[Arschloch]

Bilgemaster, you hit the nail on the head. That bike is an insult to anyone who has been in the presence of an actual BSA Goldie. Why not name these machines proudly Indian?

That's a good question. In the meanwhile we have to endure a pride parade almost every weekend demonstrating for animal rights. God was that an outcry VW testing diesel fumes on monkeys in mexico. They should have tested on humans no one would bother. Preferably on the god fearing Brazilians that crucify themselves voluntarily.

[AzCal Retred]

@ #37: How exactly do you expect the efi to increase the power output in any meaningful way? The only real world advantages to efi is that it saves a meaningless amount of fuel and is more precise to keep tha stoichiometric ratio under all conditions which is a prerequisite for the cataclist to do a somewhat meaninful job.

Well, you could start with the 650 & UCE section where folks are using the tuners to increase both drivability & power. EFI allows accurate metering under a highly variable set of real world conditions, like altitude/air density, air temperature, etc. Viczena has lectured long & hard on this. Many members here have dyno time verifying it. Personally my 24mm carb on my 2002 ES350 works adequately for my needs, but 16-18 HP isn't hard to come by.
"Bee not the first by whom the new is tried, nor the last to cast the olds aside" B. Franklin

[Warwick]

duplicate

[AzCal Retred]

Can you imagine a salesman trying to sell one of these to a modern customer? Likely a serious buyer would have to start it for the salesman. EFI & electric start are a requirement now - imagine trying to retrofit that to a DB34.

350cc BSA Gold Star start up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtdOr0M3mRk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWNV-2UFquE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_iwSPXuks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVDdLf39g3w

[Richard230]

I hope you at least got your deposit back. 

I did, but it took a year before my dealer finally heard the official word that the bike would not be coming to the U.S. and refunded my deposit.

[Karl Childers]

 I wanted one of these, they did make it to the US but not into my garage. A friend has a nice restored one in his cellar, sadly it never gets ridden

[Richard230]

Here are the rest of the pages from the 1971 BSA brochure.

[Richard230]

And the last one.

[AzCal Retred]

R230 - thanks for posting, what a trip down memory lane. Amazing how in the wayback that merely by adding different bars, front fender, and maybe an exhaust pipe the factory could convert a road burner to a trail bike. Shades of Hodaka! 

[Karl Childers]

BSA and Triumph in the late 60's had a very nice twin leading shoe brake , BSA's next front brake offering seen on the bikes in the pictures was the conical hub brake. It quickly earned the nickname "comical hub brake" it performed so poorly compared to the previous TLS.  By that point the handwriting was already on the wall for BSA. The Rocket Three was the last hurrah but even that was a sales flop at least in the States due to it's styling.

[Richard230]

Here are a couple of photos of the dealership that used to sell BSAs in Pacifica located near the beach. I think these photos were probably taken during the late 1970's, about the time that I bought a 1977 Yamaha SR500 from the shop. The building is now occupied by a surf shop and a couple of other businesses.

[GlennF]

Probably the most famous BSA of all time among non-motorcyclists is Michael Lang's Shooting Star (Victor) that featured in the original Woodstock movie ....

[Karl Childers]

Groovy bike for a groovy time!

[gizzo]

Anyone remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SmM5ygFOso

[Karl Childers]

Anyone remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SmM5ygFOso

Put that against a sound track of bongo drums and staccato delivery you have Beat poetry of the 1950's, think Kerouac and Ginsberg. Take away the synthesized music and amp up the delivery  some more and you have contemporary Slam poetry. I like all three. The Punk era had its moments!