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Road Rocket badge on top of fuel tank. Launched as the top of BSA's range in 1954 the BSA Road Rocket was the first A10 engine with an alloy cylinder head. [2] Unlike the Golden Flash, the inlet manifold was separate from the cylinder head [7] enabling twin carburettors to be fitted if required. [6] It had a single Amal TT carburettor as ...
1954 Road Rocket. The Road Rocket was a sports motorcycle developed from the Golden Flash. Launched as the top of BSA's range in 1954 the BSA Road Rocket was the first A10 engine with an alloy cylinder head. [31] Unlike the Golden Flash, the inlet manifold was separate to the cylinder head [7] enabling twin carburettors to be fitted if required ...
A10 Road Rocket: 650 cc 1954 1957 Tuned version of "Golden Flash" A10 Spitfire Scrambler 650 cc 1957 1963 Tuned off-road racer (US only) A10 Super Rocket: 650 cc 1958 1963 Amal TT 'racing' carburettor and new "357" full-race camshaft A10 Rocket Gold Star: 650 cc 1962 1963 Special - tuned Super Rocket in a Gold Star frame.
The BSA unit twins were a range of unit construction twin-cylinder motorcycles made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) and aimed at the US market. A range of 500 cc (31 cu in), 650 cc (40 cu in) and 750 cc (46 cu in) twins were produced between 1962 and 1972, [1] but they were really developments of the older pre-unit A7/A10 model range with less weight. [2]
BSA motorcycles were made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA), which was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process.
The BSA Rocket Gold Star (RGS) was a 646 cc (39.4 cu in) air-cooled parallel twin motorcycle produced by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) at Small Heath, Birmingham. Launched in February 1962, it was one of the final range of A10 twins , using a tuned A10 Super Rocket engine in the double-downtube Gold Star frame.
BSA A7; BSA A10 series; BSA A65 Rocket; BSA A65 Star; BSA A70 Lightning; B. BSA B21; BSA B25; BSA B40; ... BSA Road Rocket; BSA Rocket Gold Star; BSA Rocket 3/Triumph ...
The BSA/Triumph racing triples were three cylinder 750 cc racing motorcycles manufactured by BSA/Triumph and raced with factory support from 1969 to 1974. There were road racing, production racing, endurance racing and flat track variants. The machines were based on the road-going BSA Rocket 3/Triumph Trident.