For anyone wondering when the revived BSA Motorcycles would finally debut its first new model in decades, that location is no coincidence. After all, the brand started life as the Birmingham Small Arms Company.
The newly relaunched BSA Motorcycles has announced plans to make its public return during the 2021 edition of the U.K.’s biggest motorcycle show of the year—Motorcycle Live, which runs from December 4 through 12, 2021 at the NEC Birmingham—short for National Exhibit Centre—in England.
However, Mahindra hasn’t said much about what to expect from its fledgling motorcycle company.
What we do know is that BSA will make a splash at the U.K.’s Motorcycle Live show in Birmingham in December 2021, where BSA will officially unveil the new model.
That’s currently about all we have to go on, with no details of engine displacement or design even being hinted at so far.
The revival of the British motorcycle brand is now official. BSA (Birmingham Small Arms Company) first folded in 1919 after more than a century of motorcycles, and it’s only now that the brand will be revived, with a first new bike on sale in 2022.
Model names
As per their website, once you register, you will be able to see names like
- A65,
- Golden Flash, Bantam,
- Gold Star, Blazer,
- Lightning, Silver Star, and
- Spitfire.
Under motorcycle option of the main menu. However, the motorcycle name menu is not activated.
Since the parent company introduced its Jawa and Yezdi Classic Legends models, we’ve seen a great deal of interest in the BSA marque. Fans who grew up dreaming about owning a Gold Star or Spitfire can now get one that bears the same name, only with modern components and performance.
We get why that would be attractive to riders. And we think it makes sense for Classic Legends to keep the door open on making more modern BSA bikes, perhaps carrying over model names from the past. After all, if they revamp a group of traditional models, people will start asking what else is left.
Future
The new BSA is promising that the future bikes will be electric, autonomous, and connected somehow. Whether that’s done via Intel technology or otherwise remains to be seen, but for this relaunch, it appears the company is planning to use a variety of technologies to help it separate itself from its more mainstream competitor.
Learning which models, if any, are returning, what they’ll be like, and when to expect them is, of course, still strictly a matter of speculation for now.
That said, the flood of retro-modern bike brand revivals of late suggests that potential buyers can’t seem to get enough of these bikes.
And with new bike sales just reovering, it only seems like a matter of time before harkening back to our past comes into play yet again. Therefore, let us see how it goes from here.
Source: BSA
