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zondag 6 november 2011

Slippery Bantam clutch?!

"Clutch plate dismanteling & inspection"

Take off the clutch cover plate, retained by three small screws with spring washers. Now, using service tool No. 61-319 compress the clutch springs to allow the large plate retaining circlip to be removed.

  Remove the tool, and lift off, and lift off the retaining plate complete with springs and cups. The pressure plate, and friction plates can now be taken out for inspection. Take care not to loose the mushroom headed push rods which fits in the end of the mainshaft. 
If the clutch plates or springs are the only items requiring attention the clutch not be dismantled any further.

New clutch springs hae a free length of 1-9/64" (29 mm) and if this length has reduced by more than 1/32" (0,8 mm) it is recommended that a new set be fitted
27 mm instead off 29mm
The four driving plates have segments of a special friction material securely bonded to the metal.

All these segments should be complete and unbroken. Even if there appears to be no damage to the plates or segments, the overall thickness of each segment should be measured. The thickness of a new driving plate is 1/8" (3,2mm) and if the wear is excessive the plates should be renewed.


3 mm instead of 3,2
The tags on the outer edges of the plates should be a reasonable fit in the housing slots. If there are any burrs on the tags, renew the complete plate.

The three driven plates should be free from score marks, and must be perfectly flat. To check the latter lay the plate on a piece of plate-glass, if it can be rocked it is obviously buckled and must be replaced with a new one.






Bantam Checkup 2011 (part 1)

Ignition looks just fine! +1000 miles without any trouble!

This explains the low compression! One of the cilinder studs has a bad thread. So the head gasked started to leak!

When i rebuild the engine in 2009 the piston looked allright. Looks like i gonne buy a new piston kid...

With some honing the cilinder is allright!

Now is the time to check the clutch & First gear...

Workbench!

zaterdag 5 november 2011

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!



vrijdag 4 november 2011

Bronco Bullfrog

No helmet! No Fear!

donderdag 3 november 2011

Speedybantams mapcheck

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Nice!
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And yes the bantam made it home again! :-)
Way to go! Congratz with the new bike!
Check out the (fancy) Christopher Schulstad blog.

dinsdag 1 november 2011

maandag 31 oktober 2011

zaterdag 29 oktober 2011

vrijdag 28 oktober 2011

The bantam Girl of the month!

donderdag 27 oktober 2011

'Silent' short film from 1970 - precursor to Two Ronnies 'The Picnic' & 'By the Sea'. Similar in style to Benny Hill. This is edited to show just the cheeky bits.

Note to myself: The bantam rider get's the girls!

woensdag 26 oktober 2011

Rear shocks

Ready for finish varnish!

dinsdag 25 oktober 2011

The BSA Bantam 175cc worth of real bike



Some nice ad's posted by Cornish Rooster

maandag 24 oktober 2011

Modern classic trials

 Some pic's of a new bike with a classic D14 bantam engine.
Paul Munslow's Bsa bantam

zondag 23 oktober 2011

little dirtbike

BSA Bushman

zaterdag 22 oktober 2011

A very neat ex gpo bike!

vrijdag 21 oktober 2011

GPO

BSA Bantam
Nice GPO (and i love the rack!!!)

BSA Bantam

donderdag 20 oktober 2011

bantam

woensdag 19 oktober 2011

C15

A very nice video of the 4 stroke bantam! (C15 :-) )

maandag 17 oktober 2011

Bantam D1

zondag 16 oktober 2011

The magic trip!

Looks like i'm heading off to the cinema!

zaterdag 15 oktober 2011

woensdag 12 oktober 2011

Bantam Restore Clips!

Thanks for this great vid!

dinsdag 11 oktober 2011

Holidays 1953

Some very very very nice roadtrip in 1953.
Warning: looking at the pictues will motivate you to travel with the bantam!

maandag 10 oktober 2011

Working on the bantam...

Autumn Service!
After a the summer time it's time to check the bike.
Bolt on some new parts & Finally fix that
jumping out of first gear
1st. Clean things up!
the broken sand blasting pot... grmblg!!!!!!
One rear demper done...
Right side of the rack done...


Hell Yeah!

zondag 9 oktober 2011

Why do i post this? Annoying tv!

zaterdag 8 oktober 2011

Beware of the Flowers Photostream!


Highlow Hall

Howden Dam

Very nice's bantam pic's from the Photostream from "Beware of the Flowers"!

Thanks!

vrijdag 7 oktober 2011

DKW Copy

I found this little motorcycle in the Motola motor museum in sweden.

The engine looks like the DKW unit!

But it's a NV motorcycle...

1951... Just after the war.
Wikipedia: Nymanbolagen (aka Nymans AB or just Nymans) was a Swedish bicycle, moped, and motorcycle manufacturing company in Uppsala, Sweden.

In 1947 Nymans Verkstäder in Uppsala, Lindblads Verkstäder (Amerikansk Cycleimport) in Stockholm and some minor bicycle companies, formed Nymanbolagen AB, situated in Uppsala, Sweden.

Nymans also manufactured small two cycle outboard boat engines.

In 1961 Nymanbolagen merged with the bicycle company Monark AB in Varberg, Sweden into Monark-Crescentbolagen or MCB. Later all production took place in Varberg.

The factory in Varberg is now owned by Grimaldi Industri AB via its bicycle company Cycleurope, also producing Bianchi, Gitane, Puch and some other brands.

donderdag 6 oktober 2011

The McPhee Bantams

When, early in 1956 Jim McPhee rebuilt a rigid-frame BSA Bantam for use in his Fremantle shop neither he nor anyone else had any idea that a partnership had been formed which was to change the entire history of 125cc motorcycle racing in WA and make the name McPhee Bantam a by-word throughout the sport.

woensdag 5 oktober 2011

DIY How to make custom length control cables.

Grabbed a small block of 1/2" scrap steel and drilled a 19/64 hole all the way through it. Clamped that on top of another piece of scrap steel
I then took an old junk cable I had lying around and began heating the end of the cable with the 'nub' on it (don't know what the official name is for them) Once it got hot enough I was able to to 'drip/drag' it into the 19/64 dia hole. I did that with a total of 3 cable ends. Then I patiently heated the small block of steel around the hole with the melted solder in it. Once it was sure it was completely melted (I stirred it with a small nail held by pliers) I inserted my trimmed cable into the mix I heated the cable a little before and after inserting it so the solder would get good penetration around the steel strands of the cable.
I held it there for 2-3 minutes while it solidified, then I ran cool water over the whole thing. Then I unclamped the small block and took it to my vise to drive the part out of the block.
I ended up using a bolt that was just the right diameter to drive it out.
And here it is...looks as good as the real thing!
Soon i'll try this out...

dinsdag 4 oktober 2011

Bob

Little bob(ber) they call it.

maandag 3 oktober 2011

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