New BSA mentioned in BBC news feed

[Greybeard]

BBC News - India's love affair with classic British motorbikes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54997191

[BSA_54A10]

Work of a Z grade repeater or perhaps a work experience student .
Researched thoroughly on Face book .

[Greybeard]

I think the fact it's being covered on the BBC News feed is interesting.

[Greybeard]

BBC News - India's love affair with classic British motorbikes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54997191

[Azubi]

Who is excited:

https://www.bsacompany.co.uk/

[BSA_54A10]

It is the sort of marketing hype I was expecting
The only people desperate enough to sign on would be ametur bike testers who did not qualify for a pre release test ride .

To comply with modern EPA regulations the bike will be nothing like a BSA
And you can't "rebirth" some thing that was not born before.

It is just a recycling of a name in the vein hope of some instant market recognition.
Don't know about the UK but about 1 in 500 people I run across on my bike actually have any idea what a BSA is or was.
AFATK the only prejapanese bike was a Harley .
Remember for the modern generation, if it is not on face book it is not real.

Recycling Ariel or Rocket III does not seem to have gone all that well.
The new Indians do not seem to be getting anywhere near the market penetration as the Buells it replaced either .

Considering it was over 50 years ago since the last BSA was made ( ignoring the way overpriced thinly disguised SR 400 / SR 500 Gold Stars ) , any one old enough to have ridden one new is just about at the end of their riding life .
The hipsters will want a "retro" stying with lots of chrome.
The boy racers will want a crutch rocket with miles of plastic & loud exhausts
The EPA will want neither


two weeks earlier then they could have piggy backed on the Glasgow climate conference for the battery powered models 

[Butch (cb)]

I'm inclined to agree. Too little too late.

For myself, whilst I have some enthusiasm for the Guzzi brand, and they do have a continuous linage stretching all the way back to 1921 I still wouldn't have a new one. Happy to a stick to the older stuff.

Conversely I am intending to buy an Enfield Himalayan this year though. But that has nothing to do with the the name/brand. I've used one before (actually in the Himalayas as it happens), I want to do a lot more mixed surface riding out in mainland Europe, and I think it is not a bad bike at a very keen price.

[Greybeard]

I don't see why the BSA name should not achieve the same success as Triumph and Norton. I'd love to see something like the Kawasaki W800 as a new BSA.

I wonder if the first bike will be a rebadged Jawa.

[Rex]

All these old names are resurfacing as nostalgia clearly sells bikes.
Surely no-one would expect any new bike to be even remotely like the bikes produced fifty years ago?

[RichardL]

Remember for the modern generation, if it is not on face book it is not real.

Trevor,

I basically agree with everything you've said here, except, you're off about a half a generation regarding Facebook. "Modern generation" is not using it so much anymore. If you could create a BSA dance we'd like to see it on Tik Tok (which, by the way, I am yet to look at once).

Richard L

[mikeb]

https://www.bsacompany.co.uk/

that's a free wordpress site built with the publicly available 'GrandPrix' theme on a low cost shared host: samotorcycles.wpengine.com./35.246.122.150
all the links try to sell you gloves.


i wouldn't get my hopes up on that one. maybe register if you want some cheap gloves?

[scotty]

Possibly related ?

https://www.rushlane.com/new-motorcycle-spied-royal-enfield-rival-jawa-bsa-bajaj-triumph-12410194.html


S

[chaterlea25]

Hi All,
I have read elsewhere that the new BSA's are being launched on Dec 4th , I think at the NEC Bike show ?

John

[BSA_54A10]

https://www.bsacompany.co.uk/

that's a free wordpress site built with the publicly available 'GrandPrix' theme on a low cost shared host: samotorcycles.wpengine.com./35.246.122.150
all the links try to sell you gloves.


i wouldn't get my hopes up on that one. maybe register if you want some cheap gloves?

So not all the internet scammers come from Nigeria then ?

[BSA_54A10]

All these old names are resurfacing as nostalgia clearly sells bikes.
Surely no-one would expect any new bike to be even remotely like the bikes produced fifty years ago?

Do they ?
Did not seem to work for the new Ariel
How many Rocket III do you see on a daily basis ?