This machine spent it's first 20 years as a 150 cc D3 road bike, which was written off in a crash in 1975/6 by a friend's older brother. Briefly passing through another older lad's hands before I bought it from him for £20, it was soon modified a little to become my first powered 2 wheeler, which I rode around some local fields, as well as our garden. a botched conversion to 175 cc resulted in it being a non runner but some other lads at school were convinced they could get it going and bought it from me, while I went off and bought my first Tiger Cub - also still with me.
Some years later, I bumped into one of the lads who bought the Bantam and he told me to go and take it if I wanted it back, otherwise it would be headed for the dump. The rest is history, as they say!
Негізгі бет BSA Bantam Major 1956 - a ride on the first bike I ever owned, bought in 1976!
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