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dimlaz

posted on 21/9/17 at 01:30 PM Reply With Quote
Identify bike

Hello
Can anyone help me to identify this bike?


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Minicooper

posted on 21/9/17 at 01:40 PM Reply With Quote
It's an early BSA Bantam

David

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theconrodkid

posted on 21/9/17 at 02:16 PM Reply With Quote
I would say something like a James ?, looks like a villiers engine to me and BSA used their own engine.





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jiwillia

posted on 21/9/17 at 02:19 PM Reply With Quote
DKW RT175 or RT200 mid 1950's
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Minicooper

posted on 21/9/17 at 02:40 PM Reply With Quote
I was so confident as well!


quote:
Originally posted by Minicooper
It's an early BSA Bantam

David

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jiwillia

posted on 21/9/17 at 03:03 PM Reply With Quote
I think the BSA Bantam was derived from a DKW engine after WW2. So in a way you could say it's an early Bantam!
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02GF74

posted on 21/9/17 at 04:50 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by jiwillia
I think the BSA Bantam was derived from a DKW engine after WW2. So in a way you could say it's an early Bantam!


Yes, as part of German's post war reparations BSA got access to 2 stroke technology.






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Shooter63

posted on 21/9/17 at 05:32 PM Reply With Quote
I would go with the dkw, the gear shift is on the wrong side for a brit bike.

Shooter

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dimlaz

posted on 21/9/17 at 06:43 PM Reply With Quote
Thank you for all the answers!
it looks like BSA but i m confused from the emblem on the engine.

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mark chandler

posted on 21/9/17 at 07:20 PM Reply With Quote
D7 bantam I had as a lad had the gears on the other side.
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JMW

posted on 21/9/17 at 10:43 PM Reply With Quote
I believe the bantam was a mirror image of the dkw design taken as a war reparation, hence the levers seeming on the 'wrong' side.
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