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1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE (Read 228 times)
gerald.hughes
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Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
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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?
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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.
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Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
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07/13/09 at 02:58:22
bill67 wrote
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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.
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07/13/09 at 03:01:10
gerald.hughes wrote
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?
If I may, I would like to modify you emotion slightly and call it
passionate lust
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Re: 1956 BSA Goldstar 500cc ... FINE
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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.
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07/13/09 at 04:12:19
LANCER wrote
on 07/13/09 at 02:58:22:
bill67 wrote
on 07/09/09 at 05:11:56:
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.
My brother in laws wasn't a off road bike and didn't have a high exhaust pipe
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