BSA M20-style models

[Flanker]

Hello there!

I have absolutely fallen in love with the BSA M20, that motorcycle has something unique.

After searching through all the well-known brand catalogs and some less-known motorcycle shops, I still haven't found a model that has that long shape, sit height, handlebar height, and space in the rear mudguard for saddlebags and utility that the M20's got.

The closest thing I have found are, funny enough, the Ural models, but they come with a sidecar and are notoriously unreliable. I asked this same question on my flight-sim forum, and they sent me looking for the W800, the Bonneville Bobber, and the CCM Spitfires, but none of those really hit the mark.

Appreciate the help! Please find a picture of the M20 I'm talking about attached to this post.

Cheers!

[Evil Hans]

RE Bullet?

https://www.royalenfield.com/uk/en/motorcycles/bullet-500/

Classic?

https://www.royalenfield.com/uk/en/motorcycles/classic-models/classic-500-tribute-black/
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[Easy-X]

Another vote for the Bullet There may be other retro knock-offs out there but Enfield has the numbers and more importantly the parts and support to keep it going.
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[wr6133]

Royal Enfield Bullet 350 or 500. If you want the proper old fashioned feeling then a pre-unit (pre 2009), it's an old Brit bike the Indians forgot to stop making , gear shifter on right, rear brake on left, shift pattern 1 up, 3 down, interesting brakes. Don't cost the earth to buy and parts are plentiful.

If you want old looking without the actual old features then a Royal Enfield Bullet (or classic, same bike different cosmetics), post 2009. These have a Unit construction engine, fuel injection, brakes that brake, shifter and rear brake in normal place and a 5 speed box that has a "normal" shift pattern. It's still an aircooled pushrod single though so feels closer when riding to an older Enfield than any modern big single.

You can actually buy a hard tail rear and a girder front to make a pre-unit look fairly similar to that pic of a BSA.

[Flanker]

Thanks for the help!

It seems like the RE Classic 500 really fits the bill.

Apart from getting a hardtail rear and a girder front, how would you go about installing a saddlebag rack on top of/around the rear mudguard?

[wr6133]

[Flanker]

It would certainly be for riding.

What I am thinking of is:

1. Buy a Classic 500 (post-2009).

2. Bolt on a rack on the rear.

3. Leave it as is after that and enjoy the bike .

[stinkwheel]

Why not go full retard and get a pre-unit enfield bullet and fit a Hitchcocks "ridgid bullet" kit for authentic 1940's style piles and lumbar spine compression?

https://youtu.be/kfpsxAOhd18

One of the Chinese 125 modifiers was knocking out CG125 clones that looked like pre-war BSAs. Even flat tankers. Black Douglas?
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[Flanker]

Yes! That's it! (Look at above download)

You sir have the exact bike I have in mind

[Flanker]

What do you think of the Yamaha SCR950?

Any idea on how to make it look a bit more "post-war" and less modern?

[Easy-X]

[stinkwheel]

[Riejufixing]

[Polarbear]

A Ural with a sidecar, two wheel drive and a reverse gear. With a machine-gun mounted on the sidecar,

One of my bucket list bikes.
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