2022 BSA Gold Star - exclusive pre-launch interview with BSA bosses 

10k NZ maybe.From what I seen it has some cheap parts like radiator plumbing & thick radiator off a Jawa,Yezdi instead of a thin alloy high flow radiator like on Triumph. Multiple colours on engine & dull black & dull grey make it look plastic.If it 10k in pounds you'd just buy a Triumph.I don't know if you've noticed the engine is quite far back & side on is a large gap.10k😆😂

Well said. An impressive couple of guys. Good luck to them.

All looks fine. have to see about the price.

@CarryTheTruth Classic Legends have other brands in India - Yezdi and Jawa and this brand switch for the Indian market seems very likely!

@CarryTheTruth theyre fairly new on the scene...RE has been around for donkeys years and theyve just upped the ante in terms of investment...so definitely agree with you here! The BSA moniker is just not the same with this revival! This is a brand new project for all practical purposes!

They dont even build Triumph in England so not very likely to build an Indian bike over here.

Forget bike these guys don't even have cycle in their blood. In India they tried to revive 2 legendary brands well they are pathetic at it cause they lack passion in what they are making looking at the build engine and the sound of the goldstar I feel they have done the same thing to bsa which they did to jawa and yezdi in India that is basically giving us a ripoff of a bike

​@@thra5herxb12s Dean thats just wrong.....of course Triumph still build bikes in the UK....in fact they are in the process of employing 100s more to start a new production factory in the UK very soon. All Triumph Bikes built abroad are built in factories managed by Brits with British supervision......build a wholly British designed machine....its as good as that.

Which models exactly in the Triumph line up are now built in the UK?@@nickaxe771

Mark its SOUTH.....JUST..🇬🇧

They are not beating Enfield

i totaly agree with you i know that the 600 cc gold star engine is a big improvement

SPOT ON MARK..... MORE OPTIMISM!🇬🇧

@@keithmoore5224 A big improvement over what?

A big improvement over the Enfield.

Thanks, as an older biker I did wonder and worry!

Lol. As soon as I heard Lucas, I had to chuckle.

I bought a brand new Guzzi Eldorado three years ago. Best bike I've ever owned.

Guzzi, still air cooled and authentic, solid, good value too. Get one whilst you still can, surely will be regulated out of the market before too much longer.

Triumph is a wholly owned UK very very successful company....ok most of present day Triumphs are build abroad..wise move for access to huge markets. Overseas factories are all maned by British Engineers and management.....bikes are wholly designed in the UK.

If you do, better do it now. With the EU signing off petrol engines as of 29th June 2022, it’s not long before they learn that bike engines are still petrol powered and screw us over on that too. It’s already the end of air cooled engines, which is why there aren’t many larger capacity ones left. Ducati only has smaller capacity air cooled stuff in their new model lineup. And Moto Guzzi is heading that way soon. Then by 2035 all electric bikes will begin to enter the market in more mainstream markets and brands.

@@andrewhayes4246 my friends old California has 100,000km trouble free. Yet the two Japanese bikes I bought in my life failed, one blew a cam chain in the shop before I even picked it up. The other years later seized an engine due to oil passage blockage on the inaugural ride home from the dealer.

If they drop the stupid A2 power limit they could get away with maybe £1k / 5bhp. They have options. So do RE!

Shorthand for broke down and leaked

Blame the EU for that with EURO 5.

Old bikes were carburetted, this is fuel injected, old bikes were not subjected to any emission norms, but the modern one's do, so they won't sound the same.

That old inaccurate cliche. LUCAS now in German ownership with many thousands of employees according to Wiki. Lift the Bonnet / Hood on many German cars now and some components are clearly marked LUCAS. Bought my first car as a teenager in 1959. My last two weeks ago. An MG ZT 260 with a Mustang V8 power unit. Many of those cars and bikes in between were mostly with Lucas electrics. Never once let me down. A weak battery on my 1961 Triumph Bike was replaced without question by my then local Lucas outfit. Neglected batteries do not last long irrespective of make. I was not aware of such things back then. These guys have an eye for and a vision of the "retro" future. Good for them with those now Indian owned former British Motorcycle marques. Retro bikes have much appeal. Not as much as a genuine BSA Gold Star I remember making that twitter noise from the silencer on the closed throttle over run. That all those years ago was a familiar sound on London's North Circular Road past the world famous ACE CAFE when 100mph plus was quite legal UK speeds back then. Amazed when I heard that "Twitter" again recently when a genuine original pristine BSA Gold Star pulled up alongside my car at the red lights. The rider looked older than me! I was born in the early 1940s! I wound the nearside window down and gave the lucky rider of that Golden Oldie ( pun intended ) a double thumbs up. The rider duly obliged when the green lights showed. A delight to the old ears and eyes. Search the web for images of a very young David Jason on his Motor Cycle in North London ( now Sir Dave and world famous for driving a bright yellow three wheeled van and being the voice of Danger Mouse ) .. I was in good biker company back then ... Try as they may, they can never make 'em like they did back then. Things have really moved on too far. I have bought and ridden many more sophisticated modern machines including Multi Cylinder machines but good as they are, they are not the same as riding a 1960s Triumph Bonneville or BSA Rocket Gold Star. I still prefer nice alloy drum brakes on Motor Cycles. OK Discs hydraulically actuated are more efficient but they are never the same as say 8" Alloy Drums with twin leading shoes cable activated. Proper old school retardation devices with feedback and feeling. Suits this old dinosaurus.. Fings aint what they used to be as we used to say down in Old London town. Sadly nothing lasts forever.

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@@T16MGJ I'm 70 and totally agree with you 👍 those were the good old days.

​@@JamesCouch777 They really were that good weren't they. We were too young to appreciate just how good that was at the time. I now shudder to think of the things I did back then. Like riding my best mate's highly modified BSA Rocket Gold Star past The London Rubber Company Factory makers of contraceptives .. on the North Circular not far from Walthamstow Dog Track with the famous facia which I believe now is all that remains of the dog track now under high density housing. Cranked over on the bend with 120 mph on that chronometric speedo showing, no helmet or gloves, t-shirt and plimsoles ( the "trainers"of the day ). Eyes wet streaming from the slipstream wind at that speed. Too young to understand and like many youngsters thought we would live forever. That highly modified BSA RGS was the most impressive machine I ever rode. That includes Vincents and Hondas fours etc. Sometime later I was all set to buy a CB1000 six cylinder machine .. CASH. Then met a fine young woman who later became my best friend and wife so used that money as a deposit on a house ... better decision looking back and to save more money, got a new Mini 1000 as it was far more economical to run than my larger cars. Far better for getting about the Madhouse traffic that was then London. Now worse. Meeting the right partner can influence things and change the mindset of a lifetime. Like many Londoners, took what has since become known as London Flight. If someone offered me a million quid to spend the rest of my days there, I'd decline that offer. Fings aint what they used to be in the City I once loved. The modest mid-terrace house that my father bought for less than three hundred quid just before the start of WWII, now they change ownership for around a million!

@@BikingChap Hi, look give it a chance! If it fails it deserves to, if it shines it deserves to, Get the price right and it will shine! build quality and reliability seam to be there, time will tell! regards.

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@@antoniovillegas8544 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 friends

Because the majority of people wont be able to afford it , and it appears production is going to be limited, he said in the video its not going to be high volume..

@@JIMWSMITH I think there is another reason entirely. Royal Enfield 650s are sold plenty and at 60 percent of the cost compared to the rest of the world. And I can guarantee you that the Goldie will not sell as well as the interceptor especially in the first few years. It's another reason

Legal issues with the name BSA in India. That's why.

​​​​@@JIMWSMITH On the contrary. The RE 650 twins sold in the UK for 6k quid is sold at less than 3k quid in India. 3k quid is the average monthly salary of a 40 year old mid -level IT guy in India with 12-15 years work experience. And you have millions of them in India. So a month's salary equivalent to the price of a motorcycle is not much by any standards. it's not like one has to save up to buy this motorcycle. If it was a Ducati or MV Agusta then may perhaps a year or two of saving up will be required. That's why RE sells about 1300-1500 units of the RE 650 twins every month in India which is close to the total number of 650 twins sold all over the world over a period of two months. I guess if launched in India the BSA Goldie will be priced similarly.

@Flynn Spunks What does that have to do with the BSA? Hate on a Harley because the sound of a made in India BSA is like an old John Deere lawnmower...Ah ok.

@@BikingChap hahaha 🤣

Good points. The original gold star was a superbike of its day. This is just a trashy imitation.

'reinvented by people who haven't a clue about our British bike history' no need for that assertion

Wishful thinking . Still think its over priced at that ..

@@JIMWSMITH maybe, but if they try for 10k they’ll sell 3 😄

£5500 & if they have tidy up some things by release £6k £6500 max but if bike is same as bike show 6 months ago will have to be cheaper than R.E 650 fit & finish had some rough bits like Radiator plumbing & plastic looking colours on engine but nothing that can't be fixed by time of release.

@@ruahinesrider hope you’re right, love the look of the bike, I have a Triumph Thruxton 1200 and would like another modern classic to compliment it, that said I’m picking up a 1947 Triumph T100 next week, now that is pretty, but will obviously break down at every second lamp post!, bring on a nice cheap beezer 👍

@@1234567marks If it similar priced similar to R.E 650 dumping a 2k NZ dollars at it on a thin Alloy high flow radiator with 81° thermostat & plumbing,Header & de cat, smaller rear shocks,Paint engine multiple colours black will tidy it up & be a great platform for customizing like R.E 650.If it £8500 spend another £500-£850 & buy a Street Twin or Motoguzzi.Time will tell.

Thank you :)

Yes

Single = Character

18 months??????? Maybe? 2024????

I would be more inclined towards the new version than a classic Gold Star, unless I win the lotto of course.

Yes, I did! Lucas Distribution - a contradiction in terms?

Yes, but we cannot pay 1.50 per hour ....

@@JIMWSMITH pay peanuts get mon...... Well you know the rest!

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Modern classics is a company owned by M&M, which is much bigger than Eicher motors.

@@VinayKumar-db4qz it’s not suv my friend it’s bike and m&m rarely builts any bike

@@manish5209mk They have a fleet of bikes, including Jawa, Yezdi and now BSA.

Bizzire, especially after naming other brands they own.

Nice one Jeff, thanks for your compliments too :)

R.E need to redesign that prototype KX Vtwin 838cc & even if they have to put a thin alloy radiator on it similar to Triumphs & increase the cubic capacity to about 900-1000cc. They would have a winner especially in the American market where they've phased out the 883 & 1200 Harley Davidson's.R.E has established themselves for a reliable engine in the new 350 & new 650 twins so a Vtwin would be high demand.

R.E had 2 production lines one for home market & a export & the export is a better product.Also no import tariffs on home built Indian bike.A imported bike like a Triumph, Kawasaki etc is at least twice as much as in UK in India & only a rich man can afford a imported bike with the government tariffs on imports.