And then, the Japanese arrived. I swapped my Sunbeam scooter for a 250 Yamaha

What i love about These Trials in those day is the straight forward nature of most Sections which were all about maintaining forward motion and not stopping and starting the way much of our sport is today it puts the element on ridiing , riders still lose marks and it shows why their was much more interchange of riders between the sports jeff smith absolutely flying through in fact virtualy all the Trials stars of those days were competent all round riders. Wonderful stuff.

Enjoyed that. Good wee film.

Delightful old film

My stepdad is Mick bonkey Bowers , do you have any videos with him riding in at all please ?

I do like the two-stroke 25:1 smoke trails.

Hi, ive been looking at doing a BSA Story and would love to use some of the old film you have rescued, im more than happy to credit you, and i will include links, is that ok? thanks

I have followed Geoff smith throw trials and moto cross best there has ever been

Love the historical stuff 👏🇺🇸

Classic i was expecting sammy miller but this looks even before his time my dad rode trials in the 60 s in aus before i was born and he wore a similar outfit . 👍👏

Got to love the combination at 12:45, 2 adults, 2 children and a caravan! That's working hard. Looks like a Panther.

1961?

Gordon Jackson was forced to give up motorcycle trials by a miserable wife. He went on to do car trials, with her as a passenger. He didn't win until she was replaced.

Who ever had the idea for sidecar trials 🤦‍♂️. It does/did nothing to improve the breed

Everything is white and British.....look at our country now

All of this is now gone and Birmingham is a foreign dump.

Is that Frank Wilkins and Kay at 6.30?

Those great lumps off metal,every rider feet up,clean through section... Proper riders.

Just a tiny part of the once massive BSA empire still stands if you know where to look. Of the local populace these days the less said the better.

Wicked stuff even though everyone looked a bit sick at times 🤣

Eynsford Ford. Recognised it straight away and used in another AMC publicity shot with a Twin. Only just down the road from Gordon’s Farm. Been through it many times

You could always pick it up and continue!!

Isn't it amazing.....a small tumple today would do £3000 worth of damage to the plastics😢

Wonderful!

Great video, rather an abrupt ending, I suppose this must be Australia in the 1950,s?

the downfall was not helped by the Dockers

I was born down the road from the factory & sometimes i'd watch them testing the Motorcycles on the test track & not knowing that in a few years later the factory would close forever

I rember Aurther Lampkin at the motocross tracks 😮

Ah, yes. When we froze our nuts in wet wool, cardboard waxed cotton and sodden leather boots. When the men were men- and so were the women!

Another fine old film spoilt by false colour.

Old TV docus make me laugh, besides, that is not Ted Bonner at the rifle range 0:40 !!

...and within a decade it was all gone. What did our leaders do to this once great country - now an outcast and international embarassment.

Motocross for fat old guys. Those were the days.

"We never had it so good" just when this film was made, biodegradable packaging too. How far we've come?Oh dear..

Great vid. pity someone had to spoil it with fake colour.

Brilliant film. 👍

As a young man I went to a motor cycle shop which was full of brand new bsa I wanted a new royal star 500 but had to settle on a second hand triumph not enough money thanks for the memories.

Makes you wonder which was the most difficult obstacle; the terrain or the spectators?!

Marvellous stuff ! I particularly liked - early 'engine mapping' at 2:31 , presumably cleaner air back then at 4:09 , the clutch and brake levers forged from 'drillium' , and perhaps the fore-runner of the 'splat' at 16:49 ? All good advice on technique that still applies today .

music from laurel and hardy! those sidecars looked like hard work ;) great skills on show.

Meanwhile, in Japan,......

did i see my A10 super rocket engine being built up ?

Thanks for the memories I raced bsa at the scrambles and a 350 bsa gold star on the short circuit as a young man.

Another brilliant video..The telegram boys on their red bantams...They use to ground the bottom of the leg shields and "hop" around the corners...Thanks...Bought back happy memories...

Wonderful, brilliant video...thanks!

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My father owned one of these, bought from Dawsons of Nottingham when they were demobbed by the AA. His, and others I have seen, all had a BLT registration. Dawsons took the large AA emblems off the sidecars and painted all the yellow bits black - with the exception of the petrol tank which was finished in red. He would never trust overhead valve engines, nor coil ignition and the AA M21 offered the best of both worlds being side valve with manual magneto. The dynamo was also supplemented by an alternator which charged a heavy duty battery and, being a cautious man, he appreciated this feature too. The AA bikes also had decent forks and goldstar-sized front brakes. With his own tools in the sidecar he used it for many years to get him to work. Of course, the RAC used, the perhaps posher, ES2 Nortons for their outfits....................

As with all british automotive companies making rubbish now unsurprisingly as with all of them gone down the pan due to poor quality and crap product

No matter how much they promoted the scooter no one took to them.Poor BSA.😢

No more British motorcycles, cars,toys,toy trains, sci-fi,planes, their managers ran all those companies into the ground.