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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.
The BSA unit single B50's 500 cc enjoyed much improvement in the hands of the CCM motorcycle company allowing the basic BSA design to continue until the mid to late 1970s in a competitive form all over Europe. The final BSA range was just four models: Gold Star 500, 650 Thunderbolt/Lightning and the 750 cc Rocket Three.
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
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Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930. The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) 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 ...
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 .
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.