There were a number of variations of this bike:
BSA Boxer
BSA GT50
An incomplete BSA Brigand - only picture I could find
I can't remember ever seeing any of these, so I've no idea how few were built or sold. At the time there was a very small market for these in the UK (16 year olds), and there were plenty of Japanese and Italian bikes (along with the DDR built Simson) that did the same thing for about the same price.
I had one of the BSA GT50 bikes. Whereas a lot of the jap peds had flaky chrome and garish paint jobs, this looked much more upmarket with stainless brightwork and a tasteful black and gold look. I had to return the Boxer side panels and had them replaced with GT50 ones, because BSA said BMW had complained about them using the Boxer name! Lovely intro to motorcycling.
ReplyDeletehad a gt50 boxer in the same colour as above - used to go like crazy if you removed the silencer !!!!
ReplyDeletemy first bike at 16 and holds great memories - sreaming along lying on the tank !!!
I to used to have a boxer, my friend also had one mine slightly faster. The Boxer was the only unrestricted moped at the time this was to give BSA a better chance to sell. used to go Blackpool/Southport at the weekends a round journey of 90 miles, had 64mph slipstreaming behind a Mini? Great times and good memories!
ReplyDeleteI owned from new a white Brigand reg GWK680V AUG 79,it was purchased from K.D Motorcycles, Grayswood Avenue Coventry,£420 OTR.had it 5 months before it was stolen never to be seen again.great little moped only gripe was a ratchet kick start which was very irritating.
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