BSA or not ?

Hello
i buy my bicycle in a village of britain , France. But now the french man of tontonvelo forum are not convinced by the origin of her.
You can see all the photos in this topic : http://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=19733

a british bicycle can said to us if the matching number are from bsa or not; Sorry for my bad English.

Welcome. I like it. I am not a good reference for what is right or wrong on these bikes though. I am sure some members will come in on the subject. Hope you get the answers you are seeking.

Yes it's a BSA or at least it's a British racer. Nice original bike too.

Affirmative! The steering lock is missing but a superb sample of a negative slope frame too!

sources say 1905 aprox bsa racer

Nice BSA Lite Roadster!!

sam said:

Nice BSA Lite Roadster!!

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The BSA's that I'm familiar with had a real dropped tube like this one.

I also have a 1900 French "ZINGER" in the collection that has a sloped top tube.

comme expliqué sur le forum tonton vélo (voir mon dernier massage)

un vélo, avec des pièces BSA, n'est pas nécessairement un vélo BSA

mais ca reste un beau vélo

as statet in my latest reply on the " Forum tonton velo ", a bike, consisting of BSA parts, does not have to be called
a BSA bicycle

but it is still a nice bike

cdt, rgds

velootje

For this reason , i try to contact a specialist of bsa bicycle , like this man : https://bsamuseum.wordpress.com/1-welcome-to-the-bsa-museum/ . Perhaps he can have the reference of old BSA or the typical referencing ot matching number of 1900 to 1920/30.

For this reason , i try to contact a specialist of bsa bicycle , like this man : https://bsamuseum.wordpress.com/1-we...he-bsa-museum/ . Perhaps he can have the reference of old BSA or the typical referencing ot matching number of 1900 to 1920/30.

Bonjour copain,

Avant 1909 BSA n'a pas fait bicyclettes complètes, mais seulement vendu des composants pour les gens à construire leurs propres vélos. Le nom que nous donnons une telle bicyclette est un 'BSA FITTINGS BIKE.'
Il ne existe aucun registre de numéros pour les premiers vélos BSA, et à l'époque de votre vélo ne importe quel cadre peuvent être utilisés de manière un certain nombre ne est pas pertinent.
BSA raccords étaient encore vendus, même après 1909 - ce qui a permis toute petite boutique de vélos local pour fournir un vélo avec des composants de qualité à un client pour la moitié du prix d'une bicyclette régulière de la qualité. Votre vélo est assez similaire à celui ci-dessous, que je ai vendu il ya quelques mois à un client en France -

Before 1909 BSA did not make complete bicycles, but only sold components for people to build their own bicycles. The name we give such a bicycle is a 'BSA FITTINGS BIKE.' There are no records of numbers for early BSA bicycles, and in the era of your bicycle any frame could be used so a number is irrelevant. BSA Fittings were still sold even after 1909 - this enabled any small local bicycle shop to provide a bicycle with quality components to a customer for half the price of a regular quality bicycle. Your bicycle is quite similar to the one below, that I sold a few months ago to a customer in France -

http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/1912-2/1912-bsa-road-racer-built-from-a-pattern-fittings/