The BSA Bantam Bible: All Model 1947-1971
The definitive guide to specification and originality
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| Vazba: | Vázaná | ||
| Počet stran: | 160 | ||
| Rozměry v mm: | 210 x 250 | ||
| Počet obrázků: | 250 | ||
| Rok vydání: | 2016 | ||
• Year-by-year, change-by-change evolution details
• A complete history of the Bantam
• How it came about – postwar reparations from Germany
• Bantam cousins – Harley and Russian ‘Bantams’
• Success! – the early years
• Growing up – the 148cc and 175cc Bantams
• Tragedy – lack of development leads to decline
• What might have been – could the Bantam have survived?
• Useful contacts
• THE complete history
The BSA Bantam Bible covers the year-by-year evolution of the BSA Bantam, a simple commuter bike that thousands learnt to ride on. It became the standard GPO ‘telegram bike’ in the 1950s and was a huge success, with 100,000 built in the first four years of production.
The BSA Bantam is one of the definitive postwar British bikes, perhaps THE definitive British lightweight built after World War II. It was certainly the most popular, with over 400,000 built over a 23-year production run – in the first four years, production broke all records. Yet it would die a lingering death, production fizzling out in the early 1970s as a neglected model of a manufacturer more concerned with building big, fast road-burning bikes. The Bantam might never have happened without World War II. The prewar DKW RT125 was offered to the Allies as reparations, taken up and produced in the USA, USSR, even Japan! In East Germany it was revived as the MZ, and in Britain it surfaced publicly in 1948 as the BSA Bantam, a very simple little 123cc two-stroke, with rudimentary electrics, no rear suspension and a lot of charm.
The little bike became part of Britain’s social history. Thousands of people learnt to ride on a Bantam, or had their first pillion experience on one, or rode one delivering telegrams for what was the GPO. Although many of those learners progressed to bigger, faster bikes, then gave up two wheels for family life, they won’t have forgotten the Bantam, which explains why there’s such a thriving Bantam community to this day – the club, the racing club, the spares specialists, and restorers, owners and riders all over the country. This might not be Britain’s most glamorous motorcycle, its fastest or most flamboyant, but the Bantam is probably the most loved.
Covers the D1, D1 Competition, D1 Deluxe, D3 Bantam Major, D5 Super, D7 Super, D7 Deluxe, D7 Bantam, Silver, D10 Supreme, D10 Silver, D10 Sports, D10 Bushman, D14/4 Supreme, D14/4 Sports, D14/4 Bushman, B175, B175, Bushman.
BSA Bantam is the most numerous and popular small classic British bike on the market.
There are some Bantam history books, but none that include a practical guide to buying secondhand.
A complete history of the Bantam, with buying advice and 250 photos.
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