The Beauty and the Beast.

Guess who's the beauty!

These are the rules for Racing your Bantam.

Bantams are raced as a subsection of the Vintage Motorcycle Club racing section currently there are about 20 racing, tracks raced at Mallory, Lydden, Cadwell, Snetterton, Darley Moor, Anglesey, pasted in below are last years rules some very minor wording changes have been made to these for 2002, they are still good enough to use to build one.

I have a tuning manual that I print to order so it has all current changes I am in the process of trying to make it web based.

125 Formula Bantam
1. CAPACITY: All machines will be of 125cc (+ oversize pistons to 2mm), maximum.
2. ENGINE: Modifications to engine or gearbox are allowed, provided that conditions (a) to (e) below are met: -
(a) Bantam crankcases must be used.
(b) Disc valve induction is prohibited.
(c) Pressurised fuel injection is prohibited.
(d) Only BSA close ratio and BSA normal ratios gears or exact copies
(e.g. AA Snell ) to be used. Maximum number of gears: Three.
(e) Only standard cylinder barrel to be used, but may be modified.
(Alloy Todd and BTW copies deemed to be standard but to remain external unchanged )

3. FRAME: Must retain Bantam main loop, but may be modified.
4. WHEELS: Must retain wire-spoked wheels.
5. FORKS: No restrictions
6. BRAKES: No restrictions
7. TANK: Must be mounted in normal position on machine.
8. FUEL: Petrol only.
ACU standing regulations for road racing machines apply (where applicable).


175 Bantam Formula
1. CAPACITY: All machines will be of 190cc capacity maximum
2. ENGINE: Modifications to engine or gearbox are allowed, provided that conditions (a) to (j) below are met: -
(a) Bantam crankcases must be used, and remain externally unchanged
(b) Disc valve induction is prohibited.
(c) Pressurised fuel injection is prohibited.
(d) Only BSA close ratio and BSA normal ratios gears or exact copies
(e.g. AA Snell ) to be used. Maximum number of gears: three if close ratio, and four if normal road ratios
(e) Only standard cylinder barrel to be used, but may be modified.
(Alloy Todd and BTW copies deemed to be standard but to remain external unchanged )
(f) Stroke to remain standard (58mm)
(g) Standard Bantam port layout is mandatory, i.e. one exhaust port, two transfers and one inlet
(h) Exhaust power valves prohibited.
(I) Water-cooling prohibited
(j) Ignition to be fixed timing. (i.e. not advancing or retarding type)
3. FRAME: Must retain Bantam main loop, but may be modified.
4. WHEELS: Must retain wire-spoked wheels.
5. FORKS: No restrictions
6. BRAKES: Front Brake: No restrictions Rear Brake: Must retain Bantam hub (may be modified)
7. ???
8. TANK: Must be mounted in normal position on machine.
9. FUEL: Petrol only.
10. CARBURETTOR: Size: 38mm maximum, circular bore only.
11. ACU standing regulations for road racing machines apply (where applicable).

Any "125" rider winning the Bantam Championship must change 'up' to a 175 engine thereafter.

Macaroni!

Found some weird things in the generator...

Granny's love bantam's to!

"I believe the story attached to this photo (I apologize for the poor contrast and non-motorcycle focus) is that my grandmother, who is now in her nineties, was late for church and hence caught a ride on the back of my dad's bike." Andrew H.

Books!

After reading mistgreen's booklist i found this beaty on e-bay. Soon more!

Bantam Lightweight power!

Found in a Harley Davidson factory pic collexion. Looks like all the heavy bike's are stuck but the bantam get's out! Left below the guy with BSA on his helmet.

John Hobbs Bantamerati

" Over the winter of 1965/66 the engine from the Bantam was removed and installed in the frame of a 50cc Maserati racing bike and he rode this machine on the road as well as in competition."
John Hobbs

Kiss? KISS!

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A much loved acronym in manufacturing and design
Keep It Simple Stupid
The BSA Bantam perhaps exemplifies the concept :)

Mike

Miss bantam? Err Miss BSA

Bantam Fever

YA1

Yamaha

Taking Pic's writing note's!

On the 6'th day. God checkt all the wire's what's right and wrong. And what's good and evil!
The god feeling!

Post man!

"And Then came the most easily recognised delivery motorcycle - The bsa Bantam" Realclassic.co.uk

Found a Easy Rider read of Mick who recalls his GPO bantam day's

Nice! Very nice! Found at Realclassic.co.uk

Another list of Ebay bike's for sale.
A - 1969 B175 Sports @ 895GBP - 985€ (make an offer!)
B - 1967 D7? Bantam @ 895GBP - 985€ (make an offer!)
C - 1967 Bantam D10 @ 127GBP - 139€

I like the sports! Coolest of the bantam's

Kids corner

Free Kids color painting bantam! Cleaned up a instruction manual lubrication pic (P 23).
I'm very happy today! Got some new toy's!
Sabrina & Bantam T-Shirt!Thank you Classic Motorcycle Spares Great Service! - Dave!

Sick Watercooled BSA Bantam! Found @ Rick_w Photostream
Would like to now how's the performance of it!

5 Aug 08 - Reminiscence of a lady Trails rider! (@ The Vintagent)
I like his story of motorcycling! Check it out!
"Jack then prepared a 125cc BSA Bantam for me, which I rode in open-to-centre trials most Sundays and a few Nationals when I could get a Saturday off from my job as a hospital laboratory technician" Looks like a bantam was a (the!?!) bike for everyone!

Vintage Airbox Speed Hole's

Looks like the previous owner has made some *kuch* Performance air hole's */kuch*.
To add some additional air in the carburator! Or he was just to lazy to clean / replace the airfilter.
Anyone a idea where to find these airfilters?

Racing!

I found a great read about the Clement Sorrel Daniels (link) Racing Bantam!.pdf (811 KB)!
I love the part of the magneto system "By mounting a BTH chain driven racing magneto at the front of the cylinder, to replace the normal flywheel magneto." ... "And runs at half engine speed. This allows the engine to rev to 0-10.000 rpm without mechanically exploding the magneto"

My bantam!. Missing Rear light, Badges, rust, wrong clutch handle, wasted seat, ...
Needs some love!

E-Bay watch.

From Bsa Bantam!

Looking at E-bay and other's to see if i got a good price.
In The UK: ! Current on bidding! They can go up!
A+ 1968 bantam @ 567GBP 623€
A 1970 bantam @ 510GBP 561€
B 1961 bantam @ 499GBP 549€
C 1969 bantam @ 450GBP 495€ Make an offer!

In Holland:
A+ 1965? Bantam @ 1500€ / 1363GBP

So It looks like i got a good price! Today i will post some photo's of my D14/4.

Who the hell?

Who ? Where? Why? No idea! But one cool looking dude!

Edit: "BSA Bantam D10 A Most unreliable but it made the 1000 mile round trip....Its a 1967 Bushman with a topbox and legshields - you can just see the original red paint showing thru. Cost me £95 sold it for £60 a year later! " En route to Devon 1977 BSA Bantam D10A

The Club!

Yesterday 15 Jan 09. Small Drive (50min). Picked up a BSA 1968 Bantam.
525€ / 477GBP. Some parts are missing but overall original bike!

Soon more!

1965 BSA Bantam D7

It's a MOVIE star in Under-Suspicion! (for some seconds).
Other bantams can be found in The Angry Silence and Haertbeat. Eat that 007 !

What is A BSA BANTAM?

"The BSA Bantam is a phenomenon, in numerical terms, it's the most successful Britisch bike ever build, and over 30 years after the last one left the production line, thousands are still on the road"
The BSA Bantam Bible

I think it's simply one of the best looking bike's out there!