Re: Villiers headlamp switch
« on: October 22, 2025, 09:28:11 AM »
Those little dry cell parking arrangements were no more than "work-arounds" for the odd parking regs in force in some parts of the UK. Some used to hang red and white parking lamps and even oil lamps on their car door handles at night.
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British Bikes / Re: Villiers headlamp switch
« on: October 14, 2025, 09:09:15 PM »
That old and no chewed screw heads. Can't have seen much use.
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British Bikes / Re: Bonneville's Got a Crunch
« on: October 08, 2025, 06:40:57 PM »
Yes, simplistically, set the clutch adjustment up by the book. This happens when the clutch pushrod throw is adjusted to push "too far".
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British Bikes / Re: Bonneville's Got a Crunch
« on: October 06, 2025, 12:50:09 PM »
Sounds like the balls in the clutch release mechanism are over-ramping.
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British Bikes / Re: Triumph 650
« on: October 01, 2025, 09:26:37 AM »
Dunno, but I fitted an entire late 60's Bonnie top and bottom ends into T110 crankcases.
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British Bikes / Re: AJS 16M 1951
« on: August 12, 2025, 03:37:47 PM »
True enough. Both books and even better still, find on-line forums for more real world 70 years on solutions.
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British Bikes / Re: AJS 16M 1951
« on: August 12, 2025, 11:53:22 AM »
Far better, in my experience, is the little Pitmans manuals for most makes, in this case written by the AMC service manager FW Neill.
Usually these books are on Ebay for a tenner at most.
Usually these books are on Ebay for a tenner at most.
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British Bikes / Re: AJS 16M 1951
« on: July 29, 2025, 07:10:55 PM »
Or is it timed on the compression stroke?
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British Bikes / Re: What is this BSA Frame??
« on: July 28, 2025, 03:47:47 PM »
The rear plunger section is likely from an A series or B series BSA, but as for the rest?
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British Bikes / Re: AJS 16M 1951
« on: July 22, 2025, 08:08:41 PM »
Grandma's eggs here, but you should wind the engine backwards a lot further, then winD forward until the timing point is reached. otherwise the lash in the gears will throw your timing out.
I usually start my bikes on just a little retard (rather than half) but all bikes are different and yours might need more retard.
I usually start my bikes on just a little retard (rather than half) but all bikes are different and yours might need more retard.
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British Bikes / Re: AJS 16M 1951
« on: July 17, 2025, 05:58:23 PM »
No, you can't just centre pop the gears as you need to synchronise the position of the piston on the firing stroke with the position of the mag points.
Simple enough if you have a manual. FW Neill is a good one.
Simple enough if you have a manual. FW Neill is a good one.
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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: Using relays to upgrade your headlight.
« on: July 14, 2025, 09:03:06 AM »
Sounds like Kiwi Google to me...
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British Bikes / Re: Finding neutral
« on: July 06, 2025, 09:34:56 AM »
I've set the pressure plate run-out with a DTI, and you don't get a squarer lift than that.
Into Neutral before rolling to a stop is pretty much essential on many old bikes.
Into Neutral before rolling to a stop is pretty much essential on many old bikes.