http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1920-zenith-v-twin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1920-zenith-v-twin Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1920-zenith-v-twin/#comment-2250 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:41:15 +0000 http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/what-is-this-jap-bike/#comment-2250 So far as I am aware, this is the sole surviving Blue Bird motorcycle 770 JAP 1919

]]> http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1920-zenith-v-twin/#comment-2207 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:27 +0000 http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/what-is-this-jap-bike/#comment-2207 Yes, but it’s Zenith GCS made ​​in Australia

]]> http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1920-zenith-v-twin/#comment-1972 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:07:11 +0000 http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/what-is-this-jap-bike/#comment-1972 Let me guess that Ric – or at least his grandparents – lived in Australia. The bike is not a Zenith, but is typical of the products of any one of the many small Australian manufacturers in the years after WW1. JAP twin (many were stamped “War Product”), Sturmey Archer CS gearbox, Druid Mk.2 fork, AMAC carb, Best and Lloyd dripper – all good product from “home”, and surprisingly there was some supply from which to build bikes in 1917-18. Only the Dixi magneto (from the US) is a nod to the difficulties of getting magnetos after the German Bosch became unavailable.

]]> http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1920-zenith-v-twin/#comment-155 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:09:07 +0000 http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/what-is-this-jap-bike/#comment-155 Zenith v twin 1000. ccm.1920 1921

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