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The BSA Gold Star is a motorcycle made by BSA from 1938 to 1963. They were 350 cc and 500 cc single-cylinder four-stroke production motorcycles known for being among the fastest bikes of the 1950s.
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.
Engineer Eric Cheney developed a lightweight competition for a BSA Gold Star in the 1960s which saw success in the 1970s when John Banks won the British Motocross Championship on a Cheney-framed BSA motorcycle. [2] He never worked for any of the major manufacturers but maintained a productive relationship with BSA in its heyday.
BSA, the ages-old British motorcycle manufacturer is making its grand return with a new, retro model called the BSA Gold Star. BSA Gold Star revealed as a retro, but still modern motorcycle Skip ...
A10 Rocket Gold Star: 650 cc 1962 1963 Special - tuned Super Rocket in a Gold Star frame. Known as "Gold Star Twin" in the US A50 Star: 500 cc 1962 1970 Also called "Star Twin" and "Royal Star" Called "Royal Star" in all markets from 1966 onwards A50C Cyclone Road 500 cc 1964 1965 Tuned version of A50 Star (US only) A50C Cyclone Competition 500 cc
The concept was then further developed – as Monty had done with the BSA Gold Star engine – by reducing the 650 cc capacity to under 500 cc, retaining the standard bore of 71 mm but shortening the stroke to 62.5 mm, using a new crankshaft having a shortened throw made by sidecar racer Owen Greenwood [10] together with 10 mm shaved-off the ...
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.
The fastest model on the market in 1956 was the BSA Gold Star Clubman, which at 110 mph (180 km/h) was not a record holder, but is listed for the sake of illustrating a more complete timeline. This article needs to be updated .