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Yeah BSA's had a multitude of different badges over the years.
Probably the best known one...
You may have misinterpreted what I meant though. I was saying that the Kawasaki needs something better on the tank than what is pictured, but they can't get away with a Triumph badge which would be the icing on the cake so to speak.
Many here might remember the Kawasaki W650 which was a copy of the classic Triumph 650s. (snip)
I was never into Japanese bikes of that era, so I don't know ... but wasn't the Kaw 650 a copy of the BSA 650's and not the Triumph?
If not Kawasaki, who was it who built a copy of the BSA unit twin 650's? I've seen a couple of them on the street, never stopped to look at them too closely.
I was never into Japanese bikes of that era, so I don't know ... but wasn't the Kaw 650 a copy of the BSA 650's and not the Triumph?
No...I think it definitely was a Triumph clone...from a distance, they were tough to tell apart.
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If not Kawasaki, who was it who built a copy of the BSA unit twin 650's? I've seen a couple of them on the street, never stopped to look at them too closely.
I can't think of one personally. Yamaha produced the XS650 which also looked very close to the later Triumphs....
I had one of those, a 1975 XS650B. It was a great bike, and very pretty too, with its black-and-gold paint scheme. It was buzzy over about 70 mph, but tolerable (at least in those days!).
KoobleKar: That's the BSA tank badge I was thinking of!
That might be nice to have real chrome and enamled badges back on bikes. The cheesy junk these days is terrible on a lot of bikes a sticker or a decal.
Probably the Brits had the best of the best badges. I can't recall a lot of the names anymore, but the Royal Enfiled and Nortons all did, Atlas too.
It was the Kawasaki Meguro bike I'm thinking of ... so close to a BSA that the BSA factory tooling worked on it. A unit twin 650CC, IIRC. They also did a BMW R-50 replica bike.
It was the Kawasaki Meguro bike I'm thinking of ... so close to a BSA that the BSA factory tooling worked on it. A unit twin 650CC, IIRC. They also did a BMW R-50 replica bike.
From reading a little bit on that bike, it seems that Kawasaki bought a motorcycle company called Meguro which actually built the bike and they were then badged as Kawasakis.
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