BSA

[weeksy]

Tell us more then ? A picture may speak 1000 words.... but i need some words too.

Bit of a confusing bike for me that. Tail looks weird. Cheapy swingarm, but with a Brembo radial caliper on the front end.... Strange.

[Yorick]

The stupid tank spoils it.

[Horse]

The stupid tank spoils it.

Slide up the tank in a T-bone crash and the filler cap could do some damage ...

[Mr. Dazzle]

Cheapy swingarm, but with a Brembo radial caliper on the front end.... Strange.

I bet you* can buy the Brembo caliper and its mount as a packaged item off the shelf whereas the swingarm will be a bespoke bit for that bike.

*if you were a motorcycle manufacturer buying a few thousand that is

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It'll be a success, Mahindra have made bikes for other manufacturers for years, they do know what they're doing, I doubt if they're that interested in the UK market, the Indian market is huge, my experience of Indian motorcyclists is that they think air cooled RD350s are over powered death machines.

[Yorick]

It'll be a success, Mahindra have made bikes for other manufacturers for years, they do know what they're doing, I doubt if they're that interested in the UK market, the Indian market is huge, my experience of Indian motorcyclists is that they think air cooled RD350s are over powered death machines.

The police were using them when I was there in 1986 I had a go pillion. Scary.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The police were using them when I was there in 1986 I had a go pillion. Scary.

Yeah you don't know the true meaning of traffic until you've driven in India

[KungFooBob]

I found it interesting that in India they only allow a tiny amount of imported vehicles, 90%+ have to be manufactured/assembled domestically by law.

That's why you don't get Honda's, you get Hero Honda's... built in an Indian factory jointly owned by an Indian company and Honda. Same with the cars, when I went to Goa 99.9% of the four wheelers were Maruti Suzuki (Swifts and Ignis) made in India by an at leastly part Indian owned factory.

[JackyJoll]

The stupid tank spoils it.

You picked the one slightly BSA-looking part!

[Couchy]

The new BSA goldstar is 20 yards from me now, it was delivered to a business next door for EU approval testing. TBH I've had a look and I'm not impressed compared to my enfield. I've been offered a go and may do next week. I'm banned from taking photos though for obvious reasons lol

[Nidge]

Well the Small Heath ones were nailed together by cowboys....

[KungFooBob]

I found it interesting that in India they only allow a tiny amount of imported vehicles, 90%+ have to be manufactured/assembled domestically by law.

That's why you don't get Honda's, you get Hero Honda's... built in an Indian factory jointly owned by an Indian company and Honda. Same with the cars, when I went to Goa 99.9% of the four wheelers were Maruti Suzuki (Swifts and Ignis) made in India by an at leastly part Indian owned factory.

They don't like exporting classics either.
As I said I've been all over India and I came across some really nice classic British bikes, but getting them out of India is apparently nigh on impossible. My friends told me they could do it, but they'd have to strip them down, ship them out as parts and then I'd have to put it back together.

I never looked into it properly but apparently that's the situation.

IME you don't see many European built cars at all. My mate from Kerala said if you see someone in India in a posh European car then he's proper rich.

Yeah, I recall you have to be a resident to purchase a vehicle in the first place. There must be ways around exporting as there's a company selling old 350 Bullets direct from india to the UK on t'bay.

[Yorick]

Well the Small Heath ones were nailed together by cowboys....

Now it's the Injuns

[Nidge]

Yeah thanks for explaining the punchline;)

[JackyJoll]

Well the Small Heath ones were nailed together by cowboys....

You cannot be serious!

Look, man, look at the facts!

[Nidge]

That whole front page can be condensed to:

“We’re going to carry on making basically the same engine we have for the last 20 years but we’re going to direct a splash of oil to the tappets”

[KungFooBob]

You're ignoring the engineering milestone that was going from pre-unit to unit construction!

[JackyJoll]

You're ignoring the engineering milestone that was going from pre-unit to unit construction!

Which was continuing to make the same engine, but from a complete set of new parts.

And making it badly.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It'll be a success, Mahindra have made bikes for other manufacturers for years, they do know what they're doing, I doubt if they're that interested in the UK market, the Indian market is huge, my experience of Indian motorcyclists is that they think air cooled RD350s are over powered death machines.

A lot of my friends are Indian and I've been over there many times, they're bike mad.
There are motorbike magazines that sell like hot cakes and they're only aimed at the Indian market, when I'm over there I grab a few and it's like reading about JDM models back in the 80's and 90's - the Indians have stuff over there that we never see.

The attitude is like the UK in the 1970's and 80's - most of them ride small bikes but they all love the big bikes.

We had a couple of Indian contractors working for us who were into bikes, they were amazed that I'd ride an 1170cc bike, I'd chat to them about what riding a bike was like in the UK in the 1990s and the speeds we used to ride at on the road. Great couple of blokes, and as Harry says the things they said about riding in India sounded like the stupid shit I did on LCs in the 80s.

[Whysub]

They don't like exporting classics either.
As I said I've been all over India and I came across some really nice classic British bikes, but getting them out of India is apparently nigh on impossible. My friends told me they could do it, but they'd have to strip them down, ship them out as parts and then I'd have to put it back together.

I never looked into it properly but apparently that's the situation.

IME you don't see many European built cars at all. My mate from Kerala said if you see someone in India in a posh European car then he's proper rich.

Guy Martin wanted to ride the Enfield he purchased in India back to the UK (which could have been interesting), but there was no way he could have got it out of the country.

Itchyboots managed to ride the Indian purchased and registered Enfield Himalayan from India to the Netherlands, but it was registered in an Indian residents name. Maybe that's how you can overcome that issue.