let's see your BSA motorcyles

[2manyrides]

While negotiating the sweeping right hander on the marshall grade,
I was included in a clip by a fellow rider. In the clip's thumbnail,
I'm right there next to a rocket 3 using the inside line.
When you run the clip,
I'm rider #5 and you hear the thumper's unique sound!



Other motherlode vid's linked below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFoa_K6M9cQ bsaoc 2010 ml part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjKAm69dUQ bsaoc 2010 ml part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb1ErQ0QCv0 bsa club ride 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CYi6XlxH84 bsa club ride 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ybf_dinoIM bsa club ride 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUUFtDbZuaI bsa club ride 1

[MC Dreamer]

My latest painting. My mates 1962 Gold Star Clubman 500, but this one is special because it is painted with Nutely Blue for the New Jersey distributors. Same colour as the Catalina 500s. Goldies were hand built and legend has it that this expense was a primary factor in the desmise of BSA.
If you would like to see more of my motorcycle art go to the gallery on my website. www.custommotorcycleart.com

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by MC Dreamer

My latest painting. My mates 1962 Gold Star Clubman 500, but this one is special because it is painted with Nutely Blue for the New Jersey distributors. Same colour as the Catalina 500s. Goldies were hand built and legend has it that this expense was a primary factor in the desmise of BSA.
If you would like to see more of my motorcycle art go to the gallery on my website. www.custommotorcycleart.com

That's a beautiful Goldie, but it has the wrong carb on it - it looks like a Concentric with a velocity stack but it should have the 1.5" Amal GP carb, in lovely white aluminium. Not the pot metal of a Concentric.

I've had two Goldies over the years, and the carb was one of the very distinctive parts of the bike. It's just as important as the 190 MM front brake and clip-ons...

It's a lovely representation of your friend's bike, but it's just too bad that part's not original.

[Cariboo_kid]

He are a few shots from my late uncle Joe Ward's collection. Joe was a travelling sales rep for B.S.A. importer Hap Alzina during the late 50s and early 60s and knew many of the key BSA personel in the US and England.



Ed
Ed Somers English Motorcycles, Fresno California


Hap Alzina, far left. Joe Ward, far right.







Gold Stars at Riverside Raceway, 1960

[2manyrides]

Oh My...


Nice post there!

[MC Dreamer]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

That's a beautiful Goldie, but it has the wrong carb on it - it looks like a Concentric with a velocity stack but it should have the 1.5" Amal GP carb, in lovely white aluminium. Not the pot metal of a Concentric.

I've had two Goldies over the years, and the carb was one of the very distinctive parts of the bike. It's just as important as the 190 MM front brake and clip-ons...

It's a lovely representation of your friend's bike, but it's just too bad that part's not original.

Thanks for the info.. it is hard to find true originals...so many of the classic bikes have a few bits and pieces on them that are not totally original....but we try.

[ThomasVolomitz]

O H but to have just one of the scoots in the amazing line up in the first pic. You would be king!!!

[Mr. Cob]

Howdy All,

I have had this bike since 1973, its a 1968 Thunder Bolt, still runs great.

[aprilian]

Only BSA I ever owned. It was made from a 58 Shooting Star with the aluminum head and the long reach spark plugs.

[greenthumb]

Took this a few years back in Cozumel, Mexico.

[2manyrides]

they haven't ALL been fixed up yet!

[2manyrides]

I'd like to re-introduce my bike to y'all...why not, I started the thread.
She's runnin' 8 discs in her supertrapp.
Listen for her muffler sound here... (and her tappets)



And here's some bridge crossings...a two camera shoot



This was after traveling a good 80 miles to get to ellicott's crossing. And although I took the speedo off the bike back in the 70's, my riding buddies said I was going just over 90mph on the way there.
Sorry I didn't do such daring stunts for the camera.

[ChopHawk]

1967 Thunderbolt

[2manyrides]

It was the BSAONC annual motherlode ride.
I didn't make the run, but I did make the "meet-up".
Here's a look at some of the riders that showed. There will be a video.























And that's just to show a few of them...

[K1W1]

At Bayles 2011 (see my other thread)