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BSA A10???


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Ive just bought this, I bought it as an A10, the numbers point to it being a Gold Flash but the number plate search for insurance says it is an A65 Thunderbolt.  Does anyone know for sure what it is.



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Hi Trevor and congrats on a good choice of old Brit iron biggrin

The "only" difference between the Golden Flash and the Super Rocket was the alloy head and lumpy pistons. The cam and barrels were the same.

Yours looks to have a cast iron head (am I right?) in which case it's more likely to be a Golden Flash.

If you are using the Carole Nash website then it's pants unfortunately evileye  It tried to tell me my Flash was a Super Rocket and I ended up spending a long time on the phone with Carole Nash giving the correct details and getting a quote.

I confess to not having seen either model in your ivory or cream colour. Was it possibly a police bike?

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The picture doesn't do the paint justice it is a light gold colour, but looks a bit beige.  It will be painted the correct colour soon, once I have had the spectrometer on it.



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Ah - so the original Golden Flash colour - mine is "British" black. Most of the gold ones were exported to the States.

Don't agonise over the correct shade of gold - see the following copied from the A7/A10 forum at https://www.a7a10.net/forum/index.php -

 

"If you are in the UK Polly Palmer @ Bri-Tie Motorcycles in Wales has correct colour matches for sale.


Now as to the "correct" colour. It is a pile of puss, there is no such thing once BSA stopped using vitreous enamel.
The paint for each day was mixed by the day shift foreman by hand for the scheduled production on that day with the available measuring material of the day so no two batches were absolutely the same.
Next, the parts were sprayed by hand by a team of spray painters and no two painter will spray parts to identical colours.
Add to that the paint store was not accessible by the night shift so if they were running short because one of the painters was spraying a bit too thick, then the mix got thinned a bit to finish the run.

Our oldest riding member bought the first A10 plunger in NSW (in Australia also he thinks ) and one of his favourite stories is how when he went to pick up his bike. He refused the one that the dealer had prepared for him. He made them swap all of his accessories from one bike to another. The reason? Out of the first batch of 14 Golden Flashes there was only 1 that was the same colour gold from one end to another . On some he reckons that every part was a different shade of gold so if you had one of them then you could make 7 different "original" Golden Flash golds depending upon which "original" part you picked to match.

Now the first production run was overpainted with gold on black which is why they have a greenish tinge as it was to be a limited edition colour. When it became a standard production colour then the top coat was over a red, blue or cream undercoat and each one of these combinations yields a different end colour as the base coat shows through the top coat.

Spare parts were all finished black then either despatched in that state for the dealer to colour match at replacement or colour coated at the factory if they were to be sold over the counter for the customer to fit.

While this spiel will not necessarily help you to find an acceptable colour silver, it will hopefully it will stop you pulling out your hair while bashing you head against a brick wall trying to obtain some thing that does not actually exist. " 



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Very interesting, thanks.



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There are similar discussions about polychromatic blue paint on Nortons!

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Nice bike Trev. I sold an A10 Gold Flash I had a few years ago.
The A65 Thunderbolt was a unit construction (along with it's smaller brother the A50). The A10 was a pre-unit.

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Rocket Gold Star one of the prettiest bikes ever, swept backs and goldies.
Just saying!!

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Trevor, I know nothing about old Brit bikes, although I like the look of your one.

But if it was a thread for 'Name That Lane', I'd go for Forder Lane, Bishopsteignton!



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Trevor, I know nothing about old Brit bikes, although I like the look of your one.

But if it was a thread for 'Name That Lane', I'd go for Forder Lane, Bishopsteignton!


 Correct,  it's about as far as I dare go. Really struggling with the right-hand gear change. 

I'll get used to it 

Trev 



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Hi Trevor!

Just a quick heads up that there is a great article on the A10 in this month's Classic Bike!

It is possible to buy just the one mag at £4.40 posted to your door

See here

Brian 

 



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Thanks 



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