Showing posts with label goldstar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goldstar. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Going oldscule

Check out this picture of  I Am Adam,s Dad. Looks like it might be a BSA Goldstar.
'bearsilber' sums the image up with the comment
"That is way too awesome. I can't wait to show my kids photos of me like this."

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Yo Ho Hoe's part 2

Yea been offline for a while, But here's some from the regularly checked blogs!
Sideblog has this good Goldstar, I'd love one of these barstards. A Goldstar Flat tracker.

 I was on that Pete Stansfield site Eat t' Rich, There was a link to JLC's Flickr, With images of the North Weald Sprint, I HAVE to go to that. ( I posted pics before)

And a crazy machine from Japanese blog Daikoube








Friday, 26 August 2011

AMD championship video

 Interview with Larry Houghton of Lamb Engineering. The son of a Gun BSA maker guy.

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Blog randomizer

I went on a surfing spree. There are loads of good pictures on this El Corra Motors. Visit for info on all the pictures. Nuts
 Listar Goldstar
 Nice Suzuki two stroke tracker
 ACME limey
 Mr Horsepower Harley drag bike
 Triumph unit dragbike
 Vincent dragbike
 Triumph cub sprinter / drag bike
 Harley Davidson Flathead
 Yamaha two stroke custom
 Jawa speedway nail
 Harley Davidson bottom end JAP top end dragbike
 Twin engined pre unit Triumph drag bike
 Triumph dragbike

 SOHC Honda cafe racer
 Over head cam Harley dragbike The Hog
 Royal Enfield Tracker Flat tracker
 Looks like a Meguro Auto Race bike Autorace


Thursday, 28 July 2011

BSA Goldstar

The gorgeous BSA goldstar. The dream bike of many. Look at that amazing brown tank. This from beware the flowers



Sunday, 17 July 2011

Back in business.


The piston got torched previosly, I had trouble finding a replacement as it had a long rod high comp one in there, any b series owners may know that most stuff like that is for the short rod later versions. I managed to track down a +40 piston at a sane price from Petes classic bike parts in the Netherlands. The previous piston was a strange one as it was an actual BSA piston (not Hepolite or etc), and since getting this new one I now realise it was like 8:1 cr, wheras the one I got to replace it is 8.5:1. Hope thats not going to cause problems!.This one is a MC cast piston. It has a skirt seperation slot which the other one didn't so hopefully that will make it less likely to nip up.
I spent ages trying to fit the final circlip in, then I could not get it to seat, after ages I realised I was putting it in the side that already had a circlip!
I hate doing the timing, 7/16" btdc. It took ages to do, only to realise I made the mistake of setting it to 7/16" after tdc! 2'nd error of the day. Set it to the reccomended 7/16"btc fully advanced, but seems to me ike there's a lot of variables to simply set the pionts to .002 @ 7/16" btdc. What about mag pinion play and stuff.
Stagger the ring gaps, none on the thrust side bla bla.

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Euro Spares

Some fun pictures from this good site Euro Spares
Check out the Vincent going awol, and that Goldstar sprinter. BSA goldstar sprinter 1000cc vincent moto morini moto guzzi yamaha etc





Sunday, 1 May 2011

CFH BSA

It runs!! Got the oil tank cleaned, gearbox oil'd, temporary fuel tank rigged up to test, makeshift throttle cable for now. After many kicks and a thrashed leg and foot, I managed to get the thing to start. Nice one.

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Friday, 4 March 2011

Test fit

Strap the frame together tightly with engine and gearbox to check frame alignment. Turns out the rear axle plates are 1/2" too far apart on one side.

Timing cover tulip

BSA B31/33 M20/21/33 Oil feed quill, always snapped. tricky to remove. Heated case and used pliers and stuff.

Credit crunch paint

Removed the old paint with a wire wheel on a grinder. As much as possible. This will do until I can afford posh wheel job.