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as some of you may know, I've got an old BSA M20 (circa 1940) tucked away in the workshop needing a fair bit of work. I'm hoping to strike a blow on this over the winter months.

Now, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to bikes so need a resource where I don't need to weed out the genuine info and fact from the crap, a little like TM to be honest. Does anyone know of any good forums to look out for or alternatively bad ones to steer clear of?

cheers

Rob

Oof if you weren't so far away I've got a good friend that knows pretty much everything about the old bikes :)
Any questions feel free to post up and see if we can help
How much of a project is it?
Get some pics up :)

Reading up on RTS Clutches

quick google search turned up this:
http://www.wdbsa.nl

get some pics up Rob!

Take lots of pictures on the strip down and label everything up, is pretty much the best advice i was given.

http://www.draganfly.co.uk
is a good place for spares

buy a manual from Ebay, get the paper version rather than CD and have a good read before the strip down.

should be some photos somewhere on heare i think. will get some up when i'm back at the pc.

Appreciate the offer. Frustrating bit being it sat for 20yrs at my folks in essex so would have been a little closer!

Cheers Adam. Already got the manual. Websites are good but still looking for somewhere with a bit of forum knowledge

I'm about an hour away from Essex so getting closer

Reading up on RTS Clutches

Hi Rob, just got your PM, I had a look ages ago and to be honest I could not find a forum for bsa's that was anything like this. I have found a fair bit out through just searching on google which has picked out various bits from various forums. The other thing is mine is a 50/60's bike, yours is a 30/40's machine in broad tech terms and it seems some models develop more of a following than others. The general bsa owners club may be a place to start, I will be contacting them as they offer a service to provide reports for the dvla in order that you can get your original reg numbers back but not for a bit. It seems to me they are a more traditional club with newsletters and a phone number for each person in the club whom is an expert in that model.

Edited by oli79 on 2nd Sep, 2013.

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

Cheers Oli

I have been using Kidderminster motorcycles who are a bsa specialist

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

Just been on the bsa owners club site and found this

http://www.bsaownersclub.co.uk/tech_consultants.html

I really must join, only reason I haven't really bothered was:

I have the full bsa manual and another good shop manual.

I have been going to the bike autojumble near me at rufforth just about every month for that last 4 years which is great for picking info up,been a few times to the same at Newark too.

Its not really a sought after model so there is unlikely to be much of a support network anyhow, and lots of bsa's/triumphs around the era of my bike are made from the same bits. And after all its such a simple machine even a ham handed mongtard like me can do a passable job of rebuilding it.

Edited by oli79 on 2nd Sep, 2013.

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

I think Robert is a motorcycle guy, might be worth asking him?

Almost forgot before we had the mini forums our reference was of course the mini mags, so a classic bike mag may be a handy thing. I bought a few quids worth of old ones from said autojumble as the info is still all relevant.

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

Some free manuals for all you two wheeled homos:

http://www.carlsalter.com/motorcycle-manuals.asp

Includes the BSA M20.

Cheers andy, i actually stumbled upon this site earlier this evening.