Earlier this year, BSA Company Ltd. was also awarded a £4.6 million grant by the UK Government for the development of zero-emission motorcycles, as part of the low-carbon automotive initiative. Zero emission motorcycles translates to electric motorcycles and I’m not sure if nostalgia for...
The rear carrier started life as TRW Triumph but has been widened and changed in most other dimensions. The alloy shelf under the seat base carries the resistors required for proper LED flashing. The rack also holds the plywood based vintage UK pillion (it was incorrect on my Sunbeam) and ...
(It’s also a familiar model for me; in the 80s, there was a TV detective show in the UK calledBoon, and a BSA Lightning featured in every episode.) Giffin’s BSA was an eBay find, but also a salutary lesson in buying unseen. “It was supposed to be a 1966 Lightning. It turned...