BSA Motorcycles Returns With Its 2023 Gold Star

To me a Sportster, an Electra Glide and a Bonneville of the period are what motorcycles are supposed to look like.

In 1967 I fell in love with exotics reading Road and Track over my brothers shoulder the road test of the 275 4 cam.

In the same period on one of the family vacations driving cross country we had a guy on a blue Electra Glide riding cross country same general speed and direction on the highway with us. We saw each other on and off for days. I thought "Man, what a life". Now that guy is me.

 

Talking about dual sport bikes and road trips and being that guy on the Electra Glide here is a woman we ran into in Yukon Territory. She was by herself riding from just a few miles of where we were from in California to meet up with friends in Alaska. Has ridden all over the world , a good and very intrepid rider. She got on and off it just fine.
Anyway we met at lunch and she asked if she could tag along for a while. A few miles later she got a flat on the gravel roads we were on. She was very well equipped for it but had never fixed one and neither had my riding partner so I held class in motorcycle flat repair by the side of a gravel road in the Yukon, not far from Alaska. She treated us to dinner at Buckshot Bettys and then took off on her own to catch her friends.
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Now thats what its all about !! Cool story !!


Big G

 

I've always had my eye on these bikes. They have counter balancers so they don't shake "as bad." But they still shake.

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