Old BSAs

Did BSA manufacture bikes with the shift on the right side and rear
brake on the left?

 

Er, yes, as did every other Brit and quite a few Italian
manufacturers....

And?

 

Er, yes, as did every other Brit and quite a few Italian
manufacturers....

And?[/QUOTE]

... some Japanese manufacturers, too.
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Just curious. Someone mentioned this to be the case. I did have a 1960s
something BSA single (250?) but I couldn't remember.

 

... some Japanese manufacturers, too.[/QUOTE]

And Suzuki did both - on the same bike....

 

Guzzi did too.

 

T500 and a couple of other early twins. They could be swapped from
right-foot to left-foot shift and vice versa.

 

That I didn't know.

 

V7s, 750S and the last convertible one was the 850T - IIRC what Gary
(Wesson's mechanic) told me years ago.

 

T500 and a couple of other early twins. They could be swapped from
right-foot to left-foot shift and vice versa.[/QUOTE]

As could the H1.
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As could the H1.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I'd forgotten that.

 

<writes in book>

 

Yes.


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They were built that way. However, they were designed so that you could
pull out the gear shift shaft, and stick it through the right-hand
casing, and the left-hand side of the frame had mounts for the brake
pedal and linkage.

Some people did the swap because they were brought up on right-hand gear
changes. The other group that did it was racers.

 

ISTR one bike (Ducati?) that at the time of the introduction of the
US mandate for LH gearshift ran a gearshift shaft completely through the
gearbox, with a splined end available both sides.

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