Bsa goldstar

[bgreene30]

Hi, I am looking for a goldstar. Open to any models or years. Numbers matching.

Bob in CA
714.612.1267

Thanks Gents!

[Britluv]

What do you mean by "numbers matching?"

The frame and engine numbers NEVER "matched" on real Gold Stars. "Matching numbers" didn't come from BSA until 1966, and that was three years after the Gold Stars ceased production.

To determine which engine number came with which frame serial number you must contact the Gold Star Owners Club in the UK. The GSOC has the factory records.

There is a wide-spread mistaken belief that a Gold Star will outrun any bike made. This is due to it's 1950-1963 track record.
They are tempremental, specialist bikes. They were indeed fast IN THEIR TIME, but that was over 40 years ago.

From my views, everyone wants a Gold Star and once they own one, it is for sale again, a year or two later.

[BoschZEV]

What do you mean by "numbers matching?"

It's quite common to use this term to describe a bike whose engine and frame numbers match the ones on the factory "despatch" records.

From my views, everyone wants a Gold Star and once they own one, it is for sale again, a year or two later.

I've had a Gold Star for 20 years that is not for sale, nor are ones owned by a dozen other Gold Star owners I know. That said, one friend bought a Gold Star and sold it a few years later. However, in his case it was the only non-modern bike he owned and he sold it because he never rode it.

There is a wide-spread mistaken belief that a Gold Star will outrun any bike made.

If this is a wide-spread belief it's one I've never heard of before. No one I know thinks a Gold Star will go all that much faster than 100 mph, which mid-size modern bikes easily will do before reaching top gear.

I'm sure you've mixed up the top speed of a Gold Star with that of a Vincent Black Shadow, which everyone knows is the fastest bike ever made. Quoting no less an authority on the technical specifications of motorcycles than Hunter S. Thompson, a Vincent Black Shadow is:

"A fantastic bike," I said. "The new model is something like two thousand cubic inches, developing two hundred brake-horsepower at four thousand revolutions per minute on a magnesium frame with two styrofoam seats and a total curb weight of exactly two hundred pounds... it's pure hell on the straightaway. It's outrun the F-111 until takeoff."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson