Bultaco Parts Australia Complete re-build and renovation services. Inchley rode a Bultaco-based 6-speed, 250 Villiers Starmaker-powered special to 3rd place in the 1966 Lightweight TT. Bultaco Pursang Shocks Mk9 Brand New Betor Shocks Pursang 162 167 168 440mm New. Pictured here are some of our favorite Bultaco race bikes from that wonderful era. 00 Add to basket Bultaco 250cc Gudgeon Pin £ 17. The Metisse was an instant success on the track and, with the growing popularity of motocross, soon morphed into the classic Pursang.
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The Sherpa S was followed by the Bultaco Metisse, a full 250cc engine ensconced in a frame built in Spain under license from England’s Rickman brothers. Immediate success on flat tracks, TT and scrambles tracks firmly established Bultaco as the bike you needed if you wanted to win. The first Bultaco imported to dazzle Americans with its two-stroke power, light weight and great handling was the Model 3 Sherpa S 200, arriving (around here, anyway) in 1963-64. The frame combines aluminium tub and casted and is projected thinking on make the centre of gravity and the seat lower, making the Pursang lower than the actual motocross bikes.
and a huge market for smaller displacement dirt bikes was created. The PURSANG 450 is a genuine modern motocross bike with a retro-futurist style and some references to the twin shock bikes from the sixties and seventies.
Off-road motorcycles were rapidly becoming all the rage in the U.S. By the early 1960’s, Honda’s sales success in now motorcycle-hungry America prompted Bultaco to look westward to this new and seemingly without limits market. It was an immediate success and, following modified Trallas taking seven of the first ten places in the Spanish Grand Prix, Bultaco’s racing heritage began. Before he died Paco Bultó requested that he be laid to rest in a Bultaco shirt with his moustache properly waxed. The first Bultaco, the 125cc Model 101 Tralla, was released in 1959 as a zippy little street bike for domestic sales. The Bultaco Pursang was one of the most successful two-stroke motocross bikes of its era, taking on some of the biggest motorcycle marques and regularly trouncing them while hardly breaking a sweat. The name was derived from the founder’s name, Paco Bultó, and Bultaco was born.
Bultó was opposed to the idea and resigned Shortly thereafter, along with several other former Montesa racing department individuals, formed his own company. In 1958, in the midst of an economic slowdown, Montesa wanted to get out of racing to save money. In post-WWII Spain, Francesc "Paco" Bultó was a Director with motorcycle manufacturer Montesa and particularly active in that company’s racing efforts.
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