Over the next 10 years I raced at least 14 different bultaco motorcycles. Crazy Mitch could really tune my 125 Bultaco! Three years later, I was racing the 125, 250, and open expert classes. This 100cc bike was faster than a kitted Yamaha 250! This bike should have been illegal to own as it was a death machine! The next year, I raced a Bultaco 125 Sherpa-S and started winning races. I started racing Moto-cross when I was 13 on a very powerful, but poor handling Bridgestone 100 Racer. We knew if we sold 6 bikes a week, we would make $750 and could pay all the bills. My father would order like 20 motorcycles at a time to get a better deal. It was not like today, where you ordered just enough bikes to fill holes in the inventory. My father took care of the store up front. I worked on thousands of bikes in our shop, including many Bultacos. Poor Mitch was working 12 hours a day! Crazy Mitch was getting huge paychecks, but would blow it on women, weed, and bail bonds. There was good money in outdoor power equipment! The repair volume in our back shop more than doubled, so I started helping when I was only 12 years old. We also added some lines of lawnmowers and chainsaws. There was not much profit in selling motorcycles as you would be lucky to make $125 on a sale. They done everything to make sure we had bikes to sell, even years after Bridgestone stopped production. The Bridgestone importer, Rockford Motors was amazing. We also tried to get Kawasaki, but they wanted a big chunk of money up front. Mitch talked my father into taking on the Bultaco line. Crazy Mitch that worked in the back raced flat-track on a Bultaco.
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Plus the Rockford Motors lines: Bridgestone, Chibi, Tora, Taka, MCB (Monark) and Zundapp. Over the years we sold Bultaco, AJS-Matchless, DKW-Sachs, Hodaka, Powell, Bonanza, Rupp, Steen, Cagiva, and Rickman (kits). Enjoy!īackground and History: I pretty much grew up in a motorcycle dealership in California.
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If any additional credit is needed please feel free to send us an email. It is very informative and a great read, and I wanted to do my part in archiving this information for Bultaco enthusiasts to use for years to come. There are no documents with this Lot.The following excerpt is from a Facebook group titled “ BulTaco Astro Racers, Builders, Enthusiast.” It goes into great detail from the perspective of an enthusiast who grew up with Bultaco motorcycles. The Mk 8 Pursang offered here appears to have been restored to substantially original condition.
Early examples sold in the UK came with Rickman-built frames and four-speed gearboxes, but from 1967 the Pursangs were entirely Spanish-built and had a five-speed transmission. Trials and moto-cross models followed in the mid-1960s, the first Pursang scrambler appearing at the start of the 1965 season. Given the circumstances of Bultaco's birth, it should have surprised no one that the company began racing soon afterwards, successfully entering a team in the roadster class at the 1959 Spanish Grand Prix. By the spring of 1959 the fledgling concern's first machine - the Tralla 101, a 125cc two-stroke - was ready for production. The Montesa board wanted to withdraw from racing Bulto disagreed and left in 1958, taking most of the racing department with him to set up a new company – Bultaco. One of motorcycling's many legends, the foundation of Bultaco was occasioned by the resignation of Francisco Xavier Bulto from Montesa, a company he had co-founded with Pedro Permanyer in 1945. However, one will have a machine capable of winning the toughest of motocross events in standard trim.' – On Two Wheels. 'In all, the 250 Pursang Bultaco is remarkably well built but expensive. more c.1975 Bultaco 250cc Pursang Mk 8 Moto-Crosser HM-16800870 'In all, the 250 Pursang Bultaco is remarkably well built but expensive.
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C.1975 Bultaco 250cc Pursang Mk 8 Moto-Crosser Registration no.
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