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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest7 on March 02, 2010, 01:03:40 AM
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I've been getting into 70s and late 60s paint schemes lately and I got to thinkng about what are my favourites. this is one:
(http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/261054/images/bultaco.jpg)
I reckon the Bultaco logo of that period is just bloody lovely.
What's more worrying is that I have also started appreciating metalflake and gaudy colours. It's those bloody Japanese bobbers what have done this ;) :o
This sort of tank detail is nice too:
(http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Yamaha%20Bikes/images/Yamaha-DT250-75.jpg)
Perhaps the 70s weren't as style-free as we like to think. ;)
GC
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Perhaps the 70s weren't as style-free as we like to think. ;)
GC
Only when it comes to your clothing, from the early photos I've seen.
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Plenty of 70s paintjobs at Bristol classic bike show lots of british iron sporting metalflake (nice blues & reds) and candy as well ........
pretty!
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That top one looks like an upside down Starsky and Hutch bike- very 70's!! :)
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If anyone wants some metal flake I've several small pots going spare in my garage. All very gaudy!
Boyd
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That top one looks like an upside down Starsky and Hutch bike- very 70's!! :)
They also came in blue http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.auctionpix.co.uk/members/nsl781189.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BULTACO-OSSA-MERLIN-UNIVERSAL-TRIALS-FENDERS-MUDGUARDS/380163962080&usg=__xyi2I9pnT4P3Gm9vL22J8oALIWI=&h=272&w=429&sz=75&hl=en&start=99&itbs=1&tbnid=Z3iikKVF6aeICM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblue%2Bbultaco%2Bsherpa%26start%3D90%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1 (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.auctionpix.co.uk/members/nsl781189.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BULTACO-OSSA-MERLIN-UNIVERSAL-TRIALS-FENDERS-MUDGUARDS/380163962080&usg=__xyi2I9pnT4P3Gm9vL22J8oALIWI=&h=272&w=429&sz=75&hl=en&start=99&itbs=1&tbnid=Z3iikKVF6aeICM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblue%2Bbultaco%2Bsherpa%26start%3D90%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1)
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Mine's blue! Nowhere near as nice as either example above or as clean. Yet another project lurking in the back of the garage.
Jez
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I have to say, I have a massive hankering after a Bultaco Sherpa. In fact it's begun to eat me up.
It's all very well lusting after Broughs and the like, but I would know what to do with a Sherpa, I would spend whole weekends trying to nail an obstacle. That's how I'm built, very much a trials psyche rather than an enduro psyche.
I don't want a modern trials iron because you can't really ride them anywhere and they are more capable than my limited off-road talent. A Sherpa would be my dream bike.
GC
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Aye GC,
The 250 is fine, the 325 is a different beast. Still reasonable prices. Not sure about spares etc. Mr Miller used to be good for bits and mods. My early 250 5 speed was really good and I can't ride a fig, good transport in the wilds.
Have seen Matadors being used for VMCC regularity runs these days!
Flog the XBR's and go and have a play! ;D
Regards, Bill.
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at the risk of upsetting someone the gear lever is on the wrong side ;D
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OSSA rules! OK!!!!!!
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Had one of those too!! A 250 Super Pioneer, a peaky enduro tool with knobblies, a bit dodgy on bends in the wet, but went like the proverbial scalded cat as and when the dreadful Motoplat ignition system decided to work.
Jez
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this is another favourite, a Bultaco Montjuic 24 hours race bike.
(http://www.motocra.com/bultaco/velocidad/images/MONTJUIC.jpg)
It's got lovely lines, imho.
GC
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If anyone wants some metal flake I've several small pots going spare in my garage. All very gaudy!
Boyd
Boyd, what you got?
Looking to paint a couple of 'piss pots'. It's the 'in' look now amongst all us bobber ridders. ;D
Mark.
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If anyone wants some metal flake I've several small pots going spare in my garage. All very gaudy!
Boyd
Boyd, what you got?
Looking to paint a couple of 'piss pots'. It's the 'in' look now amongst all us bobber ridders. ;D
Mark.
Can I bagsy a sloppy seconds on that please? Any pinks, oranges, reds or browns would be good...
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this is another favourite, a Bultaco Montjuic 24 hours race bike.
(http://www.motocra.com/bultaco/velocidad/images/MONTJUIC.jpg)
It's got lovely lines, imho.
GC
Boot on your foot this time GC! ???
I have to say that's "Una tentación muy bonita, delgada,!" :-*
Have you read Mick Walkers book about the Spanish factories during this era?
Gringo!
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I haven't read that book of his, but on the weekend I was perusing his "Cafe Racers of the 1960s".
I first saw a picture of the Bultaco racer in Cathcart's book "track secrets of championship road racers". It was in teh section on Dave Degens where he talked about riding at Montjuic. There was a picture of a 360 Bultaco being worked on and it made a lasting impression, it just looked 'right'.
Anohter lovely bike from that era was the Tompkinson and Mead B50 endurance bike, but getting hold of good pictures of that bike is hard... it's the forgotten British race bike. Here's one picture:
(http://www.b50.org/rollason.jpg)
Talking of 24 hours and Dave Degens, I read something the other day about a Welsh rider in the Montjuic 24hours (in the same year that the Dresda won it) who had to do a 12 hour stint after his team-mate was injured... 12 hours :o :o :o
GC
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I had the Pioneer 250 before this one... love the colour scheme on the newer one tho.
(http://ulysses-wa.info/uploads/ossa.jpg)
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MMMM OSSA... look hard its well camouflaged
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Oi, Kurt!
"Those were the days my friend!" Mary Hopkins.
Having now taken a cold shower, re-adjusted the eyeballs and tried to settle ..........
Testosterone is really rather good stuff! ;D Now where was I afore getting all flustered, hot and bothered? Ah, yes, this is the reference for Mick Walkers book, that I referred to in an earlier part of this thread GC:
Spanish Postwar Motor Cycles (Osprey Collector's Library) (Hardcover)
by Mick Walker (Author) ISBN 0-85045-705-X
Please don't ask why this book now has a crazy price on it's head, I don't know, and Waterstones were flogging them off at £4-99 when I bought mine a 'few years ago'!
Toodle pip, Bill.
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Another taster! But completely 'off thread'! ;)
Bultaco (http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/200903/bultaco-picador-400_460x0w.jpg)
Cheery bye, Bill.
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Interesting, but is it real? looks a tad 'photoshopped' to me
(http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/200903/bultaco-picador-400_460x0w.jpg)
GC