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I am sure most of them don’t have a clue what they are talking about. All over the internet and in forums people are talking trash about Bultaco motorcycles. These same super funky editors that worship CZ, Maico, and Japanese motorcycles. No one! These are some of the lies and false information told by famous motorcycle magazine editors. No other brand had this kind of success in the 1970s! Not Honda. International Six Day Enduro ISDT – Multiple Gold Metal Winners. Grand Prix Road Racing – Multiple World Champions. Dominated The Sport!įlat-track and Short-track – Multiple World Champions. Observed Trials – Multiple World Champions. Bultaco had all of these back in the day. Reliability, Power, Light Weight, Handling, and Low Cost of Ownership. Clear Up Some Disinformation and Lies: First some truths: Bultaco was the best dirt bike ever made.

I even tried observed trials, but those trials guys are crazy! Trials is a dangerous sport! I never did travel to race nationals, as I was too busy with the store and school. I also competed in some flat-track, scrambles, and enduro events. 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. Glad he could fit me in.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. He also has some very cool custom bikes in process as well as restorations and is very busy these days. All this to say that he was very generous with his time and knowledge. He was putting several bikes together and offered me several build tips, specifically on a transmission he was installing - which will save me from some mistakes I was probably going to make. He also took a look at the place in my head where the head bolt hole breaks through the inside of the head (and is plugged by a steel insert) and says he sees this on a lot of heads and is not a problem the way it is. Rob went over his head rebuilding process. Looks like I’m in the market for new cams and tappets now as the pitting was too deep to consider then serviceable. He was gracious to take a look at some of my problematic parts, especially my pitted cams and tappets. I then drove my head down the road a bit to Rob at Virginia Vintage Cycle ( Virginia Vintage Cycle). I was considering not having this done since I had cleaned the cases quite nicely, but I’m really pleased with the results! Sean did a great job and he has some very cool builds in progress now. He vapor honed my engine cases, head and rocker boxes. I picked up my engine cases from Sean at Motorelic ( MotoRelic – Motorelic | Custom Motorcycles & Fabrication) here in Northern Virginia.