Motorcycles saved my life. I was in the grips of a violent alcohol addiction and was white knuckling quitting booze. A few years ago, I completely immersed myself in dirt bikes. I have met so many good people riding who have the same mentality as I do and completely changed my life. Got my CR250 in Sept 2020 and found your guys' channel shortly after! Appreciate you guys a lot.
Not sure if medical research has been done, but to me there's no doubt anecdotally that riding keeps one physically, mentally, relationally and spiritually fit. Ride on Uncle Bill!
@@robertodebeers2551 thanks for mentioning the late Red Drennon. I knew nothing about him but just read a little bit about him online. Guess he was a heck of a nice guy who owned a cycle shop in Helena and was an avid pilot among other adventures. Pretty cool!
I met Red when I bought my first real motorcycle, a Honda 305 Scrambler, from him when I was a senior in high school. I used to hang around his shop, uncrate bikes, etc. He was a hero of mine. @@bluoval3481
She'd plunk up some big hills with a "I'm hardly working hard at all" rasp eminating from that beautiful exhaust it has. Bultacos really are the creme de la creme of vintage trials.
Great points. I just got back from a memorial motocross race that was for a great guy named Paul Nielson. Paul retired from racing vintage motocross at age 87. His favorite slogan was WFO!
I had an early 70's Matador. Pretty cool. Bultacos were pretty unique machines. The Pursangs were wicked torque bikes. They are all getting rare. Nice find Captain...
I love the expertise with which you present these bikes. I'm sure the Ossa man could tell you a thing or two about Santiagoo Herrero's rotary valve monocoque Grand Prix bike. Back then the Japanese didn't know how to build two-strokes. The Spaniards and especially the people from MZ showed the way. I own two Ossa Wildfire, one in parts, one rebuilt as a racer in the sixties. MZ anyway... Great channel! Keep it up!
I picked up a 70s Bultaco when I was a kid in the 80s. It was always fun to set my motocross buddies loose on it with the reversed shifter and back break. :D
Nothing like the 70s 80s bikes !! My dad had 2 bultaco sherpa and he used to take me on the gas tank going uphill back in the Galicia área , great memories with that bultaco !!
I own a few Bultacos so I am a little bias, but this may be one of your better videos!! Great Job. I owned my first Bultaco as a teenager. Hope to see you again at the Vintage Festival at Barbers this year. I live 8 miles from the track. I would love to visit your museum some day! I am a retired Army Black Hawk Pilot and I have found my retirement hobby/passion. Every time I restore a bike I start by watching your videos to see what a completed bike should look like. You set the standard.
Great trials bike...the Spanish had it down...still do! Love the speech about riding so true. It is a lifelong thing, the love of bikes...keeps you sharp, focused, fit and immersed in life! Not to mention the eye and ear candy aspect!
Young kids would think a bultaco is something you get from taco bell! Only old timers know about bultaco or Ossa . Luv your channel your collection is amazing !! 👍✌
1972. Cottage on a lake. 10 years old. Yamaha mini enduro. Guy's down the road. Beat up trailer. Tents. All had Penton, Montessa, Bultaco,Maico, Montessa. Made great trails for us. Lake Tahoe. Oceana Michigan. God bless if you see this. Heroes. 👍❤🙏
Sweet bike! You sure get some serious opportunities to see and ride some awesome bikes. What I wouldn’t give to ride half the bikes I’ve seen on your channel. Most of those bikes I haven’t seen in at least thirty years, probably more. Great to seen them up and running though. Thanks for sharing!
Love this video thanx i lived in australia for a few years and restored a 1974 bultaco 250 isdt enduro it was so fun to ride. I must agree with everything you pointed out. Peace love and spanish4eva!!!
The first Bultaco I ever saw was a 100cc Lobito back in the early Fall of 1969. The second Bultaco was a 125cc Lobito. The third was a 250cc Matador. Gorgeous motorcycles. Sure would LOVE to see videos on these aforementioned bikes. 😊
Absolutely gorgeous bike I remember my nephew had I’m sure it was a Yamaha TY 80 i used to take him out on and wow what a blast. It probably only did maybe 40 flat out tops i used to love putting him on the front and that little thing it would climb almost vertical hills maybe 2 stories high effortlessly 2nd Or 3rd gear just lug right up them with a little run absolutely loved that little bike would’ve loved something bigger like that gorgeous bultaco or any older trials bike so much fun but i guess you can’t have everything right. Unless you’re name is Ken Kaplan sr you lucky old dog while people like me have to settle for memories you’re still living the dream jk 😁 that’s why I’m subscribed to your channel your videos always bring back such great memories 👍👌 ML&R and god bless your whole family keep living the dream stay safe buddy.
Just a beautiful bike, I remember at the motocross track in 1975 a few guys ran Pursangs and a older guy had a Bultaco trials bike brings back great memories
Great! this is the best video upload of all the ones Ive watched today! Im 62 id love to get another trials bike especially one of these classics. I got blown up in Afghanistan but I still ride most everyday this would be so fun on my property!
That is one awesome machine wow, story and Billy is quite the inspiration! I had a 1974 250 and loved it, very distinctive sound too. I just watched a wonderful documentary on the history of Bultaco, really a fantastic story. Its on YT.
As an English teen in the 70's I had a 73 Sherpa 250, it was another world compared to the old Greeves I learned on. Just like that I was able to compete in local club events. I was not so good at it, but knew the bike could do it all, so it was down to me. Spectating in 76 at the British round of the World Championship, I watched the Bultaco works riders Martin Lampkin & Yrjo Vesterinen on what looked very much like the same bike the experts in my club were riding. There are not many motorsports where a clubman can buy a "factory" grade machine & win out of the showroom.
Bultaco and Ossa were wonderful bikes back in the day. MX, Competition Enduro, Trials, and Street bikes in Bultaco's case, the Metralla. You are so right about riding bikes being a lifetime sport. Great fun, stress relief, teaches self discipline, and meeting great people. 😊
My father passed away years ago and he use to brag about his bultaco and how he out ran po pos every time they turned on the blues lol he said tht bike would fly for the period I always wanted to see one thanks for bringing up some good memories I had with my wonderful father I grew up riding bikes from honda50 to Honda cr250r to Yamaha yzf450 Honda 400ex all great times I had with my father I haven't road anything since his passing maybe one-day I'll get around to riding again
I bought a 1971 Sammy miller Surpa T , a few years ago for $ 500 that needed an ignition stater My friend's talked crap, I Got it fixed that bike it Was the best bike I've ever had Most fun ever, I'm 62 now and tons of Bikes that bikes and that Was the best . The key in The primary gear striped So I had the clutch off And I still have it, but That's all I've got left of It , the clutch and the side Cover, someone stole it And I'm still looking for That Bultaco Shepa T With no clutch God willing I'll find it this video was Hard to watch but , Kaplan America Strikes Again. Thanks from NOR-CAL.
Sweet bike,I wish I never sold my Persang . 👍 mine was cherry also. Still had the rubber tittys from the tire mold on the tires. Oh well nice to see some one ride a nice 350 at .02 miles an hour.
Had 1 late 70’s my uncle had it and left it at our house I was riding it when I was 12 coolest kid in the neighborhood and we lived right next to vast off-road trials
when i was a kid i had ossa-montesa and bultaco and huskies and maicos,my grandpa had a dealership in southgate california and near the weatherby gunstore in rock throwing distance and in 1973 we moved to oregon where he ritired and in my youth i had almost everything i wanted.my grandpa would tell me -if you can get it to run you can ride it.
Hughes Bultaco in Craryville NY owns the badging and the brand. I have a 350 T that’s one year older (a M151) and I owned a M159 like that one in the past and rode an M92 (‘72 350 T) for years
This bike was my favorite trials bike at the time my friend had one ☝️ I was fortunate enough to have gotten a 250 OSSA Mick Andrews replica brand new 1974
What a gem! Billy looks like Harvey Kietel's brother. RZ Cup, too? Okay then, he looks like the better looking brother. lol Trials riders tend to do well in other bike racing.
When I was a kid a long long long time ago I used to take my brothers bull taco 🌮 and smoke all the other dirt bikes in the neighborhood..That's a beautiful bike bruh.....
I just got one that was my grandfather’s that’s almost identical to this one. It needs some work but I’m planning on restoring it. Where is a good place to get parts for one?
Very nice, but the foot is not positioned right on the pegs! You stood stand on your foot palm on the foot rest that gives you additional travel of moving the body up and down and very importand if you lean towards the front your foot will not stuck out beneth the foot rest and will be very vunerable towards coming rocks in stone sections. To the bike that is a very nice example of well cared Bultaco Sherpa and as the rails beneath the engineantthe inbetween welded bash plate are still in very good state, not scratches or warped it has not been used much as a trials bike either. I like the frame layout of that model too becaus it was the narrowest frame Bultace had build so it cornes better the later models except for the 199b wehre they changed th layout towards better handling. Anyway it should be ridden i trails, I personal had an extra bash plate an my Sherpa made out of aluminium with a cushing/layer of mooserubber inbetween which helped taht the lower rails and bash survived very well, you can too use a PA6 plastic then it even glides over the stones.
Great stuff, I haven't seen anything on the kawasaki ninja, I have an old 600 d series that's an ongoing project.. naked cafe come street fighter wish I could send some pic's for you , if possible let me know how and where to send.
Never be impressed by a Bulltaco rider riding a wheelie. Be impressed by a Bulltaco rider who can go full throttle AND keep.the front wheel on the front wheel on the GROUND.
I pensar que antes hacíamos esas motazas en España, guapísimas tanto Montesas, Bultaco, Ossa, Derbi
Motorcycles saved my life. I was in the grips of a violent alcohol addiction and was white knuckling quitting booze. A few years ago, I completely immersed myself in dirt bikes. I have met so many good people riding who have the same mentality as I do and completely changed my life. Got my CR250 in Sept 2020 and found your guys' channel shortly after! Appreciate you guys a lot.
Not sure if medical research has been done, but to me there's no doubt anecdotally that riding keeps one physically, mentally, relationally and spiritually fit. Ride on Uncle Bill!
"Motorcycles keep you young." Red Drennon, Helena, Montana.
@@robertodebeers2551 thanks for mentioning the late Red Drennon. I knew nothing about him but just read a little bit about him online. Guess he was a heck of a nice guy who owned a cycle shop in Helena and was an avid pilot among other adventures. Pretty cool!
I met Red when I bought my first real motorcycle, a Honda 305 Scrambler, from him when I was a senior in high school. I used to hang around his shop, uncrate bikes, etc. He was a hero of mine. @@bluoval3481
You don't always need medical research to know what works in the outdoors.
She'd plunk up some big hills with a "I'm hardly working hard at all" rasp eminating from that beautiful exhaust it has. Bultacos really are the creme de la creme of vintage trials.
Great points. I just got back from a memorial motocross race that was for a great guy named Paul Nielson.
Paul retired from racing vintage motocross at age 87. His favorite slogan was WFO!
I had an early 70's Matador. Pretty cool. Bultacos were pretty unique machines. The Pursangs were wicked torque bikes. They are all getting rare. Nice find Captain...
I love the expertise with which you present these bikes. I'm sure the Ossa man could tell you a thing or two about Santiagoo Herrero's rotary valve monocoque Grand Prix bike. Back then the Japanese didn't know how to build two-strokes. The Spaniards and especially the people from MZ showed the way. I own two Ossa Wildfire, one in parts, one rebuilt as a racer in the sixties. MZ anyway... Great channel! Keep it up!
I picked up a 70s Bultaco when I was a kid in the 80s. It was always fun to set my motocross buddies loose on it with the reversed shifter and back break. :D
Why…? Did you break the brake?
@@macmclemore No because they would inevitably climb a hill and forget everything was backwards and downshift instead of hitting the brakes. :D
Nothing like the 70s 80s bikes !! My dad had 2 bultaco sherpa and he used to take me on the gas tank going uphill back in the Galicia área , great memories with that bultaco !!
Gorgeous Bultaco! Love the colour. I ride a 1980 349 Cota in Classic Trials but would love this one.
I am argentin and i love your country. God bless América.
Love seeing these. I restored a 250 only had 79 miles on it when I got it. So much class. Bultaco raised letters on the bolt heads. So much detail
I own a few Bultacos so I am a little bias, but this may be one of your better videos!! Great Job. I owned my first Bultaco as a teenager. Hope to see you again at the Vintage Festival at Barbers this year. I live 8 miles from the track. I would love to visit your museum some day! I am a retired Army Black Hawk Pilot and I have found my retirement hobby/passion. Every time I restore a bike I start by watching your videos to see what a completed bike should look like. You set the standard.
They were the bikes to have, the main man martin lampkin rode one . What a champion he was.
Your channel is absolutely killing it! These vintage survivor trials bikes are really incredible!
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Great trials bike...the Spanish had it down...still do! Love the speech about riding so true. It is a lifelong thing, the love of bikes...keeps you sharp, focused, fit and immersed in life! Not to mention the eye and ear candy aspect!
Young kids would think a bultaco is something you get from taco bell! Only old timers know about bultaco or Ossa . Luv your channel your collection is amazing !! 👍✌
1972. Cottage on a lake. 10 years old. Yamaha mini enduro. Guy's down the road. Beat up trailer. Tents. All had Penton, Montessa, Bultaco,Maico, Montessa. Made great trails for us. Lake Tahoe. Oceana Michigan. God bless if you see this. Heroes. 👍❤🙏
You guys are truly inspirational. Ya’ll know the deal 👍🏁
Sweet bike! You sure get some serious opportunities to see and ride some awesome bikes. What I wouldn’t give to ride half the bikes I’ve seen on your channel. Most of those bikes I haven’t seen in at least thirty years, probably more. Great to seen them up and running though. Thanks for sharing!
Love this video thanx i lived in australia for a few years and restored a 1974 bultaco 250 isdt enduro it was so fun to ride. I must agree with everything you pointed out. Peace love and spanish4eva!!!
The first Bultaco I ever saw was a 100cc Lobito back in the early Fall of 1969. The second Bultaco was a 125cc Lobito. The third was a 250cc Matador. Gorgeous motorcycles. Sure would LOVE to see videos on these aforementioned bikes. 😊
Absolutely gorgeous bike I remember my nephew had I’m sure it was a Yamaha TY 80 i used to take him out on and wow what a blast. It probably only did maybe 40 flat out tops i used to love putting him on the front and that little thing it would climb almost vertical hills maybe 2 stories high effortlessly 2nd Or 3rd gear just lug right up them with a little run absolutely loved that little bike would’ve loved something bigger like that gorgeous bultaco or any older trials bike so much fun but i guess you can’t have everything right. Unless you’re name is Ken Kaplan sr you lucky old dog while people like me have to settle for memories you’re still living the dream jk 😁 that’s why I’m subscribed to your channel your videos always bring back such great memories 👍👌 ML&R and god bless your whole family keep living the dream stay safe buddy.
Just a beautiful bike, I remember at the motocross track in 1975 a few guys ran Pursangs and a older guy had a Bultaco trials bike brings back great memories
Great! this is the best video upload of all the ones Ive watched today! Im 62 id love to get another trials bike especially one of these classics. I got blown up in Afghanistan but I still ride most everyday this would be so fun on my property!
That is one awesome machine wow, story and Billy is quite the inspiration! I had a 1974 250 and loved it, very distinctive sound too. I just watched a wonderful documentary on the history of Bultaco, really a fantastic story. Its on YT.
As an English teen in the 70's I had a 73 Sherpa 250, it was another world compared to the old Greeves I learned on. Just like that I was able to compete in local club events. I was not so good at it, but knew the bike could do it all, so it was down to me. Spectating in 76 at the British round of the World Championship, I watched the Bultaco works riders Martin Lampkin & Yrjo Vesterinen on what looked very much like the same bike the experts in my club were riding. There are not many motorsports where a clubman can buy a "factory" grade machine & win out of the showroom.
Worked at a Bultaco dealership, race the Pursangs ,had a 200 and 360.Great suspension and motors.
Bultaco and Ossa were wonderful bikes back in the day. MX, Competition Enduro, Trials, and Street bikes in Bultaco's case, the Metralla.
You are so right about riding bikes being a lifetime sport. Great fun, stress relief, teaches self discipline, and meeting great people. 😊
I had a '73 Alpina 250. Loved that bike. I sold it because parts were hard to come by.
My father passed away years ago and he use to brag about his bultaco and how he out ran po pos every time they turned on the blues lol he said tht bike would fly for the period I always wanted to see one thanks for bringing up some good memories I had with my wonderful father I grew up riding bikes from honda50 to Honda cr250r to Yamaha yzf450 Honda 400ex all great times I had with my father I haven't road anything since his passing maybe one-day I'll get around to riding again
I once owned a Bultaco Alpina 250cc...A most beautiful bike...Makes off roading enjoyable. My edition used
pre-mixed fuel...
watch Toni Bau trials today's world champ.. Super human skills
Yea Toni is completely insane with it. Almost otherworldly.
Bou
@@garyalexander2480 Boo 👻
I flat-tracked a 250 ASTRO, it was an awesome ride. I loved that bike.
Yeah, we designed great bikes back then. Greetings from Spain!
I bought a 1971 Sammy miller Surpa T , a few years ago for $ 500 that needed an ignition stater
My friend's talked crap, I
Got it fixed that bike it
Was the best bike I've
ever had Most fun ever,
I'm 62 now and tons of
Bikes that bikes and that
Was the best . The key in
The primary gear striped
So I had the clutch off
And I still have it, but
That's all I've got left of
It , the clutch and the side
Cover, someone stole it
And I'm still looking for
That Bultaco Shepa T
With no clutch God willing
I'll find it this video was
Hard to watch but , Kaplan
America Strikes Again.
Thanks from NOR-CAL.
Sweet bike,I wish I never sold my Persang . 👍 mine was cherry also. Still had the rubber tittys from the tire mold on the tires. Oh well nice to see some one ride a nice 350 at .02 miles an hour.
You want another one? 1971 M87.
Did anyone else watch the trials competitions at 360 in Arlington Tx in the early 70s? l was there the day Malcolm Smith showed up.
The sherpa T 350 mod 159, the Manuel Soler version . I have one of this and using in the Spanish classics championship. Great Bultaco.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Wow!
Gorgeous Bultaco. Had an Ossa Stilletto back in the day.
Had 1 late 70’s my uncle had it and left it at our house I was riding it when I was 12 coolest kid in the neighborhood and we lived right next to vast off-road trials
when i was a kid i had ossa-montesa and bultaco and huskies and maicos,my grandpa had a dealership in southgate california and near the weatherby gunstore in rock throwing distance and in 1973 we moved to oregon where he ritired and in my youth i had almost everything i wanted.my grandpa would tell me -if you can get it to run you can ride it.
Hughes Bultaco in Craryville NY owns the badging and the brand. I have a 350 T that’s one year older (a M151) and I owned a M159 like that one in the past and rode an M92 (‘72 350 T) for years
Beautiful bultaco. I know one of these days I'm gunna get a notification of you picking up an Astro.
Im 65, i still ride dirt street and road race,
I will stop when im dead. Lol
Enjoy
This bike was my favorite trials bike at the time my friend had one ☝️ I was fortunate enough to have gotten a 250 OSSA Mick Andrews replica brand new 1974
anyone that is not impressed with low speed maneuvers on two wheels has not spent enough time on two wheels.
I had an Alpina Bultaco exellent trail bike; two stroke but capable of near trials ability then enduro; I loved that bike
The best motorbikes in trial,bultaco and montesa,in Spain it’s a culture!!!thank from Spain
Powerdyne Gringo had a stint in Lincoln Ri. Looks somewhat similar but what a beauty. 😉
Awesome Bultaco!
The work Horse of off road bikes!
That’s what i always wanted when i was a kid back then when it came out!
What a gem! Billy looks like Harvey Kietel's brother. RZ Cup, too? Okay then, he looks like the better looking brother. lol Trials riders tend to do well in other bike racing.
Just finished restoring one of these with my Dad! On to the Pursang next.
I had the same one, but blue.
The first three gears are allmost the same, its like a tractor but long fifth gear, heavy motor
I loved my Bultaco!
I owned a 74, rhe thing that come to mind first was the bikes ability to be under water to the tank for 5 seconds "AND STAY RUNNING"
When I was a kid a long long long time ago I used to take my brothers bull taco 🌮 and smoke all the other dirt bikes in the neighborhood..That's a beautiful bike bruh.....
Billy Blythe is a rock star.👍
I am still sooo bummed I missed out on buying this Bultaco. I’m crying now.
Did the old Bultacos have the DelOrto Carb, or was that just the Italian bikes?
I just got one that was my grandfather’s that’s almost identical to this one. It needs some work but I’m planning on restoring it. Where is a good place to get parts for one?
He looks like he hasn’t missed a beat 🤘
Those bikes will start backwards mate of Mine had one new but a 250 cheers Mick.
I had a gas gas jtx 250 , fun bikes trail bikes
You always have to Best bike's awesome bro.
Beautiful bulltaco fellas 👍
I’d like to see Kaplan try his hand at trials, pretty sure he would excel.
I've had dreams in which I'm riding a motorcycle, and I'm shifting with my right foot!
(First bike was a BSA)
My Dad had one to compete in N.E.O.T.T. events. I had an MAR OSSA.
Sounds just like my 79 model 213.
i had that same bike messed up as a kid an didn't know about the "other" oil filler nuff said
🇪🇦🇪🇦💪💪💪 Bultaco
You’re pretty good at a complete stop and hold
❤ amazing
hope thr front brake works better than mine...... they are good fun....
that's a real beauty😀
Damb that is a monster.
Man i wish i lived back then
Nice bike ,,
Very nice, but the foot is not positioned right on the pegs!
You stood stand on your foot palm on the foot rest that gives you additional travel of moving the body up and down and very importand if you lean towards the front your foot will not stuck out beneth the foot rest and will be very vunerable towards coming rocks in stone sections.
To the bike that is a very nice example of well cared Bultaco Sherpa and as the rails beneath the engineantthe inbetween welded bash plate are still in very good state, not scratches or warped it has not been used much as a trials bike either.
I like the frame layout of that model too becaus it was the narrowest frame Bultace had build so it cornes better the later models except for the 199b wehre they changed th layout towards better handling.
Anyway it should be ridden i trails, I personal had an extra bash plate an my Sherpa made out of aluminium with a cushing/layer of mooserubber inbetween which helped taht the lower rails and bash survived very well, you can too use a PA6 plastic then it even glides over the stones.
Paco Bulto!!!!
😍😍😍
any chance you can find me this bike today?? love to buy it
New sub ! Liked 🙏🐸🔥🔥🙃
Great stuff, I haven't seen anything on the kawasaki ninja, I have an old 600 d series that's an ongoing project.. naked cafe come street fighter wish I could send some pic's for you , if possible let me know how and where to send.
Never be impressed by a Bulltaco rider riding a wheelie. Be impressed by a Bulltaco rider who can go full throttle AND keep.the front wheel on the front wheel on the GROUND.
So basically. Shercos are the closest thing we’ll ever get to a modern day Bultaco, huh?
Makes me feel shameful that I havnt polished my Buls in years.
Ever get a pursang 360 74"
Thats what I started on
I know of two blue Bultaco like this bike that sit infront of Sanilacs auto body outs side of Monticello ny .
Sadilacks auto body
I have a Yamaha TY250 in great shape...Willing to selling Nor Calif Redding area
Mate of mine got his father's when he past away it's like new
Spain bike!!
Get better audio on your videos especially when someone else is speaking. Your voice is good
It's OSS not OW in OSSA " well I think it is ' 😁
1st
i have one ride it every day
It sounds like it loves to idle.
Bitchin! What's not to like.