Other Bikes » 2022 BSA Gold Star model announced

Check this out guys. This Indian company will be introducing a new BSA Gold Star thumper to the market next year. I will be displayed at the upcoming UK motorcycle show. Here is a link to an interview with the BSA company's director of the brand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDFZAp4bR_4

Finally an Indian company who has brought a famous British motorcycle brand and has designed a model that actually looks like something from the past, while meeting the latest emission and safety requirements.

Pricing is still up in the air. I assume it will be whatever the company believes that the market will bear.

More information and specifications in this short video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg3jBQuwes8

WOW ; Bringing back the gold star. Having owned 3 goldies, i am looking forward learning more about them. I am in the process of setting up an older Suzuki s40 savage to suit my riding style ( english bars, rearsets, exhaust etc ) but a goldie with brakes, fuel injector and elect start, modern tires, etc. would make a great stable mate for my R1200RS Lets hope the exhaust will still twitters an the weight will be reasonable

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WOW ; Bringing back the gold star. Having owned 3 goldies, i am looking forward learning more about them. I am in the process of setting up an older Suzuki s40 savage to suit my riding style ( english bars, rearsets, exhaust etc ) but a goldie with brakes, fuel injector and elect start, modern tires, etc. would make a great stable mate for my R1200RS Lets hope the exhaust will still twitters an the weight will be reasonable

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It's a Mahindra product. Their home market products carry the JAWA label, without the CZ.

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WOW ; Bringing back the gold star. Having owned 3 goldies, i am looking forward learning more about them. I am in the process of setting up an older Suzuki s40 savage to suit my riding style ( english bars, rearsets, exhaust etc ) but a goldie with brakes, fuel injector and elect start, modern tires, etc. would make a great stable mate for my R1200RS Lets hope the exhaust will still twitters an the weight will be reasonable

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Power is claimed to be 45hp, with the likelihood that it might be increased sometime in the future. Kerb weight is said to be 470 pounds.

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For those of us of a certain age the looks and thought of homage Gold Star big single is very enticing. I would love to see it up close and listen to it's sound. Any word on importing to the US?
I am surprised by it's weight.

The wet weight of the Royal Enfield is 421-lbs. Less, but not impressively so. A 1974 Honda CB-360 had a wet weight of ~370-lbs.

This reminds me of a visit to an "out-of-business" Honda dealership/museum in the 90s. Located in Williamsport PA, it was a great place and the owner employed a lifelong MC mechanic to do the restoration work. Standing in rather neat coveralls, the Mechanic looked to be every bit of 85, but with no hint of ever succumbing to a single vice. Dressed in a tuxedo, he would have been a perfect stand-in for an English butler on PBS. During my visit, the Mechanic was restoring a British 1950's 2-stroke that looked like a BSA Bantam, but with more sheet metal, like a stylized Italian MC. I don't recall the exact name/brand. However, what I do remember was the Mechanics observation that the engines were underpowered and the frame/body components were made of pot-metal (i.e., low strength, high weight). So, while pretty, the machine was very slow relative the Honda products which used higher strength, lighter weight materials.

Yep, that's a common observation across the Benelli range. Why so darn heavy?

When BMW went to pressed steel for the frames of their F850/900 models it seemed to have increased the weight of the bikes by about 40 pounds compared with the previous F800 models that used a steel tube trellis chassis.

TheMissendenFlyer takes a look at the new BSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMS-S4_G6c

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TheMissendenFlyer takes a look at the new BSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMS-S4_G6c

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Here is Cycle World's spin on the new BSA. Nothing new here, other than some more nice photos of the bike. It really does look nice if you can ignore that large black radiator hung on the front of the chassis: https://www.cycleworld.com/story/motorcy...t-look-preview/