14th Annual East Central Iowa Sidecar Rally – Sept.13th Annual East Central Iowa Sidecar Rally.If there was any doubt about this bike being professional race ready, my good buddy had just lunched the gearbox on his new Montessa, and asked if he could take my Pursang to a race: he proceeded to win the first and second 250 motos, and the turn around after after each 250 race to come in 4th in the 400 class as well, Holy cow! So it certainly wasn’t the Bike when I came in 8th or 10th! Sadly, my bike was stolen out of my garage,when I moved to Indiana about a year or two later, so not sure whatever became of it. However, more skilled racers would pass me to put me in 8th or 10th place, where is about where I finished. Being a mid level motocrosser, I raced it a local track in lower Michigan, and out of 40 bikes at the starting line, this powerful bike would get me to the first corner in 2nd or 3rd place. I bought one of these Brand new from a Bultaco dealer in the upper peninsula in Michigan in June 1976, still in the crate! The dealer literally met me at the Mackinaw bridge to deliver it to me: $1,400 back then for a bike that was truly race ready out of the crate. Swingarm/Shocks: 5-Way Adjustable, 5 Inch Travel.Induction: Square Body Amal / Reed Valve.A good number of these bikes, including this Bultaco, were donated by Tina and Kevin McGill and include CZs, Maicos, KTMs, Montesas, Hondas and Huskys. When you visit the National Motorcycle Museum you can take in a good selection of motocross, trials and enduro motorcycles. Though the Bultaco brand is still out there, actual factory production for Bultaco and Montesa ceased around 1983. Most Pursangs were 250cc machines but 125, 250, 360 and 370cc displacements were available over the span of the model’s production, plus a works 400. By the mid-1970’s the traditional “unbreakable plastic” fenders became factory stock.įrom the beginning, piston-port timed engines, by 1979 the Pursang Mk XII had adopted reed valves like most of its competition. This proved to be very fragile stuff so was often replaced by Preston Petty’s aftermarket parts. Noted for their unique style among collectors, Model 48 and Model 68 Pursangs, aka “Box-Tails,” also on display here at the Museum, made use of fiberglass for major body components. Jim Pomeroy, champion motocrosser, made the name Pursang famous with his wins in AMA Pro Motocross, but also in the Spanish Motocross GP in 1973. He not only became the first American to win a Gran Prix on a Spanish bike, but also the youngest rider to win a World Championship Motocross Grand Prix and the first rider to win this type of event in his debut race! Bultaco made the best of it and in 1975, the 360cc “Pomeroy Replica” was in the Bultaco line-up.
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