New Toy

[Seamus]

Something to keep the 500 and the Suzuki company.

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[Nurse Julie]

😍😍😍😍😍😍

[bobv7]

Looks like an RGS, but is it? Very nice either way.

[taysidedragon]

Lovely 👍😎

[Spitfire]

Gorgeous, brings out the BSA lover in me, still got my A65 in bits in the garage.

Cheers

Dennis

[Sesman]

Really nice. I had one of those and ran it with a 500 twin card head....great for knocking the bottom end out .
Roll on spring...

[MCTID]

Aha....my first 'big bike' after numerous Lambrettas (we all have to grow up sometime) around 1968 ish. I hope (I'm sure) that you'll enjoy your Beeza Seamus.

URJ 83 IIRC. I used to change the oil every week or so as I used the same oil as we ran the Multi Spindle Lathes on in the Factory where I worked and as I worked the Night shift, I did it at work ! It also got a good wipe down every night - cos I could !

I bought it for £50, ran it for a year and sold it for £60.........a result ! Needed a car then so a Vauxhall Victor replaced it which threw a rod on the Motorway.....yes you guessed - from lack of oil !

Not the best bike in the world, but apart from it chewing the fibre timing gear a couple of times, it served me well and Jack Bottomley's Bike Spares Shop on Cheetham Hill Road in sunny Mancunia on Sea got most of my Apprentice Wage !

Happy daze !

[paul G]

Very nice 

[philward]

Nice bike! I'm no expert on Brit bikes but quess the headlight brackets aren't standard?

[MrDavo]

I had a 500 BSA twin and a couple of 650s. Relatively simple, you could draw the wiring diagram on a fag packet, and I could time it with a pencil, marked with the BTC measurement, and a fag paper to tell you when the points on the magneto open.

John at Jack Bottomley (I was told that the original Jack Bottomley fell off a yacht and disappeared) was great - grumpy at first but once I got to know him he’d let me behind the scenes to look for parts. If something was expensive it was always because it was ‘the last one in stock’! If it was cheap it was because it was out of stock.

[Moorey]

 
   Bastard Stopped Again.    Nice looker though

[MrDavo]

'Bits Stuck Allover', or when the Mrs wore her BSA T Shirt 'Big Sexy A*se' 

[sprinta]

My RGS, which I have had for a few years now. Waiting for the lock down and the bad weather to pass to get it  on the road again.

Fitted std first gear on the RRT2 gearbox and converted to touring trim to make it easier to ride.

[MrDavo]

Ah yes the RRT2, legend had it that it was geared for 70mph in first!

It got mentioned in the Steve Gibbons Band song BSA, probably the only gearbox number to get a song lyric...

'Don't want a Kawasaki or Suzuki or whatever, although I know they're very fast,
I want a Gold Star 500, Clubmans trim, all those little extras thrown right in, double RT2 the same as him...'

Some cool BSAs in the video too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c739L9soPHY

[Sesman]

Is it true that there are more RGS’s registered than ever left the factory. Or is that a wife’s tail? Lovely lookers,though.