This website is dedicated to Shaft Drive Sunbeam Motorcycles, that's the S7, S7 deluxe, and S8 models of 1946-1956. We are also happy to include any factory prototypes or homebrewed specials based on the original models.
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My Sunbeam S8, one of the three existent bikes in Israel, is a twin over head camshaft 500 CC engined, drive shafted, very diferent motorcycle.
Found in a Kibbutz in 1987, dismantled and incomplete, is my most interesting restoration I ever made. The restoration begun in 1986, but after many years of pause, I returned to the job in november 2003.
Not just a recent show winner, Brian Matthew's 'Beam probably also started life on a show stand back at Olympia over 70 years ago...
Isn't this bike a beaut? It was judged to be one of the best at last autumn's Stinkwheel Show at Beaumanor Hall, where it collected the award for Best in Class of its era. Owner Brian Matthews is rightly proud; this is a well cared-for example of the best of British craftsmanship, conceived and executed before the industry collapsed into the Great Depression.
Founded in 1924, the Sunbeam Motor Cycle Club remains one of the oldest clubs in the ... who made the Sunbeam motorcycles in their factory at Wolverhampton. ...
The John Marston Sunbeam register for sunbeam motorcycles built ain Wolverhampton between 1911 and 1939. The clubs annual rally at the aircraft museum , in t...
In the ’50s – indeed from the end of WWII until, well, I’d say the mid to late ’80s – the motorcycle was primarily the preserve of the working man. There were exceptions, of course there were – ...
The Sunbeam S7 was designated as the “Machine of the Future” following World War ll. Built in BSA’s Small Heath Works in Birmingham from 1948 to 1956, the S7 was designed by Erling Poppe as an exercise in adopting automobile theory to motorcycle design. The Sunbeam S7 was a unique departure from post-war motorcycle architecture with its inline, twin cylinder, overhead cam, dry clutch, shaft-drive and rubber mounted engine. The engine is a 487cc in-line, air-cooled twin, with all-alloy construction, right-side shift and coil/distributor ignition. Power is transferred through a car-type final drive shaft and through a right angle to the back wheel. The heart of the bike’s charm is its engine.
Frank Westworth revisits a bike he rode several years ago. Years before A Nice Gurl gave him a Sunbeam...
Oh bliss. Oh joy. Oh sweet smiles of happiness! What a pleasant motorcycle this is. Can I ride it for a while or two? I can. Splendid…
RealClassic.co.uk
'Kevin's found you a Sunbeam,' the good lady said as she waggled the telephone handset at me, 'but do you really need another motorbike?' Her final words fell on deaf ears. A Sunbeam? For eighteen months I had been looking for a Sunbeam S7 to rebuild, dismissing many shiny but suspect examples that started at £2000.
- Classic Bike Review - RealClassic.co.uk
