Showing posts with label Trials bikes are choppers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trials bikes are choppers. Show all posts
6th Jan there are two serious motorcycle auctions in Las Vegas. Countless boardtrackers, Vincents and Von Dutch paintjobs. If I had won the lottery a couple of months ago when it was £113,000,000 (I actually spent £6 on tickets and won £7 so who's laughing now) I would buy these...
1934 Harley Davidson CAC, one of their first factory racers, extremely rare and could well be one of the most expensive HDs to be sold at auction. It's all business.
Excelsior Speedway bike. Just because it would look great sitting next to the CAC.
My trials bike is a 1999 Bultaco 250 2-stroke Graham Jarvis replica. They scrapped the '98 bike and designed this bike from scratch and it is literally just an engine and wheels, the whole thing only weighs 69kg. They did such a good job that neither themselves nor any of the competition could improve on it for 6 years, until Montesa brought out a four-stroke fuel injected bike. 1999 was the only year it was produced under the Bultaco badge, later becomming Sherco.
This bike never ceases to surprise me. The weighting, gearing and power delivery are so perfect , the limiting factor is definitely my skill. Liquid cooled 250cc 2-stroke with high-inertia flywheels for low-rev torque, 18" rear, 21" front, no indicators, no mirrors, no seat!
"Trials bikes are basically choppers" -Renshaw
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