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Changes were also made to the engine to increase its compression ratio to 7.

The Bantam is easy to work on, most parts are able to be simply replaced by the lay-man, requiring little specialist skill save for wheel building and cylinder boring.

However, until that time comes, I cannot and will not.

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They start off a restoration project basking in the rosy glow of long ago, when any motorised cycle seemed miraculous, but complete their work to find that rose-tinted memories totally fail to keep them out of the path of white van drivers on a tight schedule.

' I seem to be labouring this point rather like a Bantam trying to get up a long hill but what a difference it would have made if BSA had provided a four-speed gearbox in 1948, instead of waiting another 18 years! Bike is missing : Footpegs, rear brake lever, tool box,and maybe coil.

Count us among the fans.

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In addition, the front suspension was made more substantial through the use of larger diameter stanchions and the cylinder was not simply bored out but was enlarged with distinctive larger thermal cooling fins.