BSA Paratrooper

[Purzell]

Fresh find Saturday:

Picked up this neat BSA Paratrooper today. From what I’m seeing online it’s pretty original. It even smells like old military gear.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Fresh find Saturday:

View attachment 205336Picked up this neat BSA Paratrooper today. From what I’m seeing online it’s pretty original. It even smells like old military gear.

That's a great score

 

[Purzell]

These brakes are so cool

 

[MattiThundrrr]

@ingola you seeing this one?

That's a super cool bike

 

[ingola]

@ingola you seeing this one?

That's a super cool bike

Sure did

 

[ingola]

Pashley made a tribute

3500 bucks landed

 

[Purzell]

The thing that surprised me most about this bike is how small and light it is. It doesn't help that I stood it next to my fourteen year old's 23" tall Rockhopper.

 

[ingola]

BSA kept the frame till the 50s issued a non folding version and sold them as kids bikes

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

Someday, I will own one of those.

 

[bleedingfingers]

Careful that smell could be mustard gas
Good score

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Careful that smell could be mustard gas
Good score

There was a factory in town in the 40s making mustard gas. The only people it was used on were Canadian troops in training. The land is still completely unusable.

 

[RustyGold]

There is a NOS non-folder that has been on eBay for ~couple years. I've made offers on it twice...we've been close, but not close enough.

 

[RustyGold]

What an original would look like (these are civilian models)...

Original or restored folders (military) tend to go in the $1800-2800 range.

 

[Purzell]

That’s really cool. What would you do with it? Build it? It’s hard to imagine unwrapping that original paper.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

That’s really cool. What would you do with it? Build it? It’s hard to imagine unwrapping that original paper.

I couldn't, that's for sure. To me, that auto supply label is gold. How the heck does that survive?

 

[RustyGold]

The tag would be saved...the paper trashed...and the frame?

...wait for it...

Klunker'd! We'll...at least urban klunk'd, I don't think it will take very meaty tires.

It's a bike, dudes...it's made to be ridden!

(or just finish it off with Raleigh, or BSA, 3spd roadster parts...that is basically how the civilian version was equipped)

 

[RustyGold]

The BMX version...

...this 'unrelated' obscure piece of BMX history (Phazer BMX) is why I fell for the BSA bike so hard, the BSA looks like the grownup version of one of these .

 

[bleedingfingers]

They remind me of my Van Dessel ...

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

Looking forward to getting my grubbies on this bike, thanks @Purzell !!! Also thanks to my brothers, one helping with the pickup and the other delivering it on his trip out here next month.

https://www.campfirecycling.com/blo...ets-give-me-my-bike-the-bikes-of-world-war-ii
I'm not going to get a Lee-Enfield to go with it, but might conbsider a Sten.

 

[RustyGold]

Congrats! One bike...two great scores!