3 Years Of searching for Bultaco Parts and this is what happens

[dirttracker30]

Well If I can get this to work I will show off the final product of the restoration project that my brother and i took on.We started this project over 3 years ago and finally got it together in July of 09. This bike laid in the back shed for 30 years after my older brother, who owed it ,was killedin 1978. the last time the thing ran under it's own power was around 1976 (33 or 34 years) until last july when we fired it up and ran it up the street.

and my next project: 1972 Rickman Montesa 250 Cross

 

[Sticky Throttle]

Shazamm! Beautiful work.

 

[big_smile_2u]

Very nice!

 

[CAJW]

As one who has trudged through motorcycle boneyards, struggled with rusted nuts and fought valiantly on Ebay for the last needed part to finish a restoration, I feel you pain and pride. Nice work!

 

[Niehart]

Well done!

 

[dcarver]

Got to love any bike with Akront rims!

 

[FJRBluesman]

Those are classic/vintage beauties.

I had an older (I think) 1971 Bultaco Sherpa S 175. Never did get used to the shifter on the right and kick start on the left and kicking forward.

 

[Auburn]

Very nice job! :clapping:

 

[fljab]

Was the exhaust in good shape, or did you have to find that? I'd imagine that would be a scarce item.

Nice work!

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

Awesome looking bike. That's a nice tribute and connection to your brother. I love all the chrome and steel fenders.

I heard "in the day" that fenders used to crack and break from vibration and stress.

What parts of the project were the most difficult?

 

[dirttracker30]

The chrome on this one has been rechromed, The pipe was in fair shape ,and i had that. the tail light bracket and the( "made in spain" NOS) Pirelis were the hardest to find. the taillight was found when I sold off some spare parts ,and the guy who bought some spare fork tubes had a tailght in a box on a shelf in his shop.

 

[fjrchooser]

Beautiful ! What's the plan for the bike now ?

 

[TheAxeman]

WOW! Very nice job! Congratulations on the rebuild......I'll give you $500 bucks for it.

 

[johnny80s]

Awesome!

 

[Grumpy]

Great job. Brings back all kinds of memories. I had an earlier model with the close ratio gearbox and I did enduros and needed the wide ratio box.........bought the gears and used the wife's oven to heat the cases.......forgot to tell her that the house would smell like 90 weight gear lube for about a week..........she was a good sport though and made me take her out to eat! How'd you like the paper gaskets you had to soak in water before they'd lay flat enough to be usable? Mine was a great enduro machine and would have been better if the frame hadn't been made out of old Spanish plumbing pipe!

 

[dirttracker30]

Beautiful ! What's the plan for the bike now ?

To drink beer and look at it. We will fire it up a couple of times this summer,and ride it around the block.I can't believe we used to beat this bike through the timber in the early 70's.And I get on my 2008klx450R that can scare the piss out of you,and still think that it took a lot more balls to race the bultaco and other vintage stuff in the day.eventually we may end up putting it in the national motorcycle museum in Anamosa Iowa, for a year or so.

 

[SECA_to_FJR]

Beautiful job man... I'm sure your brother is smiling from above. Reminds a little of one of my first bikes which was a Premier 125. It was also an enduro. I think it was an Italian bike maybe around circa 72-73 ish....

 

[fjrchooser]

I was wondering if you were going to ride it again. We had a stroked 1984 Honda 200X the family used to flat track in the alcohol class back in the day that I restored in 1997. I gave it to our youngest son last year who lives about a hundred yards from us now.

Mostly we do the same thing you plan to do with the Bull though it still gets wrung out up in the UP a couple of weekends each year.

 

[dirttracker30]

I did a edit on the first post because I did not realize I just had the one side of the bike uploaded twice.