The BSA A7-A10 Forum
Bikes, Pictures, Stories & more => Chat, Offtopic & Everything Else => Topic started by: Billybream on 01.08. 2025 19:35
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Well what a surprise, not keen on the name, but looks a good package at a very competitive price £3500 approx
https://youtu.be/AxnQWJ5IJ9E?si=uS4QKyWA7OYBljbq
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Well what a surprise, not keen on the name, but looks a good package at a very competitive price £3500 approx
https://youtu.be/AxnQWJ5IJ9E?si=uS4QKyWA7OYBljbq
Out of interest, does the UK bsa club regard the new BSA bikes as eligible for membership/rallies etc?
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The new Bantam would be an option for RE 350 and GB350 customers.
I'd like a new 650 Gold Star but they aren't available in Australia. *sad2*
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Well, the lad waxed lyrical, that's for sure! I'm sure it's a fine thing - and it's a very fair introductory price. Whether 'Bantam' means to the target market what it means to those of us of a certain age is another question perhaps. But if you've bought a name, might as well use it I suppose.
Good Luck to 'BSA' as they extend their range though - it's a competitive market place, that's for sure, with a proliferation of smaller capacity machines out there.
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Yet another of those "I might buy one of them when I'm too old to kick" bikes.
Still an ugly little sod though.
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The BSAOC welcome the modern bikes.
I'm pretty keen to test ride the Bantam. I find my Mahindra Gold Star a bit too big and heavy. The Bantam is based on a Jawa four-stroke which Mahindra have been making for quite a time. The bike should be well sorted.
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Well what a surprise, not keen on the name, but looks a good package at a very competitive price £3500 approx
https://youtu.be/AxnQWJ5IJ9E?si=uS4QKyWA7OYBljbq
Out of interest, does the UK bsa club regard the new BSA bikes as eligible for membership/rallies etc?
Yes. it does.
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The BSAOC welcome the modern bikes.
I'm pretty keen to test ride the Bantam. I find my Mahindra Gold Star a bit too big and heavy. The Bantam is based on a Jawa four-stroke which Mahindra have been making for quite a time. The bike should be well sorted.
Yes, the Jawa that Mahindra have been making for a while, rebadged. As with the 'Gold Star', I don't like the name, but that doesn't stop it being a good bike (if it is a good bike!).
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I see that BSA (Mahindra) have decided to call their 650 scrambler version of their 'Gold Star' a B65. I wonder why they haven't called it the Gold Star scrambler? Maybe Mahindra don't know that the scrambles version of the Gold Star was a very successful motorcycle...... or maybe Mahindra are getting the message, at last, that calling the Mahindra 650 a Gold Star is blasphemy. I would apply a similar sentiment to the inappropriately named 'Bantam'. What does it have in common with a Bantam, apart from everything that is common to all motorcycles, e.g. two wheels and a pair of handlebars? I like the look of it and hope it is a success.
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Trouble is most that remember the Bantam as a two stroke. 50's & 60's young fellas learnt on one. I'd love one for local rides.
Cheers
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The BSA ends in 1973 all others are Bullshit with an BSA Badge...my opinion.
When i cant use the Kickstart there is the Possiblety to mount a Starter...GrußJens
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Well, that's pretty clear jelo! There are quite a few who might agree with that.
Does the same go for Triumph and Norton, and other resurrections?
Half of me says 'Yes' to what you say. The other half says 'They're motorcycles, we need to encourage people to ride them buy them and love them regardless'.
Today, I was out for a couple of hundred km with friends from a local club. There were about 50 of us.
Top-end attractions: a 4G Square Four Ariel, a G15 Matchless, a couple of very pretty pre-war singles, a tasty period Italian or two - Laverda, 'Cati, Guzzi sort of thing.
Mid-range attractions: standard British iron, Trihards, Beesas, AMC various and a selection of ubiquitous airhead BMWs.
But also, and I'm not going to say 'Low-range', things we'd have barred a few years back. Makes (or 'throw-togethers' like so many marques in the history of motorcycling) I've never heard of, ridden by folk who've either had to 'go lighter' (regardless of electric start advantage) owing to age and infirmity, or folk who have what they can afford because they are young and not deep of pocket.
My hope is that clubs like the ones I'm in open their arms more widely to people with 'ineligible' machines in the hope they'll migrate into the world we love, of 'eligible' machines. But even if they don't, they are still 'motards' and worthy of embrace. My son-in-law has just ditched a very unreliable modern Trihard Tiger for a much better KTM. Both are totally plug-ugly to me. Almost all modern machines are, the new Bantam included. Very few exceptions, trying to think of one. Oh, maybe the new generation of retro 900 Kwackers, possible replacement for my XJR Yam in due course I'm thinking.
But so what to the lot of it? - Two Wheels Good.
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I am in favour of the Mahindra BSAs being eligible for BSA club members, and I would not rule out owning one (but that would only happen if I could not ride or maintain an old one). If you look at a brand like Ducati, the owners of modern bikes often have a classic one in the shed as well, which can only be good for keeping demand for the old bikes alive.
My thoughts are with the way manufacturing has developed, with assembly and parts done overseas, let alone listings on multiple stock markets the exact origin of a bike has become difficult to establish. I can only see that getting harder.
Some examples (of many) my 2010 Triumph Street Triple, was made in UK, but Triumphs parallel twins of that era were made in Thailand.
My 2023 Honda CRF300 is made in Thailand *conf*
My 2009 KTM is made in Austria but its 2019 “replacement” the KTM 790 was (allegedly) made in china (but I have yet to see conclusive proof of that, but many blame it’s camshaft quality issues on china) …..and KTM part own a factory with CFMoto that assembles bikes in china. Some CFmotos have the KTM 790 engine, made in china under a licence agreement. To cap it all KTM have pretty much just been bought by BAJAJ of india *conf*. BAJAJ have been making the KTM 390 range for KTM for many years.