New BSA Gold Star - Director Of BSA Motorcycles Tells More

The New BSA Gold Star is now revealed and the Director of BSA Motorcycles Ashish Joshi, tells us more details on BSA's plans for the model and it's manufacture. This video contains additional launch footage.
The launch preview event was held at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
Here's the next video in this series with the Director of BSA showing us around the new bike after it's launch: • New BSA Gold Star Moto...
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[@kevinmcdonald6446]

Great job! India is saving the soul of motorcycling with RE and now BSA. Hope to see you in the USA.

[@ogribiker8535]

And Norton !

[@blueturborider]

And jawa

[@royarnab22]

And Yezdi !

[@martinhambleton5076]

Don't forget Norton!

[@jjrider6758]

@Trevor Wood Well Trevor, that's still a while off yet but don't worry because as soon as I've become Imperial Emperor that's the first law I'm going to repeal..

[@slartybartfarst9737]

Most bike clubs are 25% Enfields, smiling owners who have not had to sell the family fortunes to own and run them. BSA could not be in better hands, India still a place that understands commonsense engineering heritage and making motorcycles that are just fun. That Gold Star looks spot on.

[@tajmohammed7492]

Everybody is jealous of bullet. This is a clever strategy of mahindra to get a piece of the pie . Enfield bullet is the only true British bike rest are fake .

[@manin4568]

Do u think it will beat Enfields?

[@slartybartfarst9737]

@@manin4568I doubt it, the Enfield twin is a subtle blend of fun and usable 270 deg crank smoothness, difficult trick to match with a single, depend son price but i reckon it will be more than Enfield 650

[@aaronkeown1396]

Glad we don't have to kick it over Will feel all warm and fuzzy pushing the start button

[@burtvhulberthyhbn7583]

22,000+ miles on my Enfield 650 and only a burnt tail light bulb so far. India is making quality bikes that otherwise wouldn't be built.

[@geoffhalsey2184]

If it goes as well as it looks, they'll have a winner on their hands.

[@saranbhatia8809]

Allready feeling so excited about this launch after having retained a 1956 BSA swing arm with me.... it's feeling which is difficult to describe but anxiously looking forward to one offered in India.....thanks to the team for doing a excellent job!

[@VinayKumar-db4qz]

This is the same company which resurrected Jawa and Yezdi motorcycles in India.

[@manin4568]

I thought those resurrected models will fail but its doing not bad either

[@bikahjoeUK]

I love it! A true thumper - can’t wait to hear what it sounds like. And with the big boys of Mahindra behind it, you know they’ve done their homework.

[@MrLeslloyd]

How do you know it's a thumper , it may end up sounding like a Honda with short stroke and little real appeal .

[@TheRealChetManley]

@@MrLeslloyd it’s a 500cc single cylinder, it’s a thumper

[@CLK944]

@@TheRealChetManley better yet, its actually 650cc, a guaranteed thumper.

[@geraldscott4302]

It will probably not sound anything like the original. The original bikes had long stroke engines, which produce a sound completely different to the sewing machine sound of modern short stroke engines.

[@savage22bolt32]

@@geraldscott4302 Well if it's torque curve takes off at a lowly 1800 RPM, it must have a pretty decent stroke. (I forgot which video said that about the torque/RPM. I've watched a few on this bike & hope to lay eyes on one in '22 over here in USA)

[@michaelarchangel1163]

Good luck to them. I learned to ride in 1973, off road, with a 1953 BSA A7 Star Twin which had pulled a sidecar for 20 years, before I bought it from a pal for £10. It had no silencers or foam on the seat and a pal and I were the bane of the Forestry Commission and peoples' eardrums. His Triumph 500 had no pipes whatsoever and looked like a Spitfire after dark.

[@kilburncounty]

British design tradition, Indian manufacturing know-how and entrepreneurship. The future is bright!

[@Lon3wolf13]

Again, a big thank you to India for reviving another iconic motorcycle name👏👏👏

[@patrickdoake6022]

A lot of excitement here in UK I think thank you mahindra

[@royarnab22]

My first bicycle here in India during 80's was a BSA :) So the gratitude is mutual.

[@govindsridhar6270]

@@royarnab22 same here

[@Vijayyelilarasi]

We Indians innately love British motorcycles just as much as an enthusiast from Britain would. Today Norton, Royal Enfield and bsa falling in the hands of Indians is a beautiful come around in the relationship between the two nations i think. Both nations are involved together again but it’s just laughs and enthusiasms shared this time.

[@the.communist]

N money

[@bikahjoeUK]

Totally agree. It’s so great that the big Indian companies have got behind the old British brands now and given them new life. All power to this relationship!

[@davethomas14]

Don't put British names on your cheap piles of crap . Keep them for your own dusty , crap roads and chaotic roads. Don't bring the crap here. We were a proud country once , don't need your cheap metal, cheap labour rubbish

[@philbytx]

Dave Thomas' rant is entirely ignorant. The RE's are a decent bike at a good price point. I am 74 and was a Rocker back in the 60's and worked on most Brit iron. I had Norton road bikes and a Manx 500 race bike. I speak from first hand experience..what does he speak from???

[@davethomas14]

@@philbytx I have rode lots of Brit bikes. And the emphasis is "Brit" you fool. British workers , British bikes. Not stupid idiots riding Indian TAT thinking it's a BSA

[@petewebb6952]

Like many of my age, I started out on a BSA two stroke 175cc Bantam, over 52 years ago. So it feels natural to be sentimental about the BSA brand. I’d be curious to try a new one…

[@rommelreroma7937]

Excited to see it here in Philippines. And looking forward to own one of those great retro bikes. Especially that 650 cc's machine.

[@fourstrokeengineers7475]

Very happy to see this legend back in the market, and as usual it is the tough competitor of Royal Enfield. ("THE THUMPING Legends") ❤️🔥

[@andrewhamilton-gill]

Fantastic news I’m sure with the modern Indian input majority of the engine oil will stay within the engine and not on the floor like my varied originals.

[@markb3180]

Congratulations and the best of luck for the future of BSA motorcycles.

[@johnmartin7158]

Most definitely

[@joereedmusic9853]

So looking forward to the return of BSA. A 600cc single is going to be a torque monster of a bike if they do the tuning right.

[@georgeprime2249]

I used to have a 600 single. It was the M20

[@mred7030]

he said 650 , even better !

[@savage22bolt32]

Plus he said they can get a lot more out of it. I'll buy one, and two years later they'll dangle a cooler, higher performance model in front of me. Love to see a Scrambler version!

[@daveh453]

@@georgeprime2249 m20 was a 500cc side valve engine / m21 600cc side valve

[@georgebamforth7372]

Great to see BSA back with an awesome bike but I can't help but think it should have been a twin 650.

[@jamespower2984]

Yes I agree, but it would be another Royal Enfield 650 with a BSA 650 badge from the same factory,

[@shalinmodi6748]

Mr. Joshi presented mahindra really nice.

[@savage22bolt32]

The first bike I ever rode was a BSA. I was 6 years old then, 1960!

[@jahiol2579]

First motor vehicle I rode was an Ariel 3 in 1974 at Brugh By Sands I was 7 years old

[@limyrob1383]

Wish them well. Bikes look great. I fondly recall the launch of the 1971 range.

[@crieff1sand2s]

Great to see the old names coming back..... 👍

[@etienneladangh760]

Cannot wait to admire them in a showroom and later for a test ride....

[@felipedourado5721]

Since the 80ies I became skeptical about motorcycle design because they were becoming more and more something that resembles a transformer robot full of plastic. Then, in the 90ies, came the Monster, from Ducati. It obviously tried to bring back the glory of naked bikes but, in my opinion, failed because they remained, let's say, too modern, at least for my taste. So did the Japanese manufactors who were bringing back naked bikes but also too modern on their apearence. Then, finally, in early 2000s Triumph ressurected the Bonnie! It was great because they were the first factory that understood that were plenty of motorcyclists that wanted bikes that look like a bikes. I mean, classic styled motorcycles without having to be cruisers. I, myself, for the last 16 years stuck with the too overpriced Harleys because they were faithful to their design roots. But since the launch of the Bonnie T120, I was tempted to jump out the "Harley boat" and try other style of bike that could keep the charm of yore. Then I test rode one of them and it was a disappointing experience not because the bike was bad, but it was so good that it lost it's soul becoming some sort of transvestite, I mean, a totally modern motorcyle dressed as a vintage one, and they became too expensive. When Royal Enfield launched the Interceptor, of course, it caught my eye. Last year I test rode one of them and I got very pleased because they were beautiful and they were as modern and reliable as a contemporary motorcycle shoud be (good brakes, etc), but without letting it's soul to "evaporate". And they are afordable! Now we see BSA coming back, not just as stunning looking bike, but with the promise of offering the traditional character and feel to their riders and, as it was told on the interview, at a sensible price, just like RE! Finally motorcycles are coming back to it's roots. Finally one may think about riding something that has charm, tradition and heritage without being entrapped on the cruiser segment and being "robbed" by that "premium brand" marketing bulls**t! Hope BSA arrive soon here in Brazil. I'm pretty sure it will be so, or more, welcomed than RE. Peace to everyone. ✌

[@JamesCouch777]

I agree with you. I bought one of the modern Bonnevilles but it just didn't have the charm of the old ones. So I built a 1971 Bonneville 😁.

[@felipedourado5721]

@@redtobertshateshandles I think that as a motorcycle that was responsible to bring back the naked design, but by being still conected to the "race craze" that assauted motorcycle industry since the late 70ies, the first generations of Monsters were on that unconfortable position of being kind a pivot. I mean, not so pure "street racing" machines, not so pure nakeds, just like the bikes that we nowadays call "classics" once were. That's their "problem", if you will. They were a somewhat "mixed beast". But I got to be fair, they've played a big role on persuading people that fairingless motorcycles still had place and appeal, so, as much as I don't love them, I do respect their historical importance. But I'm only talking about their first generations. More recently it seems that Ducati guys have lost their sense o "purity", or simplicity, and even their Sacrambler are too modern to be considered, at least for me, as something that fits into the modern classics category. The Italians that I like the most are people from Mandello del Lario. I think Guzzis are the best looking bikes, on classic regard, at the moment. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Peace from Brazil. ✌

[@felipedourado5721]

@@JamesCouch777 Hope you have the most pleasant times riding an original one. A true classic. May the gods o motorcycling bless you and your reborn steed. Peace from Brazil. ✌

[@JamesCouch777]

@@felipedourado5721 thank you and same to you. Keep on riding.

[@parsivalshorse]

Sounds like you want all bikes and brands to look the same and stay that way forever. That would be the death of the entire industry.

[@leonruthcooke2959]

I can see room in my garage for one of these alongside, my 60's and 70's Beeza's, Fantastic!

[@stevendavies8496]

I look forward to seeing and probably buying one ,,all the best for the launch

[@martinhambleton5076]

👏👏👏👏👏😃 Very, very well done! Totally brilliant! Thank you to all involved!

[@GK1976A]

I don't understand why someone in the UK didn't buy the BSA brand and create some beautiful bikes where they should be made, ideally near the original factory in Birmingham. I haven't got a problem with the Indian made bikes as I'm currently looking at buying a Royal Enfield and they are still excellent value even if the price keeps creeping up. If Morgan (based in Malvern) can continue to sell quality hand built cars that people can't get enough of, I don't see why we can't have a motorcycle equivalent. It seems to me that business men and women in the UK just can't be arsed to do anything unless it makes huge amounts of money for very little effort.

[@ethanhunt356]

Waiting for the launch in India💕

[@davewarner8401]

I think I will look at owning one. I hope to see a dealership opportunity 🙏 I hope there are enough oldies to go out and buy one. I wish them all the success in the world.

[@jjrider6758]

Great to see the BSA badge on a new bike again and the styling cues from the original Gold Star are pleasingly obvious, especially on the engine - They certainly look the part and if they're built as well as the new Royal Enfields they should be a really solid reliable bike.. I think one of these Gold Star singles and an Interceptor twin would be a fantastic garage full, unless of course Mahindra have a modern version of the 650 twin Rocket Gold Star planned ? !..

[@MadChalet]

It's good to hear that there will be production in England (hailing from the US, here). While they discuss when they'll appear they don't say where. In what showrooms do you figure they'll appear? The exhaust header .... double walled? It looks rather large; perhaps that's needed for the large cylinder volume? Lastly, I'm guessing there's a 'bread box' and catalytic converter secretly tucked away under the engine - that muffler certainly can't be handling all the muffling.

[@PhilipBallGarry]

Yes, I saw them yesterday. The large diameter exhaust is in fact a chrome heat shield. It does not fully encase the entire circumference of the exhaust pipe underneath. The routing of the exhaust through the cat is disguised like it is on the Triumph twins. Fit and finish look good on the preproduction models. It would be nice to see the radiator shrunk down a little though - perhaps by making it longer.

[@MadChalet]

@@PhilipBallGarry I had feeling that it was a cover rather than a pipe - to me that's unfortunate. I have similar thoughts about the radiator - from the pics it looks obtrusive, like Triumph did a better job of integrating it.

[@rudolphpyatt4833]

If you get them to the USA, they will sell. Love the looks of the new Gold Star.

[@theantichrome9842]

I can't wait to see what new small arms they introduce.

[@subhashisroy2244]

BSA nostalgia prevails in india. Our grandfather & fathers used lots of that bike in 60s to 70s.

[@DSullivan001]

Looks fantastic!

[@williamtaylor874]

awesome job bsa lives again !

[@wozza59]

Beautiful machine.

[@goomtoob8714]

i am very keen to see these down in Australia, my late father always told storys of his after british service days on his pride and joy BSA500 Gold Star , so i'm considering buying one just to be like him and hopefully relive some of his memory's, yes i realise the original's were british made, but at least the name continues.

[@peter7624]

Looks lovely. Wonder if they've managed to give it the exhaust sound of the originals. The sound of a giant snoring!

[@r1273m]

Needs Castrol R so it SMELLS like the original also.

[@ripmax333]

“It will be sensibly priced” I really hope so, I dont wish a sensibly priced like triumph or Harley.

[@bsimpson6204]

Or a Norton!

[@the.communist]

If its made in uk, itll be expensive

[@kyakaruvlogs2784]

£5000-£8000

[@Hsp44]

@@the.communist it’ll be made in india like interceptor

[@stevefox8605]

Style looks spot on, very handsome indeed. Good interview, thank you 👍👍

[@johnbirch4089]

Spot on. Sorry, I’d say like my school reports say, could try harder.

[@stevefox8605]

@@johnbirch4089 well I like it. Wouldn't swap my new speed twin for it, but would make an excellent second bike. Can't really see how they could make it more like the DBD , given that it has to conform to modern homologunation laws world wide.

[@georgeprime2249]

At least you will hear it coming up the road.

[@davidcox2130]

Used to ride a1959 BSA Gold Star in the early 60’s. Love the look of the newt BSA. Can’t wait till they come to Canada.

[@TheAbhinav1001]

The look is really good. The price is the point. You are rivalling directly with RE650 twin. But you are a single cylinder motorcycle. Hope you price it right... ❤️

[@HSJ1076]

I am sure Mahindra own, Pinifarina, Ssanyong, BSA and Tata own Land Rover, Jaguar and of course there is RE all the British heritage coming full circle, being upheld by India or Indians!!!

[@martinhambleton5076]

Does anyone know, where and when I can buy one? I am in the Midlands. In love with the Goldstar.

[@alanshaw8949]

Looks are one thing, how it rides and performs and handles will determine if it sells. If it makes it to Australia I would give it a go.

[@russbetts1467]

I had a 1959 DBD34 Clubman's 500cc, with RRT2 Gearbox. I sold it in 1974, because it needed a major rebuild and I couldn't get all the parts I needed, to do a full restore. The biggest problem was rust in the frame and I couldn't find anyone to refurbish it. Registration Number was 776 HPC. I still miss it.

[@robgrant1540]

Love that new bike. What a star! A Gold Star!

[@I-am-not-a-number]

Bombay Small Arms.

[@classicbikeman]

🤣🤣

[@felipedourado5721]

😂😂😂

[@kyakaruvlogs2784]

😂😂😂

[@mohba01]

if it makes you feel good, the ones sold in the uk will be assembled in Birmingham, old BSA factory.

[@swapnilpitale5237]

❤️❤️❤️ BSA welcome to India ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐

[@ianwilson9353]

I’m so exited about this😃😃😃!

[@user-cn8vb9hh5z]

Great news

[@bebewang.4882]

When are they coming to India? Can't wait to explore these motorcycles!!!!

[@madbadger85]

At least it won’t leak oil, break your legs trying to start it and spending every evening tinkering with it for a hopeful ride on a weekend!!!

[@geneahart5607]

I am so pumped about this motorcycle

[@tyee4u]

Did the radiator come out of a Toyota Corolla ?

[@johnhenshaw7655]

That’s what motorcycle should look like

[@normasnockers323]

they look gorgeous

[@spraudoggy]

Glad to see this. More competition is a good thing for all motorcyclists.

[@claretbuck1882]

Awesome top news 🇬🇧💪🏻

[@geraldscott4302]

They have tube type tires. HUGE MISTAKE. I can't help but laugh when I see a bike with EFI, ABS, front and rear disc brakes, and still has tube type tires. Tube type tires are probably the most dangerous thing on any motorcycle that has them. First, when a tube type tire is punctured, it almost always results in a blowout, which is definitely not something you want to happen at high speed. Second, if you survive the blowout, you are still stranded, because unlike a tubeless tire, repairing a tube type tire requires that you jack up the bike, support it securely, remove the wheel, then remove the tire from the wheel, remove the punctured tube and replace it with a new one, put the new tube/tire back on the wheel, and put the wheel back on the bike. Even if you are capable of doing this, you have to carry a LOT of tools and parts to do it, and it takes a long time. I have done it many times on dirt bikes, but it is just about impossible on a heavy street bike. You will likely need a tow truck. In contrast, when a tubeless tire is punctured, it loses air VERY slowly, if at all. Often the object that punctured it seals the puncture. All you need to do to fix a punctured tubeless tire is to put a plug in it, air it up, and be on your way. There is no reason to use tube type tires on modern bikes. Way back in 1986, Honda designed a wire spoke wheel for use with tubeless tires for the 1986-1987 Rebel 450. A cheap little 450 twin only made for 2 years. I think it is absolutely criminal that manufacturers are still using tube type tires. All bikes designed for street use should be DOT required to have tubeless tires. I do have a Royal Enfield Bullet with tube type tires, I don't ride it on the highway, and I stay close enough to home that I am within the towing limit of my roadside assistance plan.

[@huudielbo728]

Just like a push-bike, tyre lever, puncture outfit and pump up. Job done! Bikes had tyre levers as part of their tool kit.

[@geraldscott4302]

@@huudielbo728 Just try doing that beside a freeway with traffic going by at 90 mph, or out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere in 115 degree heat. Yes, it can be fairly easy at home, with a bike lift and all the tools. But flats rarely happen at home.

[@sudarshanpoojary6862]

Ashish Sir desperately waiting for the exhaust note of this beast, Please share a video on that, lots of love from Mumbai, India ❤️🙏🏽

[@benzigerantony6185]

Best wishes,,Greetings from Kochi

[@poatemaine6200]

nice to see someone is showing some love to big thumpers now that RE is out of that game. Imo there is too much talk of branding from corporate execs in suits and too little from designers & engineers.

[@kevindarkstar]

It's all very promising, however I'll wait for the actual road tests, to see if they can match the results of royal enfield, if they can and they price it well, then they could have the same success as RE!

[@sergeantmasson3669]

My first motorcycle was a BSA 650 lightning.

[@jamescourt4703]

Hope they produce a replica rocket 3! They were awsome in their day!

[@demzunoplayer]

Want one!

[@paulbrunton877]

Excellent news.

[@Stpaddy55001]

looking forward to seeing it at NEC

[@robinthing]

Good wishes

[@michaelcarmean4906]

💥 Bring It…Back💥

[@derekcollins1972]

Beautiful machine. Make a twin and I'm in.

[@bsimpson6204]

4:44 Available from Spring 2022! and sensibly priced

[@PrimoStracciatella]

Take that with a grain of salt!

[@bsimpson6204]

@@PrimoStracciatella we’ll see won’t we, I can’t wait to read more about it, it’s officially launched tomorrow morning on the BSA website 👍

[@madcarew5168]

Wots goin on...it looks like a real proper bike!!!

[@specialse]

i want one of them !!!

[@johnhawthorn7703]

I had 4 BSA bikes best one was a BSA barracuda 250 brilliant machine.All my BSA Bikes leaked oil usually out the crank case

[@tigerward88]

Well done INDIA looks great

[@mamutheraconteur3331]

Nice launching india soon

[@ix-Xafra]

My old man had a 650 Golden Flash!

[@markmathews6876]

great news

[@aaronkeown1396]

650 single will pull down low be a good change on the twin

[@jahiol2579]

50 years since BSA missed the all important US short selling season and set off a bizarre chain of events that brought the entire group to it's knees.

[@dufus7396]

Next month a styling clone of the Brough Superior will be released it also wont actually be a Brough Superior

[@2DaysAgoISawAVehicle]

Lovely...I just can’t enjoy a LC engine..I guess it’s the future but man if it was oil/air cooled..much much better..for me

[@martinhambleton5076]

Please, please, please. Do a swept back exhaust for the Goldie. 😘

[@homesynchometvinternet2539]

Beautiful bsa👍

[@mikedembek379]

Great news!

[@razor1uk610]

So, is this partnered in some way with the BSA Motorcycles of Southampton (who used to use Yamaha 500cc dirtbike's air-cooled single engine,) but was the continuation of/from the old company in or near the old Supermarine factory grounds ??

[@Welderady]

Well, that’s good news !

[@johnhenke6475]

So Royal Infield bought the BSA badge? Hope it's a good scooter. I love the R I's.

[@krtt750]

Once "The Jewel of the British Empire" India, is ironically perpetuating England's past. Which included it's brutal colonial rule of India and the future Pakistan. Good for them. To forgive the past and in sense, and then embrace it.

[@patlamitte8668]

Absoluty beautiful ! Where is the kick starter ?

[@Hassan-nb2uc]

Put the vintage taillamp

[@JamesCouch777]

👍👍 great looking bike 😊

[@fasthracing]

Make them in the UK I'm in now that Triumph makes most of its bike in Thailand.

[@the.communist]

If its made in uk, expect a high purchase price. I rather is made in the third world

[@fasthracing]

@@the.communist Not me.

[@billycaspersghost7528]

It is made in India ,by an Indian company . Mahindra.

[@PLINKER]

I would like to see a new version of BSA Lightening, only maybe 850 cc or more still parallel twin! Thanks!

[@fatehabbas110]

Did he just said 650 cc single cylinder ?

[@ChicagoJeans]

Yes