If you’ve got been following the story of the BSA Company revival previously few years, chances are high wonderful that you could have a couple of unanswered questions. While new BSA Gold Star 650 motorcycles have been trickling out to clients within the UK and choose different European markets, no matter occurred to the plans for a UK manufacturing facility?

We’ll get there in a second, however first, this is a teensy little bit of needed historical past. As it’s possible you’ll recall, the Mahindra and Mahindra-owned Classic Legends acquired BSA all the way back in 2016. If you prefer to observe classic motorbike marques that come again from the useless like we do, it’s possible you’ll acknowledge that Classic Legends is also the parent company of Jawa and Yezdi. Yezdi bikes are offered in India; whereas Jawas are primarily additionally offered there, the model can be presently exported to Europe.

Now that you’ve got a greater grasp on Classic Legends, let’s get again to BSA. Back in November 2020, Classic Legends spoke with each the Guardian and the Financial Times within the UK about its bold built-in-Britain bike plans. Talk at the moment revolved round a UK authorities grant to construct a brand new technical and design facility in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in addition to a separate manufacturing facility facility close to Coventry.

Publicly mentioned plans for the new-gen BSA bikes additionally revolved round providing two powertrain choices: A combustion model and a newly-developed electrical model. Even higher, all of the components for the electrical model (with the attainable exception of the battery packs) had been deliberate to be constructed within the UK as properly. Sounds nice, proper? 

And then, after all, you realize a few of what occurred if you happen to’ve been alive and paying consideration since 2020. While BSA and Classic Legends have not explicitly said that the onset of a worldwide pandemic threw a little bit of a wrench into their plans, at this level, it feels sort of like a given. It’s a pure catastrophe of a distinct kind than we’re used to considering, however its influence and attain are nonetheless plain.

Fast Forward To 2024, And Things Seem To Be Moving Forward

According to a current report in India’s Economic Times, Classic Legends plans to go forward with constructing that UK manufacturing facility finally. Even higher, the agency desires to do it beginning someday in its subsequent fiscal yr, which begins in April 2024. Since it is the again half of February 2024 as we write this, the beginning of that new FY is developing quick.

Further particulars have not been made public simply but, however RideApart has reached out to BSA to inquire about its plans for the brand new facility. We’ll you should definitely replace this piece with any info we be taught.

For now, although, we’re sort of taking a look at it like these first seedlings you see poking their heads above floor in spring. They’re not large, lovely greenery simply but, however simply seeing them begin is its personal sort of hope.