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British Bikes / Re: Hi - new member
« on: July 09, 2009, 04:06:47 PM »
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G'day,

It's great to see an honest example of a British commuter doing what it does best - commuting.  Too many old bikes are mollycoddled these days when what they really cry out for is a decent flogging

Good luck with the Bantam; no doubt it'll still be running happily in 10-20-30 years time given the chance!

That's what I recon.... although if commuting is the bantam forte, I wouldn't like to use it for what its not up to!! with a bit of maintenance hopefully it'll go on for a bit.

cheers for the reply, is there much of a brit bike following in Aus?

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British Bikes / Hi - new member
« on: July 09, 2009, 01:12:35 PM »
Hello all,

I've been looking for a forum to help me keep my little bantam on the road for a while now so will picking through the tech section in a second and asking a few more questions no doubt!

I'm a Cornish bey that somehow got lost in London and I now work fairly central and ride my '53 D1 the 10mile each way journey every day....its a tough city ride and it takes its toll on a 60+ year old vehicle. But as bits break or fall off, I try to replace them. There's something rewarding about trying to predict when something's going wrong; getting the parts required and repairing/replacing them of an evening before the ride to work again! I haven't been let down too badly yet - there's always the tube (I hate the tube)

Anyway, apologies if its frowned upon to ride such a classic in such an ugly way, but hey, better that then left to rust away in a shed!

so here it is;


so far I've;
converted to 12v
freshened the brakes (they need to be tip top in London traffic I can tell you!)
done a bit of standard running gear maintenance
made a bit of a silencer to try not to draw quite so much attention!
delved into the engine so far as the piston/head/barrel and given it all a good clean/decoke + smoothed the inlet/exhaust port castings a bit
changed the gearbox oil

and thats about it...... so Hi!

cheers

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