Old Classic Motorcycles : BSA A10 Golden Flash - For Sale

BSA A10 Classic Motorcycles

BSA A10 Golden Flash

Old Classic Motorcycles BSA A10 Golden Flash - For Sale
bsa a10 for sale plunger no letter
conditions in accordance photo
serious interest contact 0858-8228-2779

BSA A10 Golden Flash history

So it was with BSA in October 1949 when the firm announced the 650cc (actually 646cc) A10 Golden Flash which would be on sale for the 1950 season.

Triumph was at the root of BSA’s panic—or, at least, haste. Edward Turner’s pre-war 500cc 5T Speed Twin had, way back in 1937, set the pace for a new era of parallel twin motorcycling—a pace that was about to be reset with the imminent launch of the 1949, 34bhp, 650cc 6T Thunderbird.

Not that BSA had been entirely caught napping. For three years, the company had been marketing a rival parallel—and not-quite-so-speedy—twin in the shape of the 62mm x 82mm 500cc A7 (66mm x 72.6mm from 1951).

Launched in 1946 (from what was essentially a 1939 design), the A7 was a robust and attractive rigid-framed bike designed and developed essentially by Herbert Perkins and David Munro, but with engineering cues from Val Page who had masterminded the (arguable) predecessor of the A7, the 1933 Triumph 6/1.

And then there was Edward Turner himself. Bombed out of Triumph’s Priory Street factory following the infamous raid on Coventry (14th November 1940), and with time on his hands before the new Meriden factory near Allesley, Warwickshire was up and running, Turner spent some time at BSA’s Armoury Road site at Small Heath, Birmingham and injected one or two of his own pet design devices—notably detachable rocker boxes in the now familiar Triumph twin style.

Old Classic Motorcycles : BSA A10 Golden Flash - For Sale Reviewed by Unknown On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at 11:40 PM Rating: 5
Currently you are reading "Old Classic Motorcycles : BSA A10 Golden Flash - For Sale" by Unknown on the day Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Time 11:40 PM, in category BSA, BSA A10, Old Classic Motorcycles . You may disseminate articles Old Classic Motorcycles : BSA A10 Golden Flash - For Sale These sources include a link from this website. Hopefully the product of Old Classic Motorcycles : BSA A10 Golden Flash - For Sale on the website Classic Motorcycles available on this website can be useful for everything.

Related Posts:

Tweet