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Ah, so my ol' Airborne has gone back across the pond again. I hope it brings you much joy. Thanks for posting the Captain Stevens registry, I remember posting it on there but had completely forgotten the website's name. Off topic, there's a later pattern example for sale in Baltimore, Maryland...

This is listed now in the Classifieds section as a complete bike https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/bsa-paatroopers-folding-bicycle-first-pattern.189164/

This is an early production (First Pattern) folding bicycle made by BSA during World War 2. Later versions have a single tube for the seat tube. The bicycle is complete, and with the exception of the handlebars and lamp mount, original equipment all around. There are no cracks, dents or other...

I found some brake pads that fit perfectly in these old calipers. I wrote it up in another BSA Paratrooper thread. https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/reassembling-bsa-paratrooper-1st-pattern.184786/post-1261568

A quick note about brake pads. I'm putting the brake calipers on, and they're stripped to bare metal so I'm not bothering to put the brake pads in. But in my Box-O-BSA there's a packet of brake pads that I have no idea where I got (best guess is the bike shop near M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA, where...

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Progress! (The bike is upside down because there's a rowboat in the shop with it.) Axles went into hubs; tubes & tires went onto rims; wheels went onto frame. Now for some nitty-gritty... The rear axle measured 3/8" (0.370", actually) at the threads and was in the neighborhood of 26 TPI...

Not much progress on the reassembly this week, but here's some close up expository pictures of the thing in case anyone needs them in the future. It was difficult to find information about these when I first acquired it in the 1990s, so I'm a bit of a pedant about publishing the information that...

Yes, there was a broken one on display at a bike shop I used to go to. Ugly mess. This one seems to not have been ridden, from what I've seen of the bearing races. I have a picture of the patent decal before I erased it, and from what I can tell there was no broad arrow on the head tube, though...

Like a lot of people during the pandemic I'm taking some old projects down from the high shelves and getting them in order. Now it's time to reassemble my BSA Paratrooper (Airborne) bicycle, SN R6599. I bought this in 1997 and rode it a couple times, then stowed it away until 1999 when I began...