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British Bikes / Re: BSA Info
« on: September 19, 2018, 10:43:05 AM »
The V5c will tell you the date of first registration if it is 1992 then it will have a new number if the date is 1966 then it is highly likely that it is the original number. As an example my 1963 A65 had been off the road for approx 30 years when I bought it but I had the original RF60 log book so was able to claim the original registration when I registered it in 2010 but the V5c states first registered 23rd June 1963. A previous bike that I owned an A10 which I restored but had no paperwork and had to get an age related number was a 1957 bike but the V5c stated first registered 1996 which was when I put it on the road.

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British Bikes / Re: BSA Info
« on: September 11, 2018, 07:54:26 PM »
+You do not have to be a member of the BSA owners club to get the dispatch records for your bike it will cost you £15 a member pays £5.The person to contact is the librarian Steve Foden he can only be contacted by letter, his address is113 Holmville Road Bebington Wirral CH63 2PX. You need to send a Cheque payable to BSAOC library account also SAE envelope. You will also have to provide photos of the bike also pencil rubbings of the engine and frame numbers this is a requirement of the DVLA. For this you will recieve a document which will tell you when the bike left the factory who it was dispatched to also whether the engine and frame were together when they left the factory you may also be informed when it was first registered and what colour it was if he has that info. I am a member of the BSA owners club and done this a number of times for different bikes but be patient for a reply as this is a voluntary job and he does have a life to lead on average it usually takes about 2 weeks.

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British Bikes / Re: Best use ever for an old Indian Enfield?
« on: June 28, 2018, 05:59:52 PM »
It does not appeal to me seems an awful lot of money for what you get you could get an older enfield complete for that kind of money.
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British Bikes / Re: BSA A7 engine numbers
« on: March 05, 2018, 03:43:06 PM »
As has been said no engine numbers began with FA7 only frames. A possible explanation could be if there is no sign of tampering is that the cases were replacement ones supplied by the factory  if so these were not stamped by BSA but were supposed to be stamped up by the dealer but I have heard of cases that were not stamped by the dealer so you have 2 explanations 1 they were stamped by a dealer but were mistakenly stamped with a frame number or 2 a previous owner has done the same thing. The correct size  stamps are not hard to obtain.

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Autojumble / Re: 12 Volt Coil testing
« on: August 22, 2017, 12:17:52 PM »
If you go to youtube then type in 12volt coil testing you will find a number of videos showing you how to test your coil.

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British Bikes / Re: 1969 BSA A50 POSITIVE OR NEGITIVE EARTH
« on: July 12, 2017, 01:23:29 PM »
I have a 1963 A65 and it is positive earth it is fitted with Pazon electronic ignition which can be wired up either positive or negative earth.

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British Bikes / Re: BSA Maroon Paint code
« on: February 27, 2017, 08:59:52 AM »
I use Ford Imperial Maroon it is an old colour but you can still get it I bought a spray can on ebay and it is a good match.

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British Bikes / Re: British motorcycle history
« on: February 25, 2017, 05:46:34 PM »
If you read about the rise and fall of the BSA marque you will get a good perspective of what went wrong, there was no one single cause in my own opinion it was a combination of really very bad management government changes in the law and it has to be said strikes by the ordinary working man. A brief idea in regard to the afore mentioned reasons. Bsa owned Sunbeam Ariel and Triumph so in effect it was competing with itself when you think that take any of the Japanese manufacturers of the time Honda only made Honda motorcycles  Yamaha only made Yamaha bikes as did Suzuki also Kawasaki, also the management of the time relied too much on the loyalty of the British working man instead of taking on the Japanese manufacturers BSA had plenty of very good designers but the management refused to invest until it was too late. Also at that time the late fifties and maybe early sixties there were no regulations as to the size of bike you could ride you could  buy a 1000cc Vincent Black Shadow stick a couple of L plates on and away you go. When the government did change the law and limited learners to 250cc until they passed their test, learners had the choice of far superior Japanese small bikes and the British small bike market was the first to collapse. In regard to Strikes the british bike market  BSA and Triumph in particular also Norton were doing very well in America to the detriment at the time of Harley and Indian makers. Now in America the  bike buying was seasonal you had to have all your exports in the States at the beginning of the season what happened in 1970 was all the BSA and Triumph bikes were in the docks ready go when the dockers went on strike, BSA never really recovered from that strike and the Americans turned mainly to the Japanese. It is hard to understand how a company so big and diversified as BSA could not take on and beat the Japanese in 1959 BSA was the largest motorcycle producer in the world they owned numerous other companies such as Raliegh pedal cycles they owned Daimler cars Alfred Herbet machine tools they even owned a factory not far from where I live and made Caterpillar earth moving equipment under licence from Caterpillar in the USA, that factory is still there today but it is now owned by Komatsu making their own earth moving equipment.

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British Bikes / Re: bsa a65 lightning
« on: October 30, 2016, 10:40:14 AM »
I have an A65 and on completing the restoration I had what I  thought was stiff clutch operation that turned out to be the nipple in the lever binding a bit of lubrication solved the issue now have a light clutch sometimes it is the simple things that we overlook.

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British Bikes / Re: The goverment no M.O.T.
« on: November 28, 2015, 01:26:09 PM »
Only the tax element is rolling on each year the MOT part still remains at pre 1960.

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British Bikes / Re: should i try and start my motor
« on: September 09, 2015, 05:04:48 PM »
I have  a1963 A65 which I bought dismantled a few years ago although the engine was all in one piece.  As I did not know how long the the bike had been off the road I decided to completely dismantle the engine and I am glad I did as these old bikes have thing called a sludge trap in the crankshaft which collects the sludge, but if it has not run for some years this sludge goes hard and can really cut off or diminsh the supply of oil to the engine in my case the sludge trap was nearly completely blocked off with hardened sludge. So if that was my bike and did not know the history I would completely dismantle the engine you can do a lot of damage starting a bike that has stood for some time, but you do hear  of people that start bikes that have stood idle for some time without problems but do you want to take the gamble.

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British Bikes / Re: Is your classic too valuable to use?
« on: July 12, 2015, 06:02:54 PM »
I see where you are coming from but I think that most of the people that own classic bikes are rather elderly like myself and there is no way that if I get up one morning to go to a classic bike meet and it is raining and the forecast is no improvement then I will not be going it has nothing to do with the value of the bike but simply I see no pleasure riding in the rain any distance just to stand around in the rain done it to many times in my youth. If the forecast says only light showers in the morning and dry in the afternoon then depending on distance I would go in the afternoon even though I would have to spend quite a bit of time cleaning the bike the next day because of the wet roads.

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British Bikes / Re: What years of bike are concidered vintage
« on: June 21, 2015, 10:09:05 AM »
If you check on line you will find that cars have to have been manufactured before 1905

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British Bikes / Re: What years of bike are concidered vintage
« on: June 20, 2015, 06:43:12 PM »
Don't get hung up on this they are all just words Veteran Vintage Classic you have veteran soldiers, vintage wine, classic  cultures such as Greek or Latin and not forgetting the classic horse races I suppose it all depends on the way each individual looks at it. With regard to vehicles if you want enter the London to Brighton Veteran Run it has to have been built before 1905. I have no strong feelings myself if it is over 25 years old and no longer in production then  to me it is a classic but that is just my opinion others will probably differ. I think you will find that most people would consider your bantam as a classic as is my 1956 BSA A7 and 1963 BSA A65.

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British Bikes / Re: 42-5886 brake lever arm---- 1962 A50
« on: April 22, 2015, 07:18:12 PM »
I have a 1963 A65 and the parts are the same as yours.  the total length of the lever arm is 3.5/8 inches 2.7/8 inches between hole centers. The approx length of the cable measuring on the bike from the nipple in the brake lever to the nipple on the clevis pin is 41inches

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