Looks like the lady is more impressed by the bantam ! link
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woensdag 25 januari 2012
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Progressiveclassicproducts.co.uk
This enterprise is still really only a glorified hobby; we need to
make something for our bikes and so find we can often produce extra
items at comparatively low cost. With this in mind please bear with us
when ordering parts, we hope to maintain a close dialogue with all
customers in respect of delivery times and design advice.
To keep prices down and enable the builder to customize parts to suit their own bike we are willing to supply some products at various stages of production.
To build the bikes we have made many contacts within the manufacturing and wholesale companies in the industry enabling us to price a great range of products at a competitive rate.
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The aims behind the products we design and supply are to:- Recreate a machine that would look in keeping back in the sixties
- Improve the performance characteristics over standard period parts
- Help our customers build handsome, competetive machines
- Strike a happy medium between high quality products and the cost of production
- Provide innovative answers to problems associated with building your unique motorcycle.
To keep prices down and enable the builder to customize parts to suit their own bike we are willing to supply some products at various stages of production.
To build the bikes we have made many contacts within the manufacturing and wholesale companies in the industry enabling us to price a great range of products at a competitive rate.
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IFA RT125 1953
Thought you may find this brochure interesting it for a 1953 IFA RT 125,
IFA were what would become later MZ and the same company pre-war were
DKW as I understand which made the original Bantam design.
Thanks again Cornish Rooster!
dinsdag 25 oktober 2011
woensdag 21 september 2011
Easy Wheeling Harley-Davidson Hummer!
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dinsdag 20 september 2011
Brenda Collins
Ca. 1952 Brenda Collins (England, Kent)
North-America. The journalist Brenda rode a 16.000 kms long tour through North-America with a BSA-Bantam.
Route: GB - USA - Canada - Mexico.
25th.04.2001 1st information by Hugo Wilson´s book: Das Lexikon vom Motorrad, page 37.
25.04.2001 I do not know more details. Who knows more, her earlier/present address or publications about her??
08.12.2003 Not to find in internet.
North-America. The journalist Brenda rode a 16.000 kms long tour through North-America with a BSA-Bantam.
Route: GB - USA - Canada - Mexico.
25th.04.2001 1st information by Hugo Wilson´s book: Das Lexikon vom Motorrad, page 37.
25.04.2001 I do not know more details. Who knows more, her earlier/present address or publications about her??
08.12.2003 Not to find in internet.
Brenda Collins was a 25-year old journalist from England, and between
1953 and 1954 she rode a 125cc B.S.A. Bantam D1 motorcycle more than
10,000 miles around North America.
The young traveler had no previous motorcycle experience before
taking delivery of her Bantam from Arlington Cycle & Sports Ltd.,
B.S.A. distributors in Montreal, Canada.
Quoted from the brochure, “…Collins, a young journalist from Kent,
with a taste for adventure, was working in Montreal, and felt she would
like to see more of Canada and the United States – as economically as
possible! At a motor-cycle show she saw a B.S.A. 125 c.c. ‘Bantam’ and
immediately decided that this was the ideal method of transport for her
trip across the wide open spaces – but for one snag – she couldn’t ride.
“However, learning to ride a ‘Bantam’ is so easy and Brenda soon mastered it…”
Collins’ Bantam, one of two models available in 1953, was the 125cc
Two-Stroke Model D1 with a plunger spring frame. There was also a D1
with a rigid frame.
The machine was based on the same German DKW RT125 design from the
‘30s that was the starting point for Harley-Davidson’s late-‘40s S125,
later known as the Hummer. Both companies, along with Russia’s MMZ, were
given rights to produce the little two-stroke design as part of war
reparations following World War II.
B.S.A.’s Bantam had a 123cc single-cylinder motor with a three-speed,
unit construction gearbox. The fuel tank carried 13/4 gallons of
gasoline and oil mix, brakes were 5” in diameter, and the Bantam had a
dry weight of 183 pounds.
Leaving Montreal in August 1953, equipped with 100 lbs. of gear,
including a portable typewriter, Collins headed west across Canada. She
toured through Winnipeg, Manitoba; Regina, Saskatchewan; Calgary and
Banff, Alberta; before crossing the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver,
British Columbia. From Canada’s west coast, she rode down to San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego before traveling east to Tucson,
Arizona; Houston; New Orleans and Jacksonville, Florida. Northward she
stopped in Savannah, Georgia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Washington, DC;
and New York, where she arrived in April 1954.
Says the brochure, “En route through Canada she took temporary jobs
to supplement her $2 a day budget, wrote up her experiences for several
magazines and papers and appeared on various radio programmes.
“In a test that would punish many a bigger motor-cycle the ‘Bantam’
gave her reliable and economical service under all the varied conditions
she encountered on her trip.”
Collins’ actual saddle time on the Bantam was 90 days, and her
average speed was 35 to 40 miles per hour. But that modest pace was
enough to add up to more than 10,000 miles by the time she was through.
It’s proof that, as the brochure says, “You, too, can ‘Leave it to your B.S.A.’”
donderdag 18 augustus 2011
Bantam in india
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