1910s BSA Gents Roadster Model 3D
28″ Frame
28″ Wheels
BSA 3 speed gear
Dunlop saddle
(Extra BSA grips included in the sale price)
(Now sold)
This is a BSA Gent’s Roadster Model 3D (the ‘D’ suffix denotes a freewheel with two ‘rolling lever brakes plus BSA 3-speed gear. featuring nickel handlebars, fork crowns and wheel rims, and priced at £8 15/-.
BSA’s are not easy to date accurately. This could be 1910s though it could be 1920s. It has an old time repaint and later handlebar grips have been added – I’ll include a pair of BSA grips on sale. It has a tall frame, as supplied both to the Police as the Constabulary Bicycle and the army with or without military fittings. As you can see from the photos, I added military fittings when I used it to illustrate how cycle companies supplied their roadsters to military models. Obviously there are very few surviving genuine military model bicycles from the Great War (and I am very skeptical of any such claims made without proof), so if you want a WW1 bicycle – and you are tall enough to ride it, adding military fittings to this one would be a good budget option.
1914 BSA CATALOGUE EXTRACTS
BSA TERRITORIAL
BSA bicycles were supplied worldwide before and during the Great War and the company was the world’s leading supplier of military bicycles. They supplied bicycles for the War both with and without military fittings. When war was declared in August, 1914, cycle companies converted their roadster bicycles into military bicycles. I converted this BSA in the same way.
A rear carrier, rifle clips and tool bag would have been added. The inflator pump was relocated from the seat tube to the top tube, so as not to foul the lower rifle clip. The ‘Territorial’ illustration illustrates 2nd pattern open sided rifle clips. A roadster was thus transformed into a military model. BSA described it as the ‘BSA Territorial’.
I sell the replica rifle clips separately, though I’m including a set with this machine. The purchaser can choose the slab sided rifle clip already fitted, or the open style shown in the catalogue illustration below. If necessary, I can also supply a rear carrier rack, pump clips and inflator pump.
BSA HANDLEBAR GRIPS
