Archive for ‘BSA’

May 24, 2023

We don’t need another hero

Tina

What a voice and charismatic presence the indefatigable Ms Turner had. Stretching from the 50’s into the 21st Century her impact in the music industry was colossal. She was also a motorcycle rider. A favorite bike being an Electra Glide HD. Though here is a younger gal with a sixties BSA.

Tina Turner RIP (1939-2023)

April 1, 2023

Cheeky!

Bloody Sore Arse

BSA through the woods. A hippy couple take a trip under leafy boughs, fifty years ago. The cover of a parts catalogue.

April 1, 2023

Cheeky!

Bloody Sore Arse

BSA through the woods. A hippy couple take a trip under leafy boughs, fifty years ago. The cover of a parts catalogue.

February 10, 2023

Hope Springs Eternal

Bob’s yer uncle

USO favorite Bob Hope looking smart on this well-travelled BSA with a lady friend- approximately 1950 so he’s well into the series of Road to… films with co-star Bing Crosby. Signs on the bike refer to riding 101 through the Redwood forested Mendocino County.

February 6, 2023

Go Pro

Outside Broadcasting

A BBC cameraman haring around a muddy scramble wearing the tech equipment of its day to capture the riders view of a race. BSA acting as dolly, I’m sure the transmission paraphernalia isn’t too lightweight either being strapped to his back mounted on some scaffolding.

January 4, 2023

ATGATT

Flat Cap and Boilersuit

Sparsely equipped BSA ready for the fields and dirt roads. Of hood and horn you could say.

December 25, 2022

Artful Dodger

Antipodean Adventurer

Another portrait of Arthur for Les.

December 18, 2022

Arthur

Crimson Cruiser

Māori Moto. Here’s Les Elmer’s renovated ‘29 BSA. Coming up to its centenary in a few years and looking good for it!

December 11, 2022

Beeza

Ink and Wash

Trying some more quickfire thumbnails in my sketchbook. Color daubs and black pen linework.

November 22, 2022

Thunderbolt & Lightning

1970 BSA

Oily puddles under a scabby twin. the mark of a British iron.

February 9, 2022

Group Dynamics

Motorcycle Gang
January 16, 2022

What was old is now new

The return of the star

– An Indian motorcycle manufacturer is rereleasing a couple of BSA models with echoes of classic bikes from the past. Both 650 singles, one is based on the Gold Star; the other more dirt oriented. I’d take either!

January 13, 2022

Meow

Tao and the cat of motorcycle restoration

– BSA B25 off road with maintenance tabby. I can see some Pursigesque tale as a feline companion to a rebuild adventure.

January 9, 2022

If you see Sid, tell ‘im!

Mister Tibbs

– another passing this week was Sidney Poitier. He flew the door wide open for minority actors. This lesser known film that he directed and starred in sees him as an american, Dr Matt Younger, who travels to Britain to take part in scrambler races. Whilst there he falls for a young woman who is an African Ambassadors daughter. Romance ensues. Sidney was 94. The bike is a BSA B50 MX which, incidentally, was the very last competition model from the Small Heath factory. Models were still rolling off the line during BSA’s demise.

January 4, 2022

Oil City Oler

Beeza!

– Olive Oler, the first woman to be seen riding her BSA motorcycle around Casper WY 1343 S. McKinley St., 1956 . A nice A7 Shooting Star