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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: nickjaxe Date: June 17, 2015, 1:20 pm
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A very neat looking machine...not sure what your wearing
though????
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: Snailer Date: June 17, 2015, 1:57 pm
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It is more than that, I remember going for a haircut, it you go
too short then I will accept showing my ear lobes. ;D
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: strang Date: June 21, 2015, 3:45 pm
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I used to have a Bantam 'field bike' when I was a kid - nearly
killed myself a few times too. I have never had a road bike
though or licence to ride one - one day maybe......
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: GlenAnderson Date: June 22, 2015, 8:40 pm
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I've a D1 Bantam. I've owned it since early 1978. It had one
owner before me, a lady who bought it new and used it as her
sole transport.
HTML http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt313/glenanderson/IMG_0762.jpg
I had a D7 engine in it for a while, which made it quite
useable. It would cruise at 50 and do about 60 flat out. It is
currently wearing it's original engine as the D7 one went into a
D5 that i had for a bit, then sold on. As John says, the D1 has
little more go than a modern 50, and is a bit of a liability in
modern traffic. I did build a tuned D1 engine a few years ago,
following a set of period tuning notes, opening up oilways,
match-porting the transfer ports and opening everything out
considerably, along with skimming the head. The results were
disappointing, the engine pulled well, but was so peaky it
couldn't overcome the huge gap between second and top. With a
tailwind or downhill it was OK and would top 60, but as soon as
it dropped below 40 it was as flat as a pancake and you had to
drop down into second and scream along at 30-ish. I experimented
with different gear sets, but decided I preferred it as
standard. The current engine benefits from a modern
ignition/charging system and 12v lighting. The only tuning mod
that it has is a skimmed head as that makes a big difference.
I've got a D14/4 engine in bits in the shed that I bought whilst
I was still an apprentice (so at least 26 years ago). One day
I'll get around to putting it together and fitting it into the
D1. That should make it quite a flyer without losing it's
rideability.
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: nickjaxe Date: June 24, 2015, 1:13 pm
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Thats a very nice old machine Glen...what year is it.
The D1s do look the dogs whatsits....is that what they call a
plunger model.
Got my CBT booked for a week Sat...got to then get the rest of
the course done...looking forward to trying it out properly.
Nick.
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: GlenAnderson Date: June 24, 2015, 1:18 pm
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It's a 1953 Nick, a rigid model. The "plunger" ones had a crude
sliding sprung rear end - a little more comfort at the expense
of a great deal more weight and a load of extra components to
wear out and make the handling "interesting"...
Mine is currently wearing a slightly later set of forks; fitted
as a temporary measure about twenty years ago... I would dearly
like to get it looking properly tidy again, but it would cost a
small fortune to do the job properly. The miss-matched paint was
part of an ill-advised teenage tidy up prior to falling off it.
I really wish I'd left it as it was. This is me on it circa
1980/81:
HTML http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt313/glenanderson/DurbanWestAfrica28thMarch1943.jpg
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: nickjaxe Date: June 26, 2015, 2:09 pm
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What a cracking picture Glen.
So when were the plunger model made from and to????
Mine is the later B175 with the Triumph forks..just fitted a
solid state reg/rectifier I want to keep that sort of thing to a
minimum.
Just bought my first helmet today...an open face type...god my
head looks big in it...I'm XL.
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: Peter de Dawg Date: June 29, 2015, 12:58 pm
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Those pics take me back..
When I was at school we used to get various old Beezers ( and
numerous odd Villiers engined things) for free or a couple of
quid whatever, I swapped a load of Action Man stuff for a great
old bike called an 'Ambassador' some 50s thing presumably, wish
I'd kept that one, not to mention the Triumph Tiger Cub...!
#Post#: 99013--------------------------------------------------
Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: w3526602 Date: September 24, 2015, 1:16 am
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Hi,
Back in the 1960s I had a 1936 Douglas (wish I had it now).
600cc flat twin, arranged fore & aft, outside flywheel that
gouged a groove in my shoe, and hand gear change. Girder forks
and solid rear end. On a frosty morning, it could be started by
... turn on petrol tap, retard ignition, pull choke, lean over
the saddle and push the kick-start BY HAND. It would tick over
at about 17 revs per fortnight. Bought it for £2, sold it for
£2/10/0d, bought it back for £2, sold it for £3 ... and never
saw it again. sob!
During my RAF posting to RAAF Butterworth, we lived on Penang
Island. I only had a provisional licence for a bike, but the
Malays did not have a separate moped group, so they had to give
me a full bike licence. I bought something called a Pointer 185,
and rode that for two years. Only fell off once, but quite
spectacular... I stopped at junction, nothing coming so moved
off. Back wheel slid away, so I stepped off, but didn't let go
of the twist grip. Bike pulled me over the saddle, causing me to
fall with feet one side, and head the other ... and yanked the
throttle open. Bike reared up, and shot off down the road, with
me still draped over the saddle. I closed the throttle, front
wheel dropped, thud, causing me to yank the throttle again. Bike
reared up .... I actually fell off about 100 yards from where I
started. You could always recognise a biker by the purple dye
sprayed on his grazes (we all wore shorts out there). Dye was
called Honda Rash Out of a population of about 2000 Brits and
Ausies, 18 were killed in bike accidents, in the two years I was
there. That included one Ausie who drowned in a monsoon ditch
with his bike on top of him.
Enjoy your bike (noisy smelly things) but take care. SWMBO will
not let me have one.
602
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Re: Must be an age Thing.
By: nickjaxe Date: September 29, 2015, 2:03 pm
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Thats one of the reason I wanted a Bantam...told my wife they
dont go much faster than a pushbike.
Just getting to the end of the major hurdle of getting my full
bike licence...what a total faf to ride a Bantam...not something
I really wanted to do at the age of 62...must be over 40 year
since I last read the hi-way code prior to sitting my therory
tests...passed with good marks.
The 650 I am riding during my lessons leaves me cold...no
character at all in modern bikes.
Just hope I enjoy riding the Bantam when I finily get my
licence...only had a little dabble in my street upto now.
Nick.
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