ABOVE: Starting with the 1968 BSA A65, the Spitfire Royal Star joined the lineup, as BSA’s premium offering, at least until the arrival of the Rocket 3 a year later. The A65 Firebird Scrambler was ...

This was the hot rod version of the A65, just behind the A65 Lightning. Like the Lightning, the Spitfire had twin Amal carbs (Amal Monoblocs would be standard for 1966; Amal Concentrics didn’t arrive ...

Retired photojournalist Doug Ball’s 1965 BSA Lightning roared in the Scottish motorbike racing circuit in the ’60s, tore around Quebec and Ontario in the ’70s, and is now back on the road again after ...

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