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About us.

ABSAF is a small company, led by Jan de Jong.

He started making BSA Gold Star parts to keep his own racer going, back in 1981, and made more and more parts for friends and other racers, it became a full-time occupation. At that time he had a motorcycle shop, and he was the first Triumph (Hinckley) dealer in the Netherlands. ABSAF pushed aside the bike repairs and became much more than a hobby. He has a different hobby now, he collects small ships' engines which used to be made here in Appingedam by the Brons factory, and when he has the time he restores them.

Jan is a northerner, he doesn't like showy presentation or unnecessary expenditure. This means that ABSAF parts will come in plain unmarked envelopes and boxes, no logo tape, no printed labels. ABSAF does little advertising and have done so only rarely in the past. No Christmas cards, no free glossy brochures, not even glossy brochures that you can pay for. No headed notepaper from real printers and no professional cards, everything is straight from our own little HP printer.







Tom de Jong standing proudly behind a standard goldstar.

The factory

We work with about ten different lathes and mills, including three CNC machines which can be programmed to machine parts. It is far more accurate than anything that can be done by hand, and guarantees that parts are made to the highest possible standards, which is why our parts always fit.




The Baby Fehlmann CNC mill on the left picture and its' big brother on the right, which can rotate the parts while machining and change tools all by itself.





Five engines being assembled in the workshop.