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1964 B40 Star. The first model of the series was the B40 Star, introduced in 1961. The new 350 cc engine had 21 bhp, which gave a cruising speed of 50 - 55 mph and a top speed of 75 mph. [8] The Star had deeply valenced, painted mudguards; metal fork shrouds and the headlamp was fitted in a nacelle. [10]
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.
BSA A65 Star; BSA A70 Lightning; B. BSA B21; BSA B25; BSA B40; BSA B44; BSA B44 Shooting Star; BSA B50; BSA Bantam; BSA Barracuda; Birmingham Small Arms Company; BSA ...
B40 350 cc 1960 1965 SS90 350 cc 1962 1965 High-performance version of B40 B44 GP: 441 cc 1965 1967 the first unit single with oil-bearing frame. Used super strong/lightweight Reynolds 531 tubing aimed at competition use B44 VE "Victor Enduro" 441 cc 1966 1970 B44 "Victor Roadster" 441 cc 1966 1970 From 1968 to 1970, called "441 Shooting Star"
BSA B40, a 350cc British motorcycle; Blackburn B.40, an experimental Blackburn flying boat; Rolls-Royce B40 Engine, an inline-four petrol engine primarily used in the Austin Champ; Unterseeboot B-40, World War I Imperial Germany Navy submarine U-boat; YB-40 Flying Fortress, an aircraft
The BSA B44 Shooting Star was a motorcycle made by BSA at their factory in Small Heath, Birmingham. Similar to the BSA C15 and sharing many of the same parts, the B44 had an uprated chassis. [ 3 ] A weak point of the BSA 250 and most 350 unit singles were the big end bearing and timing side crank bush.
The B33-3 O.H.V. 249cc Blue Star was called the Blue Star Junior and the R33-5 348cc O.H.V. Blue Star was known as the Sporting Blue Star. It was the W33-8 (Q21 in 1936) 499cc O.H.V. that became the most popular, however, and led to the development of the Gold Star.It was known as the "sea beezer" and it was BSAs fifth best seller.
The BSA A65 Star was a Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) motorcycle aimed at the US market for unit construction twins. As well as giving a clean look to the engine, with the pushrod passages part of the cylinder block casting, unit construction reduced the number of places oil could leak from. [ 3 ]