STRIP DOWN HORRORS ON BSA BANTAM 

Sounds like he's reliving his youth with the same motorcycle with a different set of challenges!!. The B175 may have left the factory with the bracket but it probably vibrated off, mine has sheared off the rear mudguard subframe brackets and cracked the mudguard ( looking at many for sale this isn't uncommon ).

@@TweedsGarage Hi Sir. There were no holes drilled anywhere on the mudguard pressing, strangely.

The difference must have been like chalk and cheese, twin cylinder, ohc, electric start compared to a 2 stroke single cylinder tracing its roots to before the war .....now was it all the bike's fault or an over enthusiastic wanna be John Surtees 16 year old's throttle hand ?

Thanks for that Andrew, its nice to have some first hand experience of running these bikes back when they were everyday transport. 👍

Sounds like it really threw it's rattle right out of the pram😲

@@TweedsGarage Yep it sure did, fortunately I’d just bought a Triumph 650 TR6 so that became my daily ride and I sold the Bantam to a mate to repair for very little money. Still it was good while it lasted.

At £3/10s a week it was the closest you could get to flying 😁

@@TweedsGarage Yes, untill I got an Ariel Arrow. 250cc👍Went to watch John lee Hooker at the Bluesville Wigan on that 1964.

Glad to have bought back happy memories 😊 unfortunately you must of flogged it too hard as it doesn't appear on the DVLA records anymore 😔

Law of sod says that if there is an empty field with a pylon in it you will hit it 😂, i congratulate you on your young wheeler dealing antics to recover the situation, well played 👍

@@TweedsGarage The "track" we used to ride around went just past the pylon after a corner. I'd actually got the Bantam drifting with the back wheel out, when it caught grip, shot across the track and launched itself at the plylon, I was half off the bike when it hit and basically ended up with one leg each side of one of the lower triangulation trusses. It probably took 15 minutes before the pain subsided enough for me to speak. In the meantime my "mates" were berating me about the bent forks and how I'd have to pay my half for the damage. I think there were 5 or 6 of us who had put up equal amounts to buy it, the agreement was that anyone who bent it paid half, with the rest covering the other half. Not a bad arrangement to be honest for a group of 13 & 14 year old lads.

You are quite right Randy, for some reason i rather like the look of the clutch assembly it's quite geometrically pleasing to the eyes and its not your inner grumpy talking, modern engines have had all the character designed out of them, there is nothing more soul destroying than looking at new cars...keep well my friend and keeping giving that Mr Death a withering stare.

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Hopefully Dean, need to make a new stuffing plate then weld the bugger in .

@@TweedsGarage My D10 engine has had the plates welded. I haven't stripped it yet so I don't know how well it's been done. It's in a fairly poor state overall, torn out threads in the casings and quite a bit of restorative welding required. I'll get to it...Eventually! Dean.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 bloody hell I'm not that old...More of a Mr Wilks type character ( what was going on with that Mr Wilks/ Amos relationship ) . Mrs Blackman has got lines and must write " i mustn't be so cheeky " one hundred times.

I could rebuild it with new parts but a lot of the new parts tend to be made in India and just aren't up to standard of the original parts and being realistic even when rebuilt it probably won't do more than a few hundred miles a year so it'll be mechanically sound with good bearings and consumables like chains, cables etc and being a two stroke it is very difficult to resleeve so the longer you can avoid a rebore ( they can only be rebored twice and new cylinders aren't available) the better. So as the cylinder doesn't have a ridge at the top, like the good old days it'll have a light hone and new rings to freshen it up.) Good luck with the Hemi, it sounds like a fun truck 🙂

Thanks Paul, glad you enjoyed it 👍

My pleasure Peter

Oh i do love an army surplus store Mr B, unfortunately not many about anymore, glad you get Mrs Tweed's Elizabeth Mainwaring appearances. Those blister packs are lethal so take care Sir.

Lashings of ginger beer after 😁

Crumbs! How simply splendid

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I think the battle scars are called character, there's a few famous race cars still going with blanking plates on the block covering holes where an excited con rod exited at some time in their history.

Jackanory's got nothing on me mate 😄

Thanks Martin

That is a common problem with Amals, rubbing the mating face on a sheet of glass with grinding paste was the old school way of getting them flat again ( the Bantam has a o ring to help.....but thats missing 🙄

Cheers 👍

You sum it up perfectly Chris 👍🙂

😂......really?!!.....slinks off to search Mrs Cucumberpatch on Google 😉

@@TweedsGarage Did you find her? The Avengers, Carry On, UFO, Dr Who, she was in a lot of interesting things back in the day. If you knew about it it was very amusing in Sherlock when his parents were played by his actual parents.

@asciimation ah yes, being a fan of UFO in my youth and a can fully understand your fellings......and Mrs Tweed told me about her and his father appearing in Sherlock

"Not looking at all bad for its age." I don't know, the ends of that moustache are starting to get ridiculous!

😂....its reaching peak length, don't worry spring moulting season isn't far away 😉

No it's surprising just a very clean non butchered thread

A distant nephew ........

Hi Phil, yes it'll run fine on E5, i tend to stick to Super Unleaded for all my older vehicles to reduce the effects of ethenol ( most premium brands tend to have less than 5% if any ethenol in their Super brands as the regulations states they have to have up to 5%) .