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British Bikes / Re: BSA Bantam D1
« on: January 13, 2012, 09:37:50 PM »
New ones look to be available.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40957222/BSA-Bantam
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40957222/BSA-Bantam
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American Bikes / Re: Indian Chief stroker
« on: January 11, 2012, 09:21:49 PM »
Don't the heads also need to be the 80" type ?
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American Bikes / Re: 1924 scout parts
« on: January 11, 2012, 09:20:54 PM »
Indian Parts Europe, IPE will probably have a lot of that stuff.
Search on that name should find them.
Magneto will probably have to come from ebay watching, and then need overhauling.
Search on that name should find them.
Magneto will probably have to come from ebay watching, and then need overhauling.
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British Bikes / Re: bsa m21 1939
« on: January 11, 2012, 09:16:25 PM »
Can't help with a pic, but this auction shows several catalogs, which seem to say "The largest motor cycle dealer".
Also gives the street numbers, 70 looks to be the first one - a Flightcentre shop, could be an ex-showroom.
http://www.cheffins.co.uk/lot/-425045-vintage-0
There are several firms of that name still in business, they may know something of their earlier history ? Sir Rowland Smith had something to do with it ??
Will be a big archive of pics somewhere, the local library is sure to have some, probably not online though. Hope this helps.
Also gives the street numbers, 70 looks to be the first one - a Flightcentre shop, could be an ex-showroom.
http://www.cheffins.co.uk/lot/-425045-vintage-0
There are several firms of that name still in business, they may know something of their earlier history ? Sir Rowland Smith had something to do with it ??
Will be a big archive of pics somewhere, the local library is sure to have some, probably not online though. Hope this helps.
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Autojumble / Re: 1932 250 4 Valve Rudge rear frame section WANTED
« on: January 09, 2012, 10:54:58 AM »
If its been well done that is a facinating little bit of history.
And you can use it while hunting for parts which may be sought after, and tough to track down.
And you can use it while hunting for parts which may be sought after, and tough to track down.
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British Bikes / Re: Excelsior Sports Talisman Twin 1954, value
« on: January 09, 2012, 10:46:21 AM »
Difficult decision !
A different approach may be to suggest a model of bike that you would be willing to swap for it, make the 'purchaser' work for the trade as it were. Maybe even something modern, not necessarily expensive, which can similarly be kept in original and working condition, to trade like for like ?
A different approach may be to suggest a model of bike that you would be willing to swap for it, make the 'purchaser' work for the trade as it were. Maybe even something modern, not necessarily expensive, which can similarly be kept in original and working condition, to trade like for like ?
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Identify these bikes! / Re: has somone got a photo and motorcycle Montgomery
« on: January 09, 2012, 10:37:43 AM »
Bruce Main Smith has photocopy sets with a 1938 sales brochure, just may show what you want ?
http://brucemain-smith.com/frames.html
photocopy sets, M,
1938 Sales Catalogue. All models. Ref no:- 1965 PRICE £3.70
The Vintage Club Library may likewise have something, and will have a Marque expert.
Hopethishelps.
http://brucemain-smith.com/frames.html
photocopy sets, M,
1938 Sales Catalogue. All models. Ref no:- 1965 PRICE £3.70
The Vintage Club Library may likewise have something, and will have a Marque expert.
Hopethishelps.
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British Bikes / Re: hi im new to the forum
« on: January 06, 2012, 10:03:33 AM »then there's no reason why one of those little telescopic after-market dampers couldn't be used on girders either.
That is precisely what we are talking about.
Apparently quite effective...
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British Bikes / Re: hi im new to the forum
« on: January 06, 2012, 07:49:45 AM »
Can't show a pic don't have one. They arrived fitted to forks at a rally, so despite doubts they work, haven't tried them to verify. Fitted vertically, bolted one end to yokes and other end to fork blades - ie one end to the moving bit and t'other to the solid fixed bit.
P.S. Modern forks have both compression and rebound damping, usually adjustable separately. Even friction dampers have a measure of compression damping....
P.S. Modern forks have both compression and rebound damping, usually adjustable separately. Even friction dampers have a measure of compression damping....
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British Bikes / Re: hi im new to the forum
« on: January 04, 2012, 10:02:03 PM »I've seen them fitted and working.......where ? my understanding of this type of unit is that it works in both directions and would only make the forks ridigid ,
Suggest you have a look at some of the little steering dampers around then - far from being 'rigid' they have gentle damping, in both directions like you say, adjustable stronger or weaker. Fitted to the girder fork action, they provide a modicum of hydraulic damping, adjustable with a click.
If they'd been available in the 1920s, would have sold gaziilions...
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British Bikes / Re: hi im new to the forum
« on: January 04, 2012, 04:45:04 PM »A simple hydraulic steering damper adapted ? will not work you need to take a good look at how they work
I've seen them fitted and working.
Damping the basic girder fork action, that is.
Not acting as a steering damper.
Damping on girder forks was quite a late invention ? how late ? how early are you talking , do you think it was a good idea
You don't see too many 1920s bikes with any form of (friction) damping on the girder forks. And they all (?) survived.
Hydraulic damping didn't appear until the 1940s (?).
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British Bikes / Re: hi im new to the forum
« on: January 04, 2012, 04:17:32 AM »wheres the dampening on the forks , might be like a pogo stick
Damping on girder forks was quite a late invention - girder forks WERE pogo sticks for many decades. Not many early teles had any real damping either...
A simple hydraulic steering damper adapted to the girder fork action gives fork damping decades beyond their design...
Think that frame should be professionally welded....
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Identify these bikes! / Re: NEED ID's FOR 1920s MACHINES
« on: December 24, 2011, 12:46:50 AM »The other bike has me a bit puzzled for the moment - I think I'm stuck on how much the cylinder looks like a miniature version of a side valve Norton!
The crankcase is curious in that bike too - raleigh or sturmey archer, with Norton top end - modified to fit. ??
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British Bikes / Re: Ariel Red Hunter 1946 Smiths Speedo
« on: December 21, 2011, 01:25:36 AM »
Speedos also vary in whether they are calibrated in mph or km/hr.
And even clockwise or anticlock in some cases...
In the immediate postwar era, 80mph would have been common and 120 mph probably optional, as a clockwise chronometric type (the needle ticks upwards like a clock, not a smooth sweep like the 1960s magnetic type).
Almost all speedos will work on any bike, whether they read correctly is something else. A speedo expert can generally rework the internals so any speedo will read and show whatever you want.
Someone somewhere will have the Smiths chart that says what numbers your speedo would have had originally - actually finding exactly that one is something else.
Hopethishelps.
And even clockwise or anticlock in some cases...
In the immediate postwar era, 80mph would have been common and 120 mph probably optional, as a clockwise chronometric type (the needle ticks upwards like a clock, not a smooth sweep like the 1960s magnetic type).
Almost all speedos will work on any bike, whether they read correctly is something else. A speedo expert can generally rework the internals so any speedo will read and show whatever you want.
Someone somewhere will have the Smiths chart that says what numbers your speedo would have had originally - actually finding exactly that one is something else.
Hopethishelps.
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British Bikes / Re: My lucky day!
« on: December 12, 2011, 08:19:25 AM »
When finding such things, always examine very carefully ?
Especially for fine hairline cracks.
It can be that what is left is what has been replaced, and not a new one at all...
Especially for fine hairline cracks.
It can be that what is left is what has been replaced, and not a new one at all...