BSA has been within the information for fairly a while now, what with its resurrection from the useless a number of years in the past and its legendary Gold Star title being revived final yr. Now, the Indian-owned British marque has filed emblems for 3 of its yesteryear fashions – Lightning, Thunderbolt and Bantam – within the USA, Australia and New Zealand.

BSA Lightning, Thunderbolt, Bantam names trademarked

The new-age BSA Gold Star stays true to its heritage from yesteryear, sporting a large-capacity single-cylinder engine of practically the identical displacement. Now, if the producer have been to implement that philosophy to the Lightning and Thunderbolt names, each of them could be reincarnated as modern-day 650cc parallel-twins, like their namesakes from a bygone period. Another risk is the event of an all-new larger-capacity engine, which is able to take the combat to the modern-day retros from Triumph, Kawasaki and BMW which might be a step up when it comes to energy and options from the Gold Star.

If the Lightning and Thunderbolt names are aimed on the extra premium finish of the market, the Bantam title is aimed on the smaller-capacity and extra accessible finish of the spectrum. The BSA Bantam of yesteryear was a small 125cc 2-stroke machine that was fairly the path carver. 

Classic Legends, mum or dad firm of BSA, additionally owns Yezdi and Jawa, each of which have small-capacity single-cylinder engines within the 300-350cc class. So maybe, we might even see this platform on a BSA-badged bike if the corporate doesn’t develop one thing new. If the brand new Bantam have been to be true to its namesake, then the bike it may draw inspiration from is the Yezdi Scrambler, a motorcycle we discovered to be not only a dressed-up avenue bike, however fairly succesful off the overwhelmed path, after we reviewed it.

What these remaining manufacturing bikes will seem like is anyone’s guess, however contemplating how spot-on the new-age Gold Star appears, we’re in for fairly the retro-themed onslaught from BSA sooner or later.  

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