Posted on 12/03/2021 12:34:08 PM PST by Red Badger
BSA Motorcycles is back and is set to reveal its first new model in decades on December 4 (Spoiler: this classic Rocket 3 isn't it)BSA Motorcycles VIEW 2 IMAGES
One of the world’s leading motorcycle manufacturers of the 1950s and 60s, BSA is set to resume operations almost half a century after it went bankrupt, funded by its new owner, India’s Mahindra & Mahindra, and with a new factory under construction in England.
BSA Motorcycles Ltd. broke the news with the first ever tweet in its brand new Twitter account: “Return of a Legend. #BSAisBack. We’ve evolved, but our DNA remains unaltered.” The short supporting video features a sequence of emblems from BSA’s long history, ending with the familiar red logo that leads its revival.
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I was interested in one of those but they hadn’t started selling them here yet when I got my Scout.
The trouble with bikes is, one is never enough!
Yes. The British vertical twin of the time was a great motor.
My first bike in 1972 was a 1969 BSA Lightning.
Kind of like losing your virginity to a beautiful girl who gives you the clap. I loved it, hated it, and in later years wished I had gone with the CB750.
Looking back, I have often wondered what possessed me to get it after having owned a Triumph Spitfire. Young and stupidly impulsive.
Did somebody say scooters? Two stroke Vespas were a hoot. I melted the piston in my hot-rodded Zuma and finally moved to a 170cc four-stroke. It is the perfect urban assault vehicle for SW Florida traffic. 87mpg at 63mph.
How many people know how tickle a carburetor?
A “thumper”. A real beauty. Can’t do better than black and chrome.
Fact is, electrical engineers don’t know which “direction” electricity “flows”. It is so instantaneous it doesn’t necessarily have a beginning or an end.
A V4 500?
You gots an RZ500? What continent are you one? I'd give my left nard and the firstborn child from my next marriage for one of them.
It's a sad world we live in when there are no more 2-stroke motorcycles prowling the streets of America. There's nothing like the sound of 10,000 angry bumblebees in a Hi-C can (and the aroma of burning pre-mix) to get your adrenaline pumping.
There are 2 1976 RD400’s and a 1975 Z1B900 Kawasaki next to the 2 500’s in the Hangar. One of the 400’s is a Canada Import and looks identical to a Daytona.
2 Strokes are a lot of FUN!!!
You can buy them in Canada and now that they are officially “antiques” you can import them again, It will Cost You $$, I have had these for years along with the 2 RD400’s next to them in the Hangar, one of which I rode to High School
“I had a 67 441 Victor, One of the icons. Currently have a 1950 Gold Star.”
Both look awesome.
Would the 441 be considered a trials bike?
Btw I still have my 67 Triumph tiger...somewhere in the garage.
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I got myself a Triumph Bonneville. It’s made in Indonesia and has the same crappy electrical system as the older UK versions. At least Indian owned BSA will be building the bikes in the UK. I also have a Jaguar built by Ford. It is about as reliable the 1972 Jaguar I owned built in the UK. So we’ll see.
Well the 441 was like a few other make and models coming out at the time, basically a street bike with a few small changes, like having the exhaust run higher along the side, on/off road tires, shorter rear fender, and slightly taller rear shocks and front forks.
The term everyone used for these “on/off road” models coming out like this was “Scrambler”. But it was a street bike repurposed for off road, heavy, tall street gears, but plenty tractor torque to pull those tall gears.
So it wasn’t really practical for trials riding.
2 strokes are sleepers on the street, you just have to manage the powerband.
I think GP bikes were 2 strokes until some environmental crap made them change.
Too bad.
Cannot post a pic to save my life!
.....And don’t start on the “look at the instruction posts”. Been there. For 21 years, been there.
My Alabama educated mind simply cannot break the Navajo code....
RLTW
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