Get your thumper here, 69 BSA 441, CL, ct

[chuck peterson]

https://newhaven.craigslist.org/mcy/5685513223.html

My right leg hurts just looking at it, but as a 14yr old newsboy I stared at one thru a garage window almost every morning

[clubman]

Hard to find an unmolested and complete version of a 441. Looks like an easy resto.,price is reasonable. My first Brit bike was a '67 round barrel that we turned into an MX bike. Mine was fast and reliable. I'm still looking for a roadster version.

[oldbike54]

 Clubman , are you sure it was reliable ? My '68 441 Shooting Star , while fun when running , was probably the most unreliable MC I have ever owned . BSA managed to sell quite a few of these 441 Specials based on Jeff Smiths World MX championship in '68 , but that bike was truly "Special" .

 Dusty

[clubman]

Clubman , are you sure it was reliable ? My '68 441 Shooting Star , while fun when running , was probably the most unreliable MC I have ever owned . BSA managed to sell quite a few of these 441 Specials based on Jeff Smiths World MX championship in '68 , but that bike was truly "Special" .

 Dusty

I rode mine hard and let just anybody else who was brave enough ride it too. With light weight Cerriani forks it was a wheelie machine. Had to replace a gearbox oil seal and that was it. '67's had energy transfer ign.(no battery), if you got a good one it would run forever. 2nd owner raced in MX open class and had some success against the 2 strokes.

[Tom]

 You could buy this one instead.    http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/mcy/5681939291.html

[mjptexas]

A two wheeled incarnation of masochism.

[drlapo]

I rode a B25 in my college years.  Good bike served me well.
Now have a B50 and a tr25w

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

A friend asked me to work on his 441 Victor. I (jokingly) replied that "I'd rather jump naked into a swimming pool full of double edged razor blades" (Weird Al reference). He hasn't spoken to me since.

[tpeever]

A two wheeled incarnation of masochism.

Agreed!! I rebuilt and briefly owned a '69 441 Victor. Pretty bike but holy cow what a tricky bugger to start and what a shaker! Never ridden another motorcycle that vibrated like that one. Much prefer a TR6C or T100C.

[Tom]

 

[oldbike54]

 Was it Cook Nielson who used the Victor Vibro Scale to measure how badly a motorcycle vibrated ?
Yes , B40/44/50 series BSA's were raced successfully by several folks , but most MX'ers and off road racing singles from that era shook pretty badly , the large Too Smokers were like riding a giant vibrating rocking horse . These kids today with their counterbalanced 4 stroke race bikes with a mile of suspension travel don't know what it was like to race an open class Bultaco in a long moto , or a Gold Star in a 100 mile road race 

 Dusty

[Muzz]

Good while running, just an absolute pig to get running. About thirty kicks.

As someone has said, "my right leg hurts just thinking about it.