The new BSA...apparently

[Rex]

Not too shabby-

adm edit: updated this 1st post with picture of actual design (bottome image).

[Greybeard]

There were some artists impressions going around a while ago. Do you know if this is authentic?

I just did a Google and found that picture and others from last January. They are probably fantasy or 'concept' illustrations. They may have been commissioned to sound out what style motorbike potential buyers would prefer.

Here is another:
https://www.coroflot.com/Obiboi/BSA-STARFIRE-300-CONCEPT

[a10 gf]

Nothing to do whatsoever with bsa but the badge.

I like that design, sturdy "city-offroader" looks.

[RichardL]

What if Mahindra hired a couple of very senior citizens, who once worked for BSA, to act as brand consultants or "continuity staff"? Maybe, make one an honorary member of the Board. Put the right way, if there is a right way, I can imagine this as a legitimizer.

(I admit this is probably naivete in the extreme  )


Richard L.

[Greybeard]

What if Mahindra hired a couple of very senior citizens, who once worked for BSA, to act as brand consultants or "continuity staff"? Maybe, make one an honorary member of the Board. Put the right way, if there is a right way, I can imagine this as a legitimizer.

(I admit this is probably naivete in the extreme  )


Richard L.

Let us not think for one minute that a new BSA will have anything mechanically in common with an old'un. We might recognise the name(s), and the badge. I hope they choose spoked wheels.

[BigJim]

Am i the only person who shouts at all modern bikes, including the retro's "Put a proper mudguard on it"! Why is a mudguard that works considered ugly? To who's benefit is it to spray salt. grit and c..p all over the engine, radiator or rider? Rant over, i'm off to play in the garage even tho it freezing in there, A10 getting a blast tomorrow whatever the weather!
 

[Greybeard]

Why is a mudguard that works considered ugly?

And bicycles! I don't understand why anyone would ride a bicycle in the UK without mudguards.

[groily]

Why is a mudguard that works considered ugly?

It's a genuine problem Big J, but the simple truth - to me anyway - is that a lot of them were. Plug ugly. And heavy. And a pain to fit & remove, get wheels out etc etc.
I live with them for being 'original' on bikes that 'matter', but when faced with a decision when they're replicas or they're just fubarred, (or not there) I go alloy or stainless blades and make the best of it - and give away any old bits to anyone who wants them.
It's the old Beauty and Beholder thing.

The same applied when I was a kid and wanted a push-bike with Weismann centre-pull brakes, a Campagnola derailleur set, etc . So a perfectly good Raleigh or whatever would end up as a let's pretend geegaw (- bit like, um, most café-racers then?).
'Theatre' over common sense, I know  ..  . . but it's how daft some of us are. We really should keep taking the tablets, we know that too!

[Rex]

If I was being pedantic I'd say "Weinmann" and "Campagnolo".. I always dreamed of those French Mafac centre pull brakes, and when I finally got some I found the original  Weinmanns to be far better.
Also like a lot of geegaws we fit to our bikes..

[bikerbob]

Well if those photos are anything to go by all you have to do is take BSA off and replace it with AJS and you have a whole new market, you could be even be more ridiculous and change it to HRD and wow you have a Vincent

[groily]

Already beaten to it by enterprising persons from far away as far as AJS are concerned. (And apparently they work quite well for what they are.)
HRD/V syet to come maybe!

[Butch (cb)]

And bicycles! I don't understand why anyone would ride a bicycle in the UK without mudguards.

I was a member of a Club when I used to race time trials. Training in the winter months we were expected both to have full guards but also an extension on the rear so anyone following didn't cop an eyeful.

[Butch (cb)]

If I was being pedantic I'd say "Weinmann" and "Campagnolo".. I always dreamed of those French Mafac centre pull brakes, and when I finally got some I found the original  Weinmanns to be far better.
Also like a lot of geegaws we fit to our bikes..

Though twin pivot callipers do make a huge difference. I think high end these days is disc brakes though.

[groily]

If I were really really old - like over 100 and still had my marbles - I'd possibly remember the disc grafted onto the 'Abingdon Axle'.
 
I suppose one could argue that all bar back-pedal bicycle brakes are discs too, after a fashion (even if their names can be mispelled by ignorant gits now and then!)
https://cybermotorcycle.com/gallery/abingdon/Abingdon-axle.htm

[Greybeard]

After years of riding a mountain style of bicycle to work I treated myself to a lovely light road bike from Halfords. When I asked about having mudguards fitted to the bike, the pimply Halfords youth told me that it would not be possible to fit guards. There was no way I was going to ride 10 miles each way to work getting water sprayed onto my backside. I bought and fitted a set of traditional full mudguards.

RichardL: in the USA you call motorcycle mudguards fenders;  does that also apply to bicycle guards?