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Message started by LANCER on 07/08/09 at 20:42:08

Title: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by LANCER on 07/08/09 at 20:42:08

This is not a Savage or S40 but it is one fine motorcycle; take a look at a few photos...

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956bsaupdate609/daves%2013%20101.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956bsaupdate609/daves%2013%20104.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956bsaupdate609/daves%2013%20102.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956bsaupdate609/daves%2013%20106.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956bsaupdate609/daves%2013%20109.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956bsaupdate609/daves%2013%20108.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956BSAgoldstarDBD34o08/MV%20madness%20093.jpg

http://www.michaelsmotorcycles.com/1956BSAgoldstarDBD34o08/MV%20madness%20080.jpg

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by doc5446 on 07/08/09 at 22:00:22

I like the gauge in the headlight...very cool!!!

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by fretman on 07/08/09 at 22:17:31

That's beautiful. A friend of mine has a BSA very similar to that one, except it looks like it was driven through a minefield. Still runs like gangbusters though!

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by Serowbot on 07/08/09 at 22:25:45

Beaudiful!...

Chrome tanks make me weak in the knees..... ::)

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by klx650sm2002 on 07/09/09 at 01:27:25

Nice one Lancer.
Clive W :)

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by PerrydaSavage on 07/09/09 at 03:22:26

Yup!! taht is one FINE lookin' m/c! 8-)

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by genejohnson on 07/09/09 at 04:48:49

Observe.... The small hand lever under the clutch lever is the compression release lever. Gene

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by bill67 on 07/09/09 at 05:11:56

My brother inlaw had a, i think 441 bsa in the 1960s it that the same?

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by AngloSaxon on 07/09/09 at 05:54:49

The reason I fell in love with the Savage was because of bikes like this one. I always loved the big singles.

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by rokrover on 07/09/09 at 07:44:22

I always thought the Matchless G50 / AJS 7R prettier:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Eiub28WCWGs/SV6vrH0LxwI/AAAAAAAAHl8/OO3Hg1PpGVI/s576/HOB34.jpg

Virgil Elings has a superb collection in his Solvang museum
http://www.motosolvang.com/overview.htm

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 07/09/09 at 07:57:23

Its got a "Highway" knob on the handlebars? Is that to snug the steering down a bit?
Yea, the gauge in the headlamp bucket takes me back to another age in manufacturing. Very nice stuff there.

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by Rocco on 07/09/09 at 08:01:46

u guys are killing me! those are some gorgeous lookin machines!

if u like old school rides, and don't mind a little profanity or nudity the movie HELL RIDE is basically full of sweet old bikes. it's a quinton tarentino movie so u know how nuts he is, but i love the movie!

http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/hell_ride05.jpg

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2008_Hell_Ride/2008_hell_ride_003.jpg

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by LANCER on 07/09/09 at 13:59:45

332C2A2D30370636063E2C206B590 wrote:

Its got a "Highway" knob on the handlebars? Is that to snug the steering down a bit?
Yea, the gauge in the headlamp bucket takes me back to another age in manufacturing. Very nice stuff there.

If you are referring to the large black knob just above the center of the bars/risers, that is a steering damper.

I had a '56 Goldstar and I have been remaking the Savage to remind me of the Goldstar in some small fashion. They are both big singles but beyond that are very different bikes.

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by JohnBoy on 07/12/09 at 19:26:16

Thanks for the pictures!
43 years later and she is still the prettiest girl at the dance!!!

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by LANCER on 07/12/09 at 20:35:04

193C3B3D113C2A530 wrote:

Thanks for the pictures!
43 years later and she is still the prettiest girl at the dance!!!

YEP ;)

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by gerald.hughes on 07/12/09 at 21:53:28

You know that you are getting older, when you look at a bike with drum brakes, points, a kick starter, and all that you can feel is lust. What makes it worse is that there are no apologies for the feeling. How many bikes today can inspire that emotion?

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by Savage_Amusement on 07/12/09 at 21:59:33

I like a lot of those bikes in those pictures. Some of the guys at work make fun of me because I like a lot of years of bikes. They pretty much only like retarded expensive customs or rockets... sucks to be them.

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by LANCER on 07/13/09 at 02:58:22

656E6B6B3130070 wrote:

My brother inlaw had a, i think 441 bsa in the 1960s it that the same?

The 441 Victor was not the same as the Gold Star ... not even close. It was a mild mannered dirt bike that was considered woefully inadequate at the time.

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by LANCER on 07/13/09 at 03:01:10

2F2D3A29242C66203D2F202D3B480 wrote:

If I may, I would like to modify you emotion slightly and call it passionate lust 8-)

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by voldigicam on 07/13/09 at 04:00:20

That's the kind of bike I saw when I was growing up. More or less. Big singles still sound right to me. That was, in part, the Savage draw. And that I thought my wife might be able to actually drive the Savage.

I rode a Royal Enfield Deluxe, with the chrome tank. Handled beautifully, sounded right. But needed more power. I'm waiting until the bikes start to flood the market in late October. If it is still available, I'll lowball the fellow. Would need (of course) some mods to get anything out of it. Think it's 18 HP. Regardless, eventually I'll end up with an Enfield, the last old bike. But perhaps one of the new ones, with more modern fork and the aluminum higher HP engine.

Or maybe my brother will give up on his motorcycle restorations. I think he has an Indian and a Triumph at the moment.

Title: Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
Post by bill67 on 07/13/09 at 04:12:19

4B46494442551510270 wrote:

[quote author=656E6B6B3130070 link=1247110929/0#7 date=1247141516] My brother inlaw had a, i think 441 bsa in the 1960s it that the same?

The 441 Victor was not the same as the Gold Star ... not even close. It was a mild mannered dirt bike that was considered woefully inadequate at the time.[/quote]
My brother in laws wasn't a off road bike and didn't have a high exhaust pipe