Comments on: Rare BSA Gold Star Competition

By: Nigel Fox

Nigel Fox — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:01:08 +0000

They stopped manufacture of the BSA Gold Star in 1962 !

By: Pepper

Pepper — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:31:55 +0000

Beautiful.

By: cwglide

cwglide — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:35:13 +0000

Yah 4Cammer i agree, back in the day 50′s thru 70′s the brits were very innovative in design like the Square Four, the Vincent, Matchless, absolutely. I have always liked them like this BSA, very nicely done!!

By: busfreak

busfreak — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:57:58 +0000

Those Brit bikes sure are neat.

By: 4Cammer

4Cammer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00:52 +0000

The Brits sure could style a bike. Wow, not a line out of place.

By: nicker

nicker — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:24:33 +0000

Cyril,
Thanks for the link.
Those E-bay pics make a great baseline ref. for an OEM configuration.

Can’t imagine what the reserve price would be if $6k didn’t crack it.
To get a heavy price for this unit one would expect to also get a whole bunch of provenanunce.
(like spares, period picture, news paper clippings… etc.)

Lots of these scramblers could be (and still are) found all over CA.
When we were kids a serious racer came with both 350cc and 500cc barrel and piston set to allow entry in two classes. And often two frames, one ridged and one sprung. For the longer, faster tracks like San Jose a ridged frame typically got aluminum rear-axel-extenders.

Picked up a barn-fresh “1958 US Short Curcuit Racer” (in as raced condition) with all the spares for $400 some years back. The real pricey BSA singles are the DBD34 Clubman. Not too many of these around at the time. those ya see now are more than likely converted scramblers.

just a reference point.
-nicker-