1967 Bsa Advertising And Burt Munro

[Rocky]

Over the weekend I acquired a November 1966 copy of CycleWorld magazine.
In it was a colour sales brochure for the 1967 BSA range of bikes which is the main reason I got it.
We have some of these models in our vintage bike club and it makes me smile when I see then nearly every week.
As most of you know I'm the proud owner of a 1967 BSA 441cc Victor Roadster, but only the Victor scrambler model is shown in the advert.

It also has a picture of Burt Munro on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1966.

 

[Village Idiot]

I must be getting old..................I remember those ads!!
Jim

 

[Rocky]

I see that one picture didn't post (which is probably my fault) so here it is.

 

[Rocky]

I must be getting old..................I remember those ads!!
Jim

I dropped out of motorcycles from 1958 until 1992 so never saw any of those adverts or paid any attention to bikes again until I retired in '92.
I joined a vintage bike club in 1994 and have been catching up ever since

 

[Village Idiot]

Oddly, the ad doesn't show the "Wasp", which was the 500cc counterpart to the "Hornet"; or, maybe, it was dropped from the lineup by that time.
Jim

 

[Rocky]

Oddly, the ad doesn't show the "Wasp", which was the 500cc counterpart to the "Hornet"; or, maybe, it was dropped from the lineup by that time.
Jim

You're right! According to my sources there was a Wasp in 1967 and then it was dropped. Possibly by the end of the year it was being phased out and no longer cataloged.

 

[Village Idiot]

It was their reply to the Triumph 500cc competition models, but I do believe that it was too heavy to really be effective. I'm sure that BSA used the same engine cases for both large and small twins..........Triumph didn't, which had to save weight.
Just the "village idiot's" scrambled memory "kicking in": Jim

 

[triumph david]

These adds bring back some memories, the year after i graduated from HS, i almost bought a lightning a year after that, wish i had.