Lot details
Registration No: BPB 62K
Frame No: B50SS/KG01073
Engine No: B50SS/KG01073
cc: 500
MOT Expiry Date: None

Born at the end of the 'Great British Motorcycle Industry' era, and maybe a bit before it's time, the B50SS Gold Star was perhaps a precursor of a different era, yet to get into it's stride. The B50 Street Scrambler was little different to it's cousin the B50 T Victor, (a daylight off roader, more field than street) but both maybe gave the Japanese a few pointers where big macho knobbly bikes were concerned and set a style still popular today. Bearing the revered Goldie title a little heavily, very much to the chagrin and alienation of many BSA aficionados, BSA was clutching at any straw to make the products attractive, the B50 came with many of the usual shortcomings of a stretched and underdeveloped engine. Like most of it's forebears this engine could trace ancestry right back to the Triumph Terrier via Cub, C15, B15, B40 etcetera, and multitudinous problems could await the proud owner, particularly if said proud owner was a bit of a novice or at best an unsympathetic rider. Unsympathetic that is to a machine subject to oil leaks, short big end life and a tendency to destroy itself, if you could stand the escalating vibration long enough and still be in the saddle when it did. But we still love these old things anyway, and today all of the above can be considered sorted if modern materials and modifications, developed by a number of specialists from 40 odd years of experience and hindsight, are utilised.
This 1971 B50SS from the first year of manufacture looks to be an original and genuine example having all the right bits, not mint but in very usable order. In the doldrums for a long period this model is now becoming increasingly sought after and should provide the adventurous rider with endless entertainment for a relatively modest outlay.