Hello everyone! I just posted a topic regarding A10 rocker boxes and was told I should probably check in here. I have been a BSA addict since 1957 and have not enter a program to kick the habit. The first bike a yearned to own is a 1962 Super Rocket. With a job at a local drug store that was not going to happen. I ended up with a 1951 mustang that was not running. This bike a pushed more than I rode. It finally was used for several years at which time I traded for a Winchester carbine.
I was out of bikes for quiet a long period. I kept looking for a bike I really wanted to restore. I found an ad in a local paper for a BSA twin. After looking at the bike and determining it was a Road Rocket I told the guy I would return with a trailer and money. When I arrived he had already sold the bike to another person. After some scolding I left empty handed. So, the search continued.
I went to a local bike shop where I was asking if anyone knew of any British bikes for sale. A guy came out of the repair shop and said he had an old single in the back. It did not run and the engine was seized up. Well it wasn't an A10 but it was a 1954 Gold Star. After two year of searching for parts and welding on all the parts that had been cut off (it had been used for flat track racing) I had it totally restored to original. Sadly my daughter was entering college around that time and it was sold in Daytona at auction to finance her education.
I did find my Super Rocket but in mean time a located a 1953 Super Flash. My time was spent hunting down all of the special item used on the Super Flash. That bike was completed about 12 years ago. I am still enjoying it. Since that time I found the RGS that I am currently working on along with the pieces of three more Super Flashes.
My current stable running bikes are. 1953 Super Flash, 1956 Triumph T110, 1954 Black Shadow.
Bikes I am trying to get running:
1951 Daytona rigid frame factory race bike
1956 Gold Star flat track race bike
1953 Super Flash
1954 Triumph T110
1962 Super Rocket
I was trained as a shop and field machinist and still enjoy working to bring these old beasts back to life.
Lloyd Lindsey
