NEW! BSA Gold Star Shadow Black | Special Edition | A Great Real-World Modern Classic Motorcycle!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- We have a look at the brand new BSA Shadow Black, special edition on the BSA stand at Motorcycle Live 2023 at the NEC in Birmingham.
This stunning modern classic motorcycle has a more blacked-out paint finish, with accents of silver. It is a real head-turner! It is priced at less than the other paint finishes too! A real bargain! We loved it!
We also show the original BSA Gold Star from the old days! What a stunning classic motorcycle that is!
Let us know in the comments section whether you'd like to see us review the Shadow Black model!
We reviewed the BSA Gold Star a number of times on the channel. Check out those videos to find out how it rides! Unfortunately, no sight of the BSA Scrambler.
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I was admiring the shadow black edition while you were filming this yesterday. It's definitely the one I'd go for and the cheapest too. Very tempting.
Beautiful bike, but I want that damn scrambler!
I bumped in to you on Monday at the Norton stand had a quick chat. Of all the mega expensive bikes, I thought the Black BSA Goldstar was the standout bike for me, be getting one of them, just needs a tail tidy and bar end mirrors 👍
Yes we really liked the BSA. Our Norton video is coming out today at 4 👍🏼 Great to meet you 👍🏼
It's a beautiful looking bike but there's one thing that I really dislike about this bike. It's the engine cover. Ol' Man mentioned the same in one of the previous videos featuring BSA and he couldn't be more correct.
Thank you Mr. Darcy for providing us with a sneak peak into the NEC in Birmingham, I'll be there on Saturday.
I hope that manufacturers listened to the Ol' Man and there are few new models with proper mudguards and centred dials!
Thank you for another great review.
I liked the chrome finished bikes when they first came out and still do, but the black finish looks simpler and I like it.
Black one looks killer
Looks great doesn’t it!
Hard to choose between the Black and Legacy editions, they both look great. Shame the black one hasn't got the polished engine casings but it is £1000 cheaper. Would be nice to have one of each.😊
Good strategic move to make a financially more accessible motorcycle by blacking it out. This worked well for Ducati with the „Dark“ versions because chrome and real paint costs more.
Loved the Black edition. It gives a more stealthy look. Currently we have no dealer for BSA.
Love the GoldStar me - must get me another go!
This and the RE Bullet 350 are two new great-looking classic bikes!
Definitely like the black better. I’m not a fan of chrome. Easy pick for me. The silver sheen looks good, and for those who like a little shine, it looks a good option.
I'm shouting out from Oklahoma USA and I'm pretty sure everyone here owns Harley, Honda or BMW and a scattering of the other big three mostly in the form of rice rockets. We've had four motorcycle deaths in our city alone in the past two months. There is however a class here that like the Keanu Reeves models er i guess Cafe bikes? And I've seen them here in the 'hip' areas but not many. I like the bike but if I were going to be hip . . It's bmw or motoguzzi. Stay cool ride safe! I enjoy your videos.
Love this bike, thanks for covering it guys. Seems fortunes are improving for BSA which is good news all round!
If only I could afford one...
I know chrome dont get you home but bling is my thing.
"Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em"
They drive me out of my mind. How can I leave this behind.
Beautiful, traditionally styled MOTORbikes! The glorious black version is particularly stunning and I am happy it is not the fugly flat(ass) black that here in the USA is called "murdered out". HD did this so often than it's as if it spread like the offspring of close relatives at family reunions. They multiply like rabbits as they are wont to do and so too did the fugly "murdered out" HDs throughout their "family" lineup.
The silver version is also quite loverly and is an excellent contrast to the black BSA. We here in the "colonies" will probably never see these on our roads. I can comfort myself with a touch of "sour grapes" (LOL!) by mentioning they've got balloons in their tires so I wouldn't buy one anyway. ;-)
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Love the chrome version. All we need now is for them to get their fingers out and bring them in to Australia.
At the right price, they'd sell like hot cakes, here. Especially in Melbourne.
It seems strange that they are making special editions when most people have had no opportunity to actually see one at a local dealer due to their not being a local dealer... Odd way to run a business.
I have a dealer an hour away from me Cooperb motorcycles and they have them in all the time.
Good to hear. They have only managed 1 dealer in Scotland but, to be fair, RE have only managed to have 4. @@MrDarcy-OlMan
thanks for showing us around ;; more would be welcome ,,
There is some more to come 👍🏼
1:43 - '& if you need better brakes than that, you're not riding it properly!' . . .'Yes Constable,'. : )
One of the things I love about this bike is its a Rotax Designed Engine, Rotax designs good engines, Buell used a Rotax Engine in its 1125r a 140 HP V Twin, many many and I mean a lot of Air Planes use Rotax Engines medium and small planes, they have been making engines for over 60 years this is a very good engine. I like this bike.
Must say that the old, original chrome one, towards the end of the video, knocks spots off the new ones, is terms of aesthetics, even though the new ones are undoubtably more capable in the real world.
Damn… this baby is gorgeous (the Black)!
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The Indian engineers do a good job at keeping things looking good, the only reason i can imagine it being wide is because of Euro emissions required tech.
my first motorcycle was a 1967 BSA 650 Hornet in 1972. it was chopped it had 3 different thread bolts, metric, SAE and Whitworth Spanners. Areal learning experience.
When one of your friends asks you "Do you mind me asking what you paid for your bike"? and your answer is, "not as much as the three socket sets and three rolls of spanners that I need to work on it", you've got to wonder about your choices.
I would have seriously considered one but the Rotax lump kills the retro style for me with a huge rad and really poorly finished casings
Silver Sheen is lovely. Black Shadow/Stealth is very cool but would have been cooler with no silver casings or chrome shocks.
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Yes looks an unfinished bike
Well they need to bring the tubeless tyre variant in order to compete with Interceptor 650 which offers the alloy wheels tubeless tyre variant as a option in developing countries where roads are bad filled with nails , glass shards , pointy stones etc.
they are trying to do what enfield did with classic stealth black variant and also in hunter, powder-coated black parts to reduce the cost, looks very good though.
Love the black one👍🏻
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I like the Stealth black edition ....But I think they should have blacked out the whole engine while they were at it.
❤ the shadow black edition - it is cool 😎
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Almost exactly to the dollar of my '23 blue SV650 abs. Sorry, but I'll stay with the little V twin. I know it'll be running nicely in 10 years.
Made in Japan, not Calcutta 😅
And Suzuki will probably still be making them in 10 years. That 650 engine has been on the market in one form or another for 24 years. Suzuki got it right, the first time.
Bike looks great, both the black version & the chrome. Hope they come to Canada. PS - you are having too much fun! :) Ronny
Look great with fully enclosed rear shocks
Gorgeous!
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Shadow Black? Seems that BSA is trying to steal valour from the Vincent Black Shadow.
The trouble for me is whenever an original BSA is shown next to the new one the original still in a class above. Although a competitive price the new BSA does not offer enough to me to replace my 865 Bonneville or add to the stable of bikes. Maybe if they offered a scrambler variant?
These babies ooze style through their exhausts! 😍
Your wife's friends?😅
@@richarddevaottien7724 🤣
This thing looks great!!! Much better than standard BSA. I really wish BSA would give us more info on whether they're coming to North America or not
Hope you hear soon 👍🏼
Nice bikes but they need a six speed!
If you take the cost of those early BSA's and adjust for inflation, you may be surprised what they would cost today. 😎
Saw the black BSA at show yesterday and my interceptor could be going part ex for as I bumped into the saff from eddy's motor cycle dealers from taddy the only think that looks naff on the black BSA is the exhaust welded in the middle like an after thought sorry to say they should have ground it some come on BSA or am being to picky
We were there yesterday also 👍🏼
I sold mine I had issues with it cutting out I traded it in for a new triumph
Don't think you were the only one either.
I do like the black one, though polished engine cases would have been better. And if they insisted on painted engine cases they should have gone gloss black.
The mat black exhaust looks a bit cheap as well. A stainless system would have been better. And I see they still haven;t addressed that humungous radiator.
Still, for the money, they're fine looking bikes. As long as they don't turn orange when exposed to the British climate.. I still have serious misgivings about that on the BSAs and the Enfields.
Looks great in black. Maybe someday we'll see it in the states 🙄
💯 hope it gets there soon 👍🏼
If they could lose the ugly radiator and fit a centre stand, oh and lose the mid pipe weld this bike could be awesome at this price,the scrambler needs to be sorted by now,just saying 😀 👍
Wot's that radiator-looking thing up front, there? Ooh, I see. So nope....
Exactly, I mean if you have to have one at least make it more discreet.
Most other bikes have one the same. No big deal.
Have you never seen a radiator on a bike before?
Have you even sat on a bike?😂
@@splodge5714 Don't be ridiculous, I have owned dozens of bikes, over 40 actually and have no problem with radiators but this one is ridiculously out of proportion to the BSA. My 690 is in a far higher state of tune but has a much smaller radiator than that monstrous thing. The BSA radiator is bigger than the radiator on a Triumph 1200 . I suggest you take a visit to Specsavers if you cant see that.
I don't know, it looks even more cheaply built in black then in the other color options. I just feel like that dropped the ball/missed the mark with this bike.
A black paint job doesn't mean a new model... to be honest I think BSA are missing out by not introducing cafe racer and scrambler versions of the bike... after all the original BSA'S had a clubman spec and scrambler... c'mon BSA... Digitum Extractum...
Mahindra who own BSA, share price has doubled in two years.
Would be fab to see the Stealth Black being black rather than mostly black - it looks like BSA forgot to tell the manufacturing team to produce all parts in black! A cool concept, and will look great when finished in black!!
Where are they made? Electric start?
Yes has electric start and they are made in India 👍🏼
India, but they can easily be sterilized with diluted bleach😅
front drum brake ?
On the original.
In my honest opinion I think that the original Gold Star was hugely better looking than the modern retro copy
It looks good at first glance.. but.. those engine casings still look plastic and I think the grey stripe is unnecessary and detracts from the overall look.. no stripe and black engine case finish would be better… it’s good, but visually it’s not quite there.. I really wish it was.
Do they smell like curry?😅
The Engine is designed in Austria, so no, they don't. As I always say, we can fix a lot of things these days but Stupid is not one of them lolololol