Had to smile when you didn't stop at the road junction. I used to ride a Goldie and junctions like that were hell. It could stall at 20mph and dump you in middle with very little chance of restarting the engine. BSA were right to say "not for road use" 😀
Now, that is a real sportsbike! I could imagine me sweatting through the curves changing gears up and down, thinking only at what is the correct moment for a gear change! And where is the sweet spot of the power...
I have tried that, but it didn't help, and I have used tape over the mic for a few years which helps a bit. It is always worse on machines like this, with a 'racy' riding crouch and I think the wind from around the headlamps and clocks has a lot to do with it.
Gold-durn it - hearing aids just about fell out with the wind noise. Being a former owner of a B31 350 and a B33 500cc machine - they were excellent 'thumpers' - this one in the video a bit less arthritic! If you made an error on commentary I couldn't spot it, I just enjoyed the video with the sound turned off and occasionally on. Suggest a new project - sound recording without the excess noise.
G'day Paul, runs well, the owner will be happy, only thing l can tell you did wrong is crossed over to the wrong side of the road in a tight corner, that road would be epic on a dry day my 850 Norton eat it up, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
The engine sounds great. Normally, I would be thinking about how a bike could do with an extra gear above 4th but this bike needs one at the other end of the gearbox. It also helps if you don't get your hands mixed up😉
The audio is a bit rough but at 9.50 your excitement at hitting fourth was perfectly clear. I've never ridden a Goldie but by Xmas day I hope to have my B44 ready for a test ride around the farm. Diolch yn fawr from Shropshire.
Lovely goldie there Paul, with very strange handlebars.. sort of a reverse clip on! Yes, goldies are great fun if you can keep one on the boil. I think at one stage, you were getting a lite excited! 😉 Merry Christmas to you and yours Paul.
Amass start first gear take off,exhilerating 15 miles on those wet roads, but its a smooth operator alrighty, all round well sorted machine paul!👍great video series this.
Quite a different bike comparing this ride to the former one, more torque in the low revs and feeling better accelerating after it finally got to the operating temperature and stopped spitting. Those inclines where you accelerated should help a little with the engine torque / power as well. However it is still hopelessly over geared with this box and I'd just installed 3 teeth smaller rear sprocket to make it better behave on road crossings. This GP carb without idle circuit doesn't help as well. All together a handful in normal traffic. Less bouncy as well so another good result of your efforts. Thank you for very nice series of videos about a bike helping me to familiarize a little with a GoldStar. Aha, your comments were hardly heard because of constant wind buffeting, besides my hearing doesn't get any better with time.
@@martinpelama it would be expensive to change primary gear ratio because of a belt conversion, same with changing gearbox to standard version so the cheapest and fastest solution to get lower gearing would be changing gearing ratio on the rear chain sprockets. To change a front one is lot of work, so rear is much more accessible.
Well I couldn't tell of any mistake in your comments, Missed it completely. Maybe as to which gear you were in at some point? This one was a big transformation from start to finish. From un-rideable to track ready. I'm curious as to how this BSA 350 single compares to the Royal Enfield in power output and responsiveness of the engine? It does seem like the Smiths rev counter is about as much help as the Lucas ammeter. As long as they wiggle, you know something is going on, but hardly an accurate measure!
@@jeremyatkinson4976 I didn't know that. My B31 could handle different sprockets as can my B44. Every day is a school day but what provisions were possible for say a trials Goldie apart from buying a gearbox with totally different ratios, or could they supply a rear brake drum with more or less teeth?
