Joe’s D1 175 out and about and hauling ass in Norfolk
Joe’s BSA Bantam D1
I did this Bantam for Joe almost three years ago. He’d had the bike for years and decided he wanted to make it into some thing a bit more 21st century. So indicators, LED lights, and electronic ignition.
He’d fitted a 175cc motor that he’d bought off a bloke who claimed it was pukka.
It was anything but: knackered crankcases, Cornflake packet gaskets, oil leaks.
Long story short: he rebuilt it. But life being what it is, the whole thing took bit longer than planned.
Joe sent this pic showing that his hand-painted, plunger-suspended apocalypse bike is now trundling around North Norfolk, doing the shopping and fitting right in with the local fancy architecture.
A very shagged-out crankcase, with lots of silicone rubber, used in the hope of making it seal. Just one of the discoveries Joe made when he stripped the ‘freshly built’ motor
This thing is around 70 years old. And it’s still operational
