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Steve Wilson rides an ex-AA patrol Beesa, and finds terror and delight — at less than 40 miles an hour! Photos by Garry Stuart I’d never ridden a motorbike and sidecar before. ‘There’s nothing to it,’ grinned the cartoon artist Nick Ward cheerfully – but then he would, wouldn’t he, because a) he ran BSA…

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Some experts consider the Gold Star to be the best bike ever built by BSA. Make up your own mind, after examining our quick fire classic bike guide to the breed… A Bit of Background We’re all probably familiar with the charismatic postwar bikes, but the Gold Star first arrived in the years leading up…

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Jonathan Hoare meets three BSA twins (and a Bantam) and revels in that old Miller magic at the Manor I never realised that the supposedly humble BSA could be quite so glamorous. Just look at that glorious gold on their Golden Flash and the pearlescent green on the A7 Shooting Star (the term ‘metallic’ came…

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Phil has spent months and months building his ideal 500cc single off-roader into Gold Star guise. Now NVNL takes it for a spin around the block… Apparently the time has come to put a few thoughts on electronic paper about Phill’s B31. I’d followed the build process avidly through this very website, and as an…

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After months of work, Philip Rashleigh’s scrambler-special is coming home and it just needs an MoT and registration to hit the road… Quite a few people have contacted Roy, who’s been building the engine for me, since they’ve read these articles [Potential advertisers please note! RM] and they want him to build a bike similar…

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When Geoff Reid bought a cheap restoration project, he wasn’t expecting to unravel the working history of a 250cc police machine. Classic bikes tend to bring you more than you bargained for… How do you while away a spare half hour at work? The answer is simple. If there is no one around, why not…

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The end of Philip Rashleigh’s scrambler-special project is in sight. But no matter how close you think you might be to actually finishing a rebuild, there’s always more to do than you might imagine… A new problem had shown itself, how to get the rolling chassis to Bedfordshire for the minimum amount of cost. There…

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At last! Philip Rashleigh can get his scrambler special engine assembled… The bare engine cases had been sent to Roy the engineer what seemed like a long, long time ago. I had cleaned them and inspected the alloy (as mentioned in a previous instalment) but they really needed a good clean. There was what seemed…

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Philip Rashleigh has worked for months to turn a big pile of bits into a replica Gold Star scrambler. Getting the engine sorted out hasn’t been entirely straightforward… This is the interesting part. It’s a long and sometimes confusing story. I think I had better start by telling you how I had planned to build…

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He’s nearly ready to put his bitsa Beeza back together again, but Phillip Rashleigh’s project bike has turned out to be just a little bit different to his original intentions. Gold Star scrambler, anyone?… As a restoration proceeds, plans often change. I had planned to use the original B31 crank, however I was offered a…

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