Now thats a picture

You would want to be a bit mad to be up for that project

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Jo'b

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What do you mean, John ? "90% Complete, all the hard to find bits are there and was running well when parked...Original Bomb disposal red mudguards...."

I do actually feel a bit sorry for the owner. He left it running on the rear stand when he popped in the shop for twenty Woodbine !

'I decided to use my new laser printer to create an M20'.. ...Ian

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

That is a gem. Bonhams sold a 1926 Norton in 2013 that looked like it had been dug up, it reminded me of a fossil, no paint anywhere holes everywhere rims dissolved. Eighteen months later its back on the road having been restored, what percentage of the original could have been used?

Cheers Pat

There are some nice early parts there though. That's an early frame too (rear part at least). Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Pat,I saw that one at Bonhams. I would not have used hardly anything from it. The frame and forks looked in a real bad way too far corroded for any future use. I saw the pic of the restored bike in the VMCC mag, Next year it will be going through Bonhams for 20K and 20% of it will be frame and fork filler.
I once cut up a badly corroded set of forks to use some cast lugs, the corrosion was just as bad on the inside of the tubes as the outside. Buyers beware

Tim W

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How can you tell its an early rear section frame Ron

Side stand mounting point ?

Jo'b

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Probably because is has no rear footrests.

Yes John. No footrest lugs and the early field stand lug. There is also something different about the rear tank and saddle mount being combined on the early frames. Maybe Henk can remind me?
My own M20 is from that early period. I think pillion pegs were standard by 1941. Until then BSA made a kit to upgrade a bike for pillion seat. Ron

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The early front frames have a one piece tank and saddle mount while the later have two separate mounts. The separate tank mount is a forged piece soldered to the frame while the early unit is all sheet metal.

The frame in the photo also has an early front frame with that one piece tank saddle mount.

Henk

email (option): ahum@quicknet.nl

Hi

Another 'rust' restoration has appeared on ebay overnight - see 201152919601. There's a lot of work with this one and the price is £2300..

Andy

email (option): a.tizzard@btopenworld.com

Make no mistake about it...another pile of junk from the middle east... ...He'd never see my £2300 quid for it...

A friend of mine recently bought a complete (for restoration) 1948 rigid B33 for £2500 and it is in much better condition than that wreck...Ian

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id have the forum bike restored in no time
as for the socal 1941 ebay m20 (with rear frame side car holes??), that chap had a few of em listed a while ago, i dont know if he ever sold any.

barry

email (option): mrsbfuller@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks for the info Ron& Henk, I'll quiz you at netley in a couple of weeks

I didn't expect to see the bike on here, but this is my latest project

I'm sure there will be times when I expect the "it's madness moments" but am looking forward to getting another BEF era bike on the go again

Jo'b

email (option): Jonnyob1@googlemail.com

Go for it John. As the basis for a first project, it'd be hard work but for someone with a collection of donor parts and the right connections, it's quite do-able.

Will you be in Dunkirk for May next year ?

Some restorations are like George Washington't original ax. It has had the head replaced once and the handle twice

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Here is a picture Henk sent me as a reminder about the tank lug differences. Although Why Photobucket has reproduced it upside down, I don't know?
The red one is the early type.

As it happens, the 1940 WD C10 that I'm restoring at the moment has this same combined tank/saddle lug. Ron

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Hi Jon,
Nice tank
Dave

email (option): jeepfinger@blueyonder.co.uk

Have a truck load of ready mix on order for the rank Dave

:-D

Am on the trail of a less worn tank, thanks to a forum member

Hopefully see it soon

:-)

Job

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Hi John, Begins to look like a bike! Much respect, your lucky to live close to Kempton.

See you at Netley and have a look for another pair of front engineplates as these won't fit

Regards, Michiel

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Hi michiel

You mean the set i have are not rigid type ?

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I bought them as rigid front plates from a forum member, i hadnt even thought of checking them - i didnt think i needed to

Oh dear - back to the drawing board

Thanks for more good advice michiel

Lets have a beer at netley

Best regards

John

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