The Pursang range was later expanded to 125 cc, 360cc and 370 cc.
#1976 BULTACO PURSANG TRIAL#
Bultaco dominated the World Trials Championship in the 1970s, winning the title eight times, and winning the Scottish Six Days Trial four times.īultaco's premier model in the USA, the Pursang, was an excellent handling and powerful 250 cc competition model that was competitive in virtually any type of speed-based off-road competition. This coincided with and, perhaps, stimulated the growth in the popularity of trials in Europe and later the USA, which provided a lucrative market for Bultaco in the years to come. He also claimed the European Trials Championship in 19. Miller won the gruelling Scottish Six Days Trial in 1965, and then repeated the feat with wins in 19. Irish trials ace Sammy Miller teamed with Bultó to produce a lightweight two-stroke machine which, overnight, rendered the heavy four-strokes obsolete. At that time trials was almost exclusively a British sport using big heavy four-stroke machines.
Perhaps the most famous Bultaco model is the Sherpa T, a trials bike, which revolutionised the sport in the 1960s. īultaco produces electric motorbikes in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, also the site of the original 1958 factory.Īlthough they made road and road racing motorcycles, the company had its greatest success with models for off-road competition the Pursang for motocross, the Matador for enduros, the Sherpa T for observed trials competition, and the Astro for short flat-track. The US trademark is now owned by HDW Enterprises, parent company of a parts and repair specialist for vintage Bultacos. In 2000, the bikes became 'Sherco by Bultaco', and in 2001 the Bultaco name was dropped altogether. The bikes were initially named Bultaco Shercos. In 1998, rights to the Bultaco name were purchased by Marc Tessier, who used it to help launch a range of purpose-built trials motorcycles from his company Sherco Moto S.A.R.L. Sete Gibernau used to have this on the back of his crash helmet when he raced MotoGP. Bultó witnessed British motorcycle racer David Whitworth giving the signal to his pit crew to signify that all was well. The other part of the company logo, the " Thumbs up" symbol, came after Sr. CEMOTO is an acronym for "Compañia Española de Motores". The name was a suggestion of one of Bultaco's premier racers, and close friend of Sr. Bultó's surname with the last three of his nickname "Paco". "Bultaco" comes from combining the first four letters of Sr. Just two months later Bultaco entered its first Spanish Grand Prix, taking seven of the first ten places. On March 24, 1959, Bultaco held a press day and launched its first motorcycle, the road-going 125cc Bultaco Tralla 101, named after a Spanish word for whip. Setting up shop in very primitive conditions at an old farm owned by Bultó, things developed quickly. Keen to return to racing, they persuaded him that their greatest hope lay in forming a new company. Bultó was invited to a meeting by several of the former staff of Montesa's racing department.
The suggestion to form a new company is said to have come a few days later when Sr. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the majority of Montesa's racing department left shortly afterwards as well. Failing to reach a compromise, Bultó decided to leave Montesa to concentrate on his other business interests.
Bultó, the driving force behind the racing program and responsible for much of the company’s technical expertise was vehemently opposed. As an economy measure, Permanyer (the majority shareholder) felt that the company should withdraw from racing. This slump brought to a head disagreements between Bultó and the other senior director Pere Permanyer. The move was protracted, disrupting production and was followed by a downturn in the Spanish economy. After several years of steady growth and road racing success, in 1957 Montesa moved to larger facilities. Francesc "Paco" Bultó was a director of the Montesa motorcycle company, founded in 1944. The origin of the Bultaco motorcycle company dates from May 1958.
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