The BSA Spitfire Hornet ('64-'65) and Hornet ('66-'67) (and the 500cc BSA Wasp) were developed by BSA in 1964 as purpose built off-road and desert racer motorcycles in response to demand from the US market for a 'stripped down' BSA Lightning with more power.

2019年10月20日 · Previously raced by Bobby Winters, this is a BSA Wasp drivetrain in a Ken Swanson dirt track frame. It has since been ‘completely rebuilt using NOS parts’ and is in display mode – if you want to ride it again, you’ll be breaking in the motor has it hasn’t even seen oil since the work was done.

2019年1月23日 · The BSA Hornet was developed on the same A65 platform as the British motorcycle marque’s Lightning model, to satiate demand from the United States for a stripped back desert racer to compete with the Triumph TR6C and the Norton P11.

2024年11月6日 · It has the original (and unobtainable) folding competition pegs and a proper Hornet frame, with the all-important original silencer mounting tabs and a few other Hornet specific lugs. The seat is off some other kind of BSA, possibly an earlier Star Twin, or a Wasp, rather than the humped Hornet original.

I'm a big fan of powder coating. I feel it is the closet finish to the original factory application, but without the original runs and dried drips. It can be applied as gloss, semi-gloss, or a flat finish. It covers very evenly, and in my opinion has less preparation than a wet spray application.

2019年1月25日 · For the 1966 model year, BSA dropped the "Spitfire" from the bike's name, improved the oiling, added a quick-change gearbox sprocket, and offered it in a new, deep-red color called Cherokee Red....

When Page once rescued a load of BSA glassfibre tanks' metal filler necks and caps from scrap, he noticed dozens of them were blue, suggesting they were for Wasps. But its seems BSA produced only tiny numbers of its dirt 500. And why equip a dirt machine with road treads and a centre stand? Probably because the Wasp's spec was only provisional ...

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2023年11月7日 · Helping a friend get an A50 Wasp back on the road. Normally I am fan of reusing pistons and coating pistons, but in this case the pistons/bore are not appropriate to reuse. It is a standard bore at present and should clean up with 0.020 to 0.040" over.

The BSA Hornet (and the 500cc BSA Wasp) were developed by BSA in 1964 as purpose built off road and 'desert racer' motorcycles in response to demand from the US market for a 'stripped down' BSA Lightning with more power.