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The "BSA Otter",   2025 News page.

And Best Wishes for the New year from the BSA Otter team...

03/01/2025...

I hope 2025 is a better year for me... having seemingly lost most of 2024 to my illnes has not helped with any progress of the bike builds at the workshop, and being thirty miles from me, and me struggling to drive does not help...

But enough of me moaning we will have a new page for that coming up, we will call it "The Moaning Line" then you can all join in...

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After a mainly BSA year last year with a bit of Sun thrown in, the same again this year with several new BSA models coming to light...and write ups on theses too...

Brother Rich is working when he has time on the BSA Catalina Goldie 350 but he has his health problems too, and the bike will now not be ready for Telford show...

I will be doing more with the cycling side of the family, and filming events... Son Ross and his son (my Grandson) George are now well into Mountain Bike trail riding, and Lee will join in with some of the Meteor Works gravel bikes I am sure... I said to young George it is good training for when he wants to take the step up to the trials bikes...

I hope more of the young generation are thinking the same...

I will be doing a page on the Classic Trials Sidecar scene on the sixties when I have time, with some live input I hope.

So lets look forward with a positive eye on 2025...

10/02/2025...

Delays in posting has been down te vermin? well not quite but mice the keyboard type... trying to be green like we are told we all should be, I have been using battery powered mice (mouse times two) well like the battery car versions, both of my mice have died... but the Apple computor I have wont let me use a USB version because there is not a spare port, and using an adapter crashes the program, so where do we go from here... I have sent a mail to Elon to see if he can come up with an answer... So watch this space... More tomorrow...

PS, BSA Catalina nearly done, page coming...

25/01/2025...

New Page on ...A Tigress tale...enjoy...

22/01/2025...

A New Page coming on this little Gem of a bike and a Super Story...

Photo Courtesy Graziano Candidori...©...

22/01/2025...

The Comerfords Cub's page has been updated with the corrected information following contact with the man that built them Colin Morgan... Thank you Colin again ... and more later...

19/01/2025...

Well I am Back (Just) you know me if it is there to be caught, I catch it...Had a head cold on top of everything else that also closed my eyes, hence being absent...But have managed to update a load of pages...and more this week, and I will list them...Good one coming up on the Bantam Red T1 and T2 page...Saying that I bought a BSA Bantam rear hub...

Photo Courtesy Otterman...

Well checking through ebay as you do, I spied this said to be front Triumph Cub hub from Greystones, and thought that is a rear BSA Bantam hub, and it even said it had one broken bolt £25... I will have that I thought peering through me bad eyes, I hit the button...the next morning I had an email from Greystones saying it looked like they had made a mistake did I want a front hub..."No the one you have in the photo" I said. so they wrapped it up and sent it...Thank's Greystones Triumph Cub...

So to get something done this year I spent a couple or three hours in the cold shed at home drilling out the broken bolt and with out drilling right through as this weakens the hubs as you know, (if you read the Hubs page)...Also tapped it 7/32" x 26tpi...So what shall I use this for?.. 

05/01/2025...

Good days progress...

Photo Courtesy Event Design and Build...

Rich has had a good day on the "Catalina" despite his bad back...

Both guards now fitted, and the new engine and gearbox plates, and also the gearbox is now in, and front forks finished, and the bars look right too... I have loads of informatiom and photos for this build, and there will be more until the bike is finished... So I think I will do a New page on the BSA "Catalina" 350 Gold Star...

Photo Courtesy Event Design and Build...

The BSA Catalina 350 Goldie...

Most of the parts are now at the workshop, and Rich is building it up, all the chrome was re-done last year and if you remember I rebuilt the wheels up, they have now gone off to have the tyres fitted... we now have a pair of the correct EMGO 23-92400 handlebars for the bike and the missing rear mudguard stay brackets both sorced from our friends  at Classic Bike Parts Redditch...