BSA Motorcycle: Juni 2013

BSA Gold Star

The Gold Star is a motorcycle made by BSA from 1938–1963. They were 350 cc and 500 cc single-cylinder four-stroke production motorcycle known for being amongst the fastest bikes of the 1950s. Being hand built and with many optional performance modifications available, each motorcycle came from the factory with documenteddynamometer test results, allowing the new owner to see the horsepower produced.

BSA Gold Star

In 1937, Wal Handley lapped the Brooklands circuit at over 100 mph (160 km/h) on aBSA Empire Star, and was awarded one of the traditional Gold Star pins for the feat. That inspired BSA to produce the BSA Gold Star.^[3] The first Gold Star was an M24 model. It had an alloy 496 cc engine, an Electron alloy gearbox, and a light tube frame devoid of sidecar attachment lugs. This model continued up to the start of World War II.

BSA m20

The M20 has two interesting facts attached to it. First, it was the most widely built military motorcycle of the Second World War, with a shade over 126,000 units produced. Second, despite the huge numbers of M20s which were manufactured, it was not the most popular motorcycle with the troops who rode into battle. Almost every BSA rider would have dumped their M20 in a ditch, at the first opportunity, in order to have the vastly better Matchless G3L.
The M20 story goes back to 1936 and Britain’s greatest motorcycle designer ever, Val Page. I am a huge fan of Valentine Page, and the M20 either shows that he was having a bad day at the office or, more likely, BSA management had really put the knuckle screws on him in terms of cost cutting.

BSA m20

The aim was to produce a dull as ditch water, 500cc side-valve Single with a lot of torque. The job of this unworthy steed would be to plod around British roads, pulling a sidecar which would contain Mum, three kids and the family dog. When you realize that BSA were only claiming 13 hp for their new 500 you can see that this was not intended to be a hot sports set-up.

When the bike was first submitted to the Ministry of Defence in 1937 it was rejected, with both the piston and cylinder barrel failing after 6000 miles.

The second batch of prototypes was better, just scraping through the 10,000 mile minimum target and a small lot of M20s were ordered in 1937. There was a tremendous irony in the order. The M20 was heavily criticized by the evaluation team at the Mechanisation Experimental Establishment at Farnborough for being slow, heavy and possessing an extremely low ground clearance.

BSA Royal Enfield

Royal Enfield was the name under which the Enfield Cycle Company mademotorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers and stationary engines. This legacy of weapons manufacture is reflected in the logo, a cannon, and their motto "Made like a gun, goes like a bullet". Use of the brand name Royal Enfield was licensed by the Crown in 1890. The original Redditch, Worcestershire based company was sold to Norton-Villiers-Triumph (NVT) in 1968. Production ceased in 1970 and the company was dissolved in 1971.

BSA Royal Enfield

In 1956 Enfield of India started assembling Bullet motorcycles under licence from UK components, and by 1962 were manufacturing complete bikes. Enfield of India bought the rights to use the Royal Enfield name in 1995. Royal Enfield production, based inChennai, continues and Royal Enfield is now the oldest motorcycle brand in the world still in production with the Bullet model enjoying the longest motorcycle production run of all time.

Senin, 03 Juni 2013

BSA Gold Star

BSA m20

BSA Royal Enfield