BRITISH STEEL Abroad

I've owned this BSA A65 Lightning for a few months and thought I'd share its story with you. According to BSA records, NG 02328 was produced in October 1971 as a 1972 model. In those months at Small Heath, the bitter end was approaching fast and I found little information from those days. The previous owner passed the DVLA documents to me, which showed the first UK registration date in March 1992 to a Mr Bond of Bury St Edmunds. He was followed in March 1995 by Mr Boon in Colchester. But what happened between the years 1971 and 1992? It dawned on me that the papers were incomplete!

Mr Boon obviously did not enjoy the BSA, as a few months after he bought it the bike crossed the Channel to a German