Never thought much of the Goldie as a Café Racer. In the early 1960's I used to leave the Ace Café on The North Circular Road with a few mates, on BSA Super Rockets, Nortons and my T110 and various other bikes on a burn-up to The Busy Bee on The Watford By-Pass, usually about 30 of us, and the Goldie would never be the first there. Vincents first then T110's, Rockets and Dommies then the Goldie would get there a couple of minutes later!
Pehaps the bloke on Goldie could not use it properly!! I used to burn triumphs of for a pastime.Now the Blackshadow that was something else. My dream bike !!AAAAhhhh fond memories for an old fart.
Yes!!!!! Notice after a couple of gear changes how fast the scenery is passing by? Should be good for 115 mph (185 KPH) when well ssorted. Not bad for a 1956 road going machine with lights etc. There's just something special about a Goldie........
@@stephaniekent8483 No Stephanie, I had a 1961 DBD 34 Clubmans with an RRT2 box, 70 mph in first maybe, but I never took mine past 50 = 4500 revs, I was a mechanic and new what went on inside, if those large valves kissed, it was by by Vienna.
Mine was a 1961 DBD 34 Clubmans, bought it in 1966 for £139 kept it for 2years,went to the I.O.M.in 1968 on it, then sold it for £195. Wish I had it now, there's something special about a big single. Ta Ta.
OMG ... the DB 34 ... The smell of Castrol R ... brings back my bike days of the 60s... Nottingham to Matlock Bath ... did we ever think we did something that is of interest today .. I'l be 80 2024 ... sold a Ducati 750SS when I was 66 ...
Derek: Bragging about beating a 500cc Gold Star, probably not running the twin intake cam race setup, with 1000cc, 750cc, and 650cc bikes, all newer than the Goldie? Give me a break! I know talk is cheap, but I never had any trouble keeping up with, and often beating, 650 and 750 twins with my own DBD34, especially on shorter tracks, where top speed wasn't the decider. In fact, any decent Gold Star with a good rider will out-pull any big twin through first, second and most of third gear.
+Chuck Lane, I'm not bragging about beating a Gold Star, just stating the fact that in standard trim with a high first gear, they were slow from the lights, and were no match for the twins of the 50's and 60's.
+Derek Hartley - That would only be a fact if my Granny was riding the Gold Star while taking a nap. The actual fact is that, even in full street trim - and good luck ever finding one of those - the DBD34 500cc single Gold Star, even without a GP carb, will ALWAYS beat any twin from that era off the line and through the first few gears. And that includes 650 Triumphs, BSAs, Nortons, Harleys, whatever, though a well-ridden H-D flat-tracker could jump off the line almost as quickly. But just almost. It's just very simple physics. The Gold Star was a low-end monster, and everyone who owned, raced or got beat by one knew it. And I'm talking about the twins of the 50s, 60s and even into the early 70s. I'm definitely not claiming that you would stay in front once the twins had spooled-up, but out of the hole even a rank novice could give all the twin riders a (sometimes painful) dirt bath. Why else do you think Gold Stars practically ruled Ascot during the 500cc era? They had tons of bottom.
+Derek Hartley - Just a quick note to let you know that I'm not picking on you. Whenever I see certain things said about certain older bikes that I know aren't accurate, I always tend to jump in and wave my arms and yell a bit. I'd do the same thing if someone said older British bikes always leaked oil (they didn't), or that all Harleys are junk (their flat-trackers have always been at or near the top), or that knee-dragging in sorta new (it was being done as far back as 1963 in AFM road-racing).
+Chuck Lantz , I know I'm getting on a bit now, and it was 55 years ago since I regularly visited The Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road, Stonebridge Park, Wembley. I can vividly remember those wonderful years of my youth on my T110, and no matter what you say, it will not change my memory of the performance of the BSA Gold Star bikes that my friends and I came up against, was inferior to certain vertical twins of the day, when compared, most notably under acceleration from low speeds due to the high Goldies first gear, admittedly they were more competitive after 40mph when they changed up. It's a small world but I can remember overtaking an elderly lady on a Goldie, wearing a pinny and curlers, on leaving the Ace on our way to The Busy Bee on the Watford By-Pass, could this have been your granny? Another thing I can't agree with you, over ten years I had four British Bikes and they all leaked oil, even after fitting new gaskets to them, also I'm not all that keen on Harleys either - but that's another story. Nice to chat to you.
+Derek Hartley - To be clear, I am truly enjoying this exchange, and no matter how we resolve this, if ever, I do respect your views. Coincidently, my best buddy, who lives in London, took me to the Ace Cafe last June a couple of weeks after we got back from the IoM TT. It was my first visit to that famous (infamous?) Vatican of bikes, and it was everything I'd heard, and more. There was a very sweet Gold Star there, on display inside. I was just about to get all teary-eyed upon seeing it, until I noticed that some cad had swapped the original GP carb for a Mikuni. I immediately instructed my batsman to burn a feather for me, as I'm sure you'll understand. On a more serious note, I have to double-down on my claims about Gold Stars and their low-end performance, but with a proviso. I don't think I mentioned that all the racing. and almost all the street DBD34s around these parts had the "intake cam on both sides" factory recommended mod done to them, which as you know resulted in a nice bunch of additional RPM and ponies. In short, they weren't Thumpers anymore. That cam switch, which was called the "road racing" mod in the original manual, was so common here that I neglected to mention it. I may also have neglected to point out that our head-to-head drag races between bikes always included lighting up the rear wheel, on both dirt and pavement. Riders who had more money than brains might choose to slip the clutch instead of spinning the rear, but that almost never gave the same results. So, maybe it's the combination of the cam mod and our drag racing starts that provided the different results? And finally, I had to smile when I saw you mention your T110. That was my first proper circuit race bike (until I saw the TT live for the first time this year, I always referred to it as "road racing", I've learned better.) That T110 engine was capable of handling an amazing amount of tweaking and tricking-out. The guy who built mine was an ex-pat Scot named Gus Murdoch, who I think had a pretty decent reputation as a tuner when he was still in the UK. He managed to make that Triumph a whole lot faster than I ever was. I was always running out of talent long before it ran out of power, not that that was too difficult. Damn, this got long in a hurry.
Well, if you use the 65-6442 inlet and 65-6446 exhaust cams, make sure you have a nimonic 80 exhaust valve and 1 1/2" GP carburettor, RRT2 close ratio box and my prefrence being the 8" front brake in Dunlop alloy rims it should go like s*** off a shovel. Of course make sure that the magneto is capable of running up to 7,000 engine speed and the valves are set at 0.006" clearance, spanner being rotated away form the centreline as seen from the timing side else you'll be on the wrong face of the cams. Don't exceed 7,000 rpm on the 500cc else you'll be buying lots of engine parts. In Touring trim with touring cams and 1 5/32 TT carb. the 500 Goldie was good for 105mph (least that's what mine did just after I bought it) and with all the Clubmans bits fitted 112 to 115 mph. Great bike for an 18 year old........
Whilst the sound is nice, it just does not compare to the original exhaust note and the famed "Goldie Twitter" . Otherwise a nice example of the marque.
How they think 🤔 that the lndian made fakir is worthy of the name Gold Star ⭐ is beyond me. One is a timeless classic British motorcycle and the other is just a piece of Chinesiom lndian style.Fried rice with curry. Not fish and chips.
i had one exactly like it , it never ran good , the lucas magneto was shit in those bikes . sold it for a few hundred bucks , ............i wish i would have it now , they are worth a lot of money . i would not ride it though , just sell it for big bucks , because i still think they are a piece of shit ! :)
I guess the power characteristics of bikes differ, but my '58 DBD34 is really cammy. It comes on very strong after about 5000 rpm, and doesn't really like sub 4000 rpm at all. I don't notice the low end grunt that some folks comment on here. I am the second owner, and still haven't gone through the engine and gearbox, as it runs well as is. Perhaps this next winter I will dig into it and figure out what cams are in it, etc.
Gregory; What you describe leads me to believe that your Gold Star has the cam combination I mentioned in another comment, using identical intake cams for exhaust and intake. I think the last two digits on the stamped part number was "51", but that's a guess. Anyway, using that cam combination, which was called the "road racing" combination in the DBD34 user manual, resulted in the performance profile you mentioned, with not much happening until 5000 or so, and then it really starts to sing, pulling strongly to redline. It's easy to tell by the sound if that cam combination is being used, since the common "thump-thump" is replaced by a high-winding wail, very close to the sound of a big twin. If you happen to have an original DBD34 owners manual, that cam combo is mentioned about halfway through. It's also easy to check by pulling the cam cover and checking the stamped part numbers. If you do have that set-up, and if you're running the original Amal GP carb, I'd suggest you make sure you're running the right sized main jet, since that cam combination makes the Gold Star VERY thirsty at the top end.
Why would you call it a cafe' racer and then put a touring fuel tank on it. The stock peanut would be better suited for cafe' racing? I had 66' hornet mk2 and had three bridge stone 90 and 100 cc. One with touring tank and two mountain 90s one with n one without. I'm telling you five gallons is a lot for a racing bike.
Whatta great film....BSA was mandated to provide 'working class transportation' .. ..and no-one can belt out Easy Livin' in Karaoke like me....but, okay....send the bike to Canada, we'll accept it. thx in advance.
If I covet anything in this world, it's a GOLDSTAR! If yours ever comes up missing, alert the cops to my location. BTW, very fartsy-artsy the camera placement. Good thing ya removed the air clnr. (PLEASE don't tell me that you cruise about w/out one?!)
I can tell just by looking that it's not a period muffler. Pity that. I never heard a Gold Star but it's just to obvious. My dad rode BSAs and I know what the 650s sounded like. None of the new bikes have that awesome sound. I almost bought a Gold Star once upon a time, $50. It was in boxes. I wish I had done so now.
just dawn on me the logic of the key access being on the same side as the kick start pedal. great viewing from the slide. and thanks for saving the music for last... love that album. i ride a fully restored 68 tr6r triumph trophy sports, gave a $ a cc for it back at ft. bragg in 72. restored it in 2012, -gilpin 12-18-15
That's pretty damn cool seeing that slide go up and down in that carb, I'm also cringing hoping to God that I do not see anything fly in that velocity stack, my gosh brother put a screen on it, like playing Russian roulette with a $15,000 bike! 😲, And by the way brother she is absolutely gorgeous, very lucky man.
The original Goldie has something about it that no other bike of that period had, sexy looks and sound was magic,its almost mystical like the Spitfire. As I said, just something about it made it very special..still does for me.
I was never a Goldie fan the Manx was more my cup of tea the feather bed made it handle better and it was just more reliable. Even my old Matchbox CSR had more tickle but the Goldie did turn into a nice Cafe racer
My father has a 72 BSA thunder bolt, I am currently putting together a 74 oil in frame BSA cafe racer. My brother owns a BSA scrambler I think is 78. Pretty much all the same bike but different flavor, Super glad the cafe racer style has came back the last ten years!
Agree with 1400driver, novel camera position watching the big GP working, I imagine thr Goldie (or the Velo Thruxton) are the only bikes you could do that with, I kept thinking the camera was going to disappear up the inlet. Cheers, Dave
cheers Mick ,,,, we sat and debated hours from the exhaust' to the valves to the even to the timing ... and the smell of Castrol'R' wonderful days.. cheers again Mick just sold my Ducati 750 SS getting a bit heavy.
i owned a BSA dbd34 gold star for about six or seven year in the late sixties early seventies,they were then the most unreliable bikes ever made,i could write a book about mine,i lost count of how many times the engine was stripped down because something was wrong internally,the timing could never be set properly ,oil leaks ,the electrics shook to pieces ,the kick starter broke starter quadrant and cog regularly broke too,in their favour they are beautiful looking bike,
@Tabourba thanks for reply should got back sooner, we are entitled to an opinion, I am what is known as an old timer in your part of the world , back in those days you learnt hands on, there was little money to lavish on bikes, might not be the sharpest knife in the box but learn't the hard way, I still own bikes, I recently sold my Buell XB12 Lightning, and now own a 1200 Indian new plus two vintage bikes, talking of reliability, I owned Honda 90 which I covered 16000 mile it never missed a beat,
just great dbd34gs my dream,never got one,got t140, triton t120, norton atlas, A7 ,shoting star never be able to found or afford a dbd 34gs, but how nose i still got place in to the work shop
conan howard An 'effort' taking off from a stop? Any clutgh-slipping needed? My Parisian ride: i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa413/zuzulo56/BSAThunderbolt1968_zps892e38c3.jpg
Very nice bike, but very expensive and rare .... I own a Royal Enfield Clubman 500, by Watsonian England. It sounds almost the same, bt it's the poor man's Goldstar nice film keep the knees in the breeze....
those Goldie's sound great. A bit like my old
BSA B44SS [ when ever I could get it started
which wasn't very often) !
Never thought much of the Goldie as a Café Racer. In the early 1960's I used to leave the Ace Café on The North Circular Road with a few mates, on BSA Super Rockets, Nortons and my T110 and various other bikes on a burn-up to The Busy Bee on The Watford By-Pass, usually about 30 of us, and the Goldie would never be the first there. Vincents first then T110's, Rockets and Dommies then the Goldie would get there a couple of minutes later!
DEREK HARTLEY
bouziki music
Goldie was great sound flat out past Ace cafe
That was the days Ace to busy bee lost lot of mates on these wild times
Pehaps the bloke on Goldie could not use it properly!! I used to burn triumphs of for a pastime.Now the Blackshadow that was something else. My dream bike !!AAAAhhhh fond memories for an old fart.
Yes!!!!! Notice after a couple of gear changes how fast the scenery is passing by? Should be good for 115 mph (185 KPH) when well ssorted. Not bad for a 1956 road going machine with lights etc. There's just something special about a Goldie........
YES PLEASE-SANTA.
60 mph first gear
trevor francis very true , not as fast acceleration as a rocket gold star or a triumph Bonneville but once you got it going it was a very fast bike .
how about 90 mph in first with an RRT2 gearbox? :)
Mine did 70-75 in first, with RRT2 Box and 23 tooth engine sprocket. Standard figures.
@@stephaniekent8483 No Stephanie, I had a 1961 DBD 34 Clubmans with an RRT2 box, 70 mph in first maybe, but I never took mine past 50 = 4500 revs, I was a mechanic and new what went on inside, if those large valves kissed, it was by by Vienna.
@@exb.r.buckeyeman845 yes Ive heard that, my friend who owned it rebuilt it and re registered it new every year..dont ask me why lol :)
Mine was a 1961 DBD 34 Clubmans, bought it in 1966 for £139 kept it for 2years,went to the I.O.M.in 1968 on it, then sold it for £195. Wish I had it now, there's something special about a big single. Ta Ta.
OMG ... the DB 34 ... The smell of Castrol R ... brings back my bike days of the 60s... Nottingham to Matlock Bath ... did we ever think we did something that is of interest today .. I'l be 80 2024 ... sold a Ducati 750SS when I was 66 ...
I was distracted by the slide in the carb going up and down!!!............:):):)
And the occasional puff of vaporized fuel :)
me too, i was wishing to see it all the way up, ha
Real metal. Noise. Danger. Excitement...... Everything modern bikes lack
Derek: Bragging about beating a 500cc Gold Star, probably not running the twin intake cam race setup, with 1000cc, 750cc, and 650cc bikes, all newer than the Goldie? Give me a break! I know talk is cheap, but I never had any trouble keeping up with, and often beating, 650 and 750 twins with my own DBD34, especially on shorter tracks, where top speed wasn't the decider. In fact, any decent Gold Star with a good rider will out-pull any big twin through first, second and most of third gear.
+Chuck Lane, I'm not bragging about beating a Gold Star, just stating the fact that in standard trim with a high first gear, they were slow from the lights, and were no match for the twins of the 50's and 60's.
+Derek Hartley - That would only be a fact if my Granny was riding the Gold Star while taking a nap. The actual fact is that, even in full street trim - and good luck ever finding one of those - the DBD34 500cc single Gold Star, even without a GP carb, will ALWAYS beat any twin from that era off the line and through the first few gears. And that includes 650 Triumphs, BSAs, Nortons, Harleys, whatever, though a well-ridden H-D flat-tracker could jump off the line almost as quickly. But just almost. It's just very simple physics. The Gold Star was a low-end monster, and everyone who owned, raced or got beat by one knew it. And I'm talking about the twins of the 50s, 60s and even into the early 70s. I'm definitely not claiming that you would stay in front once the twins had spooled-up, but out of the hole even a rank novice could give all the twin riders a (sometimes painful) dirt bath. Why else do you think Gold Stars practically ruled Ascot during the 500cc era? They had tons of bottom.
+Derek Hartley - Just a quick note to let you know that I'm not picking on you. Whenever I see certain things said about certain older bikes that I know aren't accurate, I always tend to jump in and wave my arms and yell a bit. I'd do the same thing if someone said older British bikes always leaked oil (they didn't), or that all Harleys are junk (their flat-trackers have always been at or near the top), or that knee-dragging in sorta new (it was being done as far back as 1963 in AFM road-racing).
+Chuck Lantz , I know I'm getting on a bit now, and it was 55 years ago since I regularly visited The Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road, Stonebridge Park, Wembley. I can vividly remember those wonderful years of my youth on my T110, and no matter what you say, it will not change my memory of the performance of the BSA Gold Star bikes that my friends and I came up against, was inferior to certain vertical twins of the day, when compared, most notably under acceleration from low speeds due to the high Goldies first gear, admittedly they were more competitive after 40mph when they changed up.
It's a small world but I can remember overtaking an elderly lady on a Goldie, wearing a pinny and curlers, on leaving the Ace on our way to The Busy Bee on the Watford By-Pass, could this have been your granny?
Another thing I can't agree with you, over ten years I had four British Bikes and they all leaked oil, even after fitting new gaskets to them, also I'm not all that keen on Harleys either - but that's another story.
Nice to chat to you.
+Derek Hartley - To be clear, I am truly enjoying this exchange, and no matter how we resolve this, if ever, I do respect your views. Coincidently, my best buddy, who lives in London, took me to the Ace Cafe last June a couple of weeks after we got back from the IoM TT. It was my first visit to that famous (infamous?) Vatican of bikes, and it was everything I'd heard, and more.
There was a very sweet Gold Star there, on display inside. I was just about to get all teary-eyed upon seeing it, until I noticed that some cad had swapped the original GP carb for a Mikuni. I immediately instructed my batsman to burn a feather for me, as I'm sure you'll understand. On a more serious note, I have to double-down on my claims about Gold Stars and their low-end performance, but with a proviso. I don't think I mentioned that all the racing. and almost all the street DBD34s around these parts had the "intake cam on both sides" factory recommended mod done to them, which as you know resulted in a nice bunch of additional RPM and ponies. In short, they weren't Thumpers anymore. That cam switch, which was called the "road racing" mod in the original manual, was so common here that I neglected to mention it.
I may also have neglected to point out that our head-to-head drag races between bikes always included lighting up the rear wheel, on both dirt and pavement. Riders who had more money than brains might choose to slip the clutch instead of spinning the rear, but that almost never gave the same results. So, maybe it's the combination of the cam mod and our drag racing starts that provided the different results?
And finally, I had to smile when I saw you mention your T110. That was my first proper circuit race bike (until I saw the TT live for the first time this year, I always referred to it as "road racing", I've learned better.) That T110 engine was capable of handling an amazing amount of tweaking and tricking-out. The guy who built mine was an ex-pat Scot named Gus Murdoch, who I think had a pretty decent reputation as a tuner when he was still in the UK. He managed to make that Triumph a whole lot faster than I ever was. I was always running out of talent long before it ran out of power, not that that was too difficult.
Damn, this got long in a hurry.
Terrific seeing and hearing the fuel mist in the Amal GP !
Brilliant loved watching the slide operation in the carb and vibration and noise a dream of a ride. Gorgeous to look at many, thanks for the memories.
OMG ... the DB 34 ... The smell of Castrol R ... brings back my bike days of the 60s... Nottingham to Matlock Bath ...
Well, if you use the 65-6442 inlet and 65-6446 exhaust cams, make sure you have a nimonic 80 exhaust valve and 1 1/2" GP carburettor, RRT2 close ratio box and my prefrence being the 8" front brake in Dunlop alloy rims it should go like s*** off a shovel. Of course make sure that the magneto is capable of running up to 7,000 engine speed and the valves are set at 0.006" clearance, spanner being rotated away form the centreline as seen from the timing side else you'll be on the wrong face of the cams. Don't exceed 7,000 rpm on the 500cc else you'll be buying lots of engine parts. In Touring trim with touring cams and 1 5/32 TT carb. the 500 Goldie was good for 105mph (least that's what mine did just after I bought it) and with all the Clubmans bits fitted 112 to 115 mph. Great bike for an 18 year old........
Pity the wrong silencer, did not hear the Goldie whistle on overrun
+John Freemantle
As an ex Gold star owner myself I agree.
Yes that was a shame as nothing sounded like the Gold Star on overrun. Sent shivers down your spine!!
John Freemantle more like a Twitter than a Whistle
Had 500 and 350 loved them still do lot of great memories Ace Cafe to Busy Bee
Pity? He should be sent to the naughty step
OMG ... the DB 34 ... The smell of Castrol R ... brings back my bike days of the 60s... Nottingham to Matlock Bath ...
Whilst the sound is nice, it just does not compare to the original exhaust note and the famed "Goldie Twitter" . Otherwise a nice example of the marque.
How they think 🤔 that the lndian made fakir is worthy of the name Gold Star ⭐ is beyond me. One is a timeless classic British motorcycle and the other is just a piece of Chinesiom lndian style.Fried rice with curry. Not fish and chips.
So jealous! I'll never ever get rid of my 916 but I love Brit metal like this! She is beautiful!
Superb sound!!
WOW - what was the amount time of fully open throttle??? What a joke and waste of time.
God!! I needed that fix! I can't tell you what that did for me after browsing pre '64 Harleys for sale.!!!
i had one exactly like it , it never ran good , the lucas magneto was shit in those bikes .
sold it for a few hundred bucks , ............i wish i would have it now , they are worth a lot of money .
i would not ride it though , just sell it for big bucks , because i still think they are a piece of shit !
:)
I guess the power characteristics of bikes differ, but my '58 DBD34 is really cammy. It comes on very strong after about 5000 rpm, and doesn't really like sub 4000 rpm at all. I don't notice the low end grunt that some folks comment on here. I am the second owner, and still haven't gone through the engine and gearbox, as it runs well as is. Perhaps this next winter I will dig into it and figure out what cams are in it, etc.
Gregory; What you describe leads me to believe that your Gold Star has the cam combination I mentioned in another comment, using identical intake cams for exhaust and intake. I think the last two digits on the stamped part number was "51", but that's a guess.
Anyway, using that cam combination, which was called the "road racing" combination in the DBD34 user manual, resulted in the performance profile you mentioned, with not much happening until 5000 or so, and then it really starts to sing, pulling strongly to redline. It's easy to tell by the sound if that cam combination is being used, since the common "thump-thump" is replaced by a high-winding wail, very close to the sound of a big twin.
If you happen to have an original DBD34 owners manual, that cam combo is mentioned about halfway through. It's also easy to check by pulling the cam cover and checking the stamped part numbers. If you do have that set-up, and if you're running the original Amal GP carb, I'd suggest you make sure you're running the right sized main jet, since that cam combination makes the Gold Star VERY thirsty at the top end.
I just love the rrrrrrrr sound of the exhaust on the overrun. Just brilliant.
Shame its lost its "whistle"🤔
Why would you call it a cafe' racer and then put a touring fuel tank on it. The stock peanut would be better suited for cafe' racing? I had 66' hornet mk2 and had three bridge stone 90 and 100 cc. One with touring tank and two mountain 90s one with n one without. I'm telling you five gallons is a lot for a racing bike.
さすがゴールドスター、吸気音が凄い。若い時の憧れでした。日本🇯🇵のフアンより。
A proper bike . Not like the shit hybrids thy churn out now .
If this video was meant to make me jealous it worked
Love that view down inside the carb. %upporting 340 I am making my own BSA video today.
Which was better, the goldie or the Norton?
i BOUGHT MINE WITH A STANDARD GEAR BOX, NOT THE RRT2
650 Bao nhieu mot chiet vay
Whatta great film....BSA was mandated to provide 'working class transportation' ..
..and no-one can belt out Easy Livin' in Karaoke like me....but, okay....send the bike to Canada, we'll accept it. thx in advance.
It’s on its way. Love to Canada.
If I covet anything in this world, it's a GOLDSTAR! If yours ever comes up missing, alert the cops to my location. BTW, very fartsy-artsy the camera placement. Good thing ya removed the air clnr. (PLEASE don't tell me that you cruise about w/out one?!)
Une vraie moto, tres jolie...
Just a legend cafe racers rule good old goldstar
I had one of these In 1966.🤮
I can tell just by looking that it's not a period muffler. Pity that. I never heard a Gold Star but it's just to obvious. My dad rode BSAs and I know what the 650s sounded like. None of the new bikes have that awesome sound. I almost bought a Gold Star once upon a time, $50. It was in boxes. I wish I had done so now.
STUFF THE MUZAK!
Sounds beautiful. You could have used that rasping exhaust as the theme music as well.
just dawn on me the logic of the key access being on the same side as the kick start pedal. great viewing from the slide. and thanks for saving the music for last... love that album. i ride a fully restored 68 tr6r triumph trophy sports, gave a $ a cc for it back at ft. bragg in 72. restored it in 2012, -gilpin 12-18-15
yep i want one!
love that carb-o-vision!
That's pretty damn cool seeing that slide go up and down in that carb, I'm also cringing hoping to God that I do not see anything fly in that velocity stack, my gosh brother put a screen on it, like playing Russian roulette with a $15,000 bike! 😲, And by the way brother she is absolutely gorgeous, very lucky man.
The original Goldie has something about it that no other bike of that period had, sexy looks and sound was magic,its almost mystical like the Spitfire.
As I said, just something about it made it very special..still does for me.
I was never a Goldie fan the Manx was more my cup of tea the feather bed made it handle better and it was just more reliable. Even my old Matchbox CSR had more tickle but the Goldie did turn into a nice Cafe racer
Looks are amazing !
My father has a 72 BSA thunder bolt, I am currently putting together a 74 oil in frame BSA cafe racer. My brother owns a BSA scrambler I think is 78. Pretty much all the same bike but different flavor,
Super glad the cafe racer style has came back the last ten years!
nice bike ^_^
The was the shit, man!! What a camera angle, lookin' straight down the carb!! Good stuff...thanks!
Agree with 1400driver, novel camera position watching the big GP working, I imagine thr Goldie (or the Velo Thruxton) are the only bikes you could do that with, I kept thinking the camera was going to disappear up the inlet. Cheers, Dave
My friend had one very similar to yours around 1970 maybe. I had a 500cc Norton ES2 at the time but so wanted a Gold Star with a close ratio box! :-)
BSA are one of the best Cafe Racers;I would prefer the front forks without the rubber covering.
wonderful ,,, DB 34 ,, throttling off gave out a whistle ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, anybody what caused that ???
+Yang Yang whistle caused by overlap of the exhaust valve
cheers Mick ,,,, we sat and debated hours from the exhaust' to the valves to the even to the timing ... and the smell of Castrol'R' wonderful days.. cheers again Mick just sold my Ducati 750 SS getting a bit heavy.
Hello Yang Yang, maybe the air still being sucked into a restricted carb venturi.
A small hole in exhaust pipe.
There's something about an old 500 single
Sounds like its running rich on the needle. Lean it out a little. Nice bike.
@popsztej thanks, the song is from Uriah Heep: Easy livin'. I will try to make another movie as soon as possible.
I'd love a Goldie. Maybe I should sell the rest of the shed and buy one.
Jesus christ! That is the best sounding bike since the Norton 18
Thanks for the 10 000 views guys! Next video of the BSA Gold Star should be ready in 2 months, after winter.
it's Easy Livin' from Uriah Heep...
/watch?v=DKxZY0DIxIk
Cool, wasnt sure as it sounded like John Lord on keyboard
awesome bike bro, i like seeing that carb slide go up and down....
WHAT EVERY CAFE RACER ..... TRIES TO LOOK LIKE!
i owned a BSA dbd34 gold star for about six or seven year in the late sixties early seventies,they were then the most unreliable bikes ever made,i could write a book about mine,i lost count of how many times the engine was stripped down because something was wrong internally,the timing could never be set properly ,oil leaks ,the electrics shook to pieces ,the kick starter broke starter quadrant and cog regularly broke too,in their favour they are beautiful looking bike,
@Tabourba thanks for reply should got back sooner, we are entitled to an opinion, I am what is known as an old timer in your part of the world , back in those days you learnt hands on, there was little money to lavish on bikes, might not be the sharpest knife in the box but learn't the hard way, I still own bikes, I recently sold my Buell XB12 Lightning, and now own a 1200 Indian new plus two vintage bikes, talking of reliability, I owned Honda 90 which I covered 16000 mile it never missed a beat,
Love the tank on this beautiful motorcycle
waiting for the whistle lol beuty bike bro
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awesome bell mouth intake, man! love the view of it too!👍
MY NINJA R 12 2ND GEAR IS ENOUGH FOR YOUR GOLD STAR.
im 72 that rely took me back there , Nice.
Mine was a 1961 Clubmans DBD 34, beautiful bike.
OMG ... the DB 34 ... The smell of Castrol R ... brings back my bike days of the 60s... Nottingham to Matlock Bath ...
just great dbd34gs my dream,never got one,got t140, triton t120, norton atlas, A7 ,shoting star never be able to found or afford a dbd 34gs, but how nose i still got place in to the work shop
Hope you find one Randhall, I had a 1961 Clubmans, wish I still had it.
i'm still searching one barn find
No air cleaner on carb not good !
Listen to it....This is music..
What is this song? Its great! Nice bike :)
very niche video! thank you for sharing.
Uriah heep good intro
Nice vid - but what's that abomination on the end of the downpipe?
Yes what is it
Sound like a RRT2 Gearbox.
ya gotta love a thumper
where is the whistle ?
Yes, it is a RRT2 Gearbox
URIAH HEEP
Deep purple
The sund to die for
Exactly HOW tall is the first gear?...i.e., at what speed do you grab & grope second?
+Amélie Renoncule ..with the close ratio gearbox ,it would do 70 in first gear , and nearly 130 in 4th gear
conan howard An 'effort' taking off from a stop? Any clutgh-slipping needed?
My Parisian ride: i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa413/zuzulo56/BSAThunderbolt1968_zps892e38c3.jpg
you had to slip the clutch up to at least 30mph
conan howard Yuck! Forced I would be to change ze sprocket(s).
+around 75mphAmélie Renoncule
Very nice !
holyyy
What happened to BSA?
+Nino Schier They went bust , m8 . Such a shame
Complacency.
Nino Schier :- They went broke because of poor management .
Very nice bike, but very expensive and rare ....
I own a Royal Enfield Clubman 500, by Watsonian England.
It sounds almost the same, bt it's the poor man's Goldstar
nice film
keep the knees in the breeze....
Had one in 1960 great bike great fun enjoyed ❤️
The ultimate rockers machine , god I miss mine , I am so jealous, ride safely brother .
OMG ... the DB 34 ... The smell of Castrol R ... brings back my bike days of the 60s... Nottingham to Matlock Bath ...
Stunning