Ted; I agree with you on the seat pin, but the shifter almost hasto be be Pre-war. I've never seen a post-war top tube mount shifter with this type of triangular shape. Maybe Mick or Norris will be able to clarify this for us. My guess is this is a late 1930s BSA. While at the Copake Auction in New York I purchased an unrestored 1937BSA with the Lutterwasser style bars, front dyno hub, etc which looks very similar to the one on Ebay. Unfortunately I had to leave it behind with freinds until I go back to Boston for Larz in August.
Peter Naiman Glendale, WI
ternst <ternst1@cox.net> wrote:
Don: I have a few if you would like to buy one for your mantle.
These posts were used from 1890's through the '30's, maybe into the '40's.
By the '50's they were almost obsolete except on some of the old hangover
bikes.
Don't remember any company using them that came to this country, but maybe
they were still used right after the war on some of the commuter bikes the
locals used in Europe , Asia, or Africa.
Can't tell from the foto how old the frame is, could be pre or post war.
The bar looks prewar more than post, The SA shifter was used probably into
the early '50s, maybe our Brit Boys can give us a closer date estimate.
But '67 seems most remote and young.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates, Ca
> Peter and Steve,
>
> What about that seat post? Were these typical in the
> thirties? I've never seen one that bends forward that
> way.
>
> Don Wilson
> Los Olivos, CA USA
>
> --- Peter Naiman wrote:
>
>> Steve; Going by the look of the trigger and what can
>> be seen of the equipment, it looks like a Pre-war
>> BSA.
>>
>> Peter Naiman
>> Glendale, WI
>>
>>
>> "Steven M. Johnson" wrote:
>> Here is an interesting article on SA shifters:
>>
> http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/
>>
>> Steven Johnson, Shiloh, IL
>>
>> From: Don Wilson
>> > This thing looks older than 1967 to me. Did they
>> > put triggers like this on bikes in 1967?
>>
> http://ebay.com/
>> =1#ebayphotohosting
>>
>>
>>
>>
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