BSA B31 – Stout fellow
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 80 – first published in 2019. Story: Peter Laverty • Photos: Wally Cox, Chas Rice, OBA archives There was not much to get excited about in Britain in […]
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BSA A75V Rocket 3 5-speed: Going grey
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 85 – first published in 2020. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: OBA There was a lot going on at Small Heath in the early ‘seventies, not all of […]
BSA 441 Victor: The 250 that grew up
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 82 – first published in 2019. Story: Peter Laverty • Photos: Pete Slaughter and OBA archives. When the gritty Jeffrey Vincent Smith (later MBE) annexed the 1964 and 1965 […]
Emu Engineering Empire Twin E120S
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 76 – first published in 2019. Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photography: Sue Scaysbrook Just when you think you’ve completed the story of the range of v-twins built entirely […]
1962 BSA Big Valve Super Rocket
From our Old Bike Archives – Issue 71 – first published in 2018. Story and photos: Jim Scaysbrook BSA 650 twins came in such a varied array of models that there is today, fifty four […]
Bert Flood: “Everything’s a fluke that happens to me”.
Story: Transcribed and edited from an interview with Peter Drakeford in 2007. Photos: Rob Lewis, Bob Cann, Flood archives, OBA archives. These days, monocularity (the state of having vision in only one eye) virtually debars anyone […]
Doug Fraser’s Empire Twin
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Photosmith.com.au , Jim Scaysbrook, Doug Fraser archives Doug Fraser is a BSA man from way back. In the fledgling days of historic racing he campaigned a very rapid B33 BSA and was particularly […]
BSA Gold Star – the legendary model returns
At the Motorcycle Live Show in Coventry, UK on December 4, the Indian Mahindra Group, which now owns the rights to the BSA name, showed the first model to be built since their acquistion of […]
Jack Findlay: Don’t call me Cyril
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Karel Zegers, OBA archives Mike Hailwood once told me that around the original 14 kilometre Spa Francorchamps circuit, there was no one better than Cyril John ‘Jack’ Findlay. That’s high praise […]
Tony McAlpine: The wild colonial boy
Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photos: Byron Gunther, Trevor Evans, Keith Bryen Wallace Anthony, or just plain ‘Tony’ McAlpine, died on the Queensland Gold Coast on September 26th 2005, aged 84. With his passing went perhaps […]
