Mi respuesta fue contundente : no tenéis ni puta idea de motos !! Y evidentemente decliné su invitación, para participar en la exposición que se organizaba en la reunión. 370 cc de dos tiempos para acelerar 200 metros, y me contestan que no me admiten la inscripción porque la moto no es suficientemente potente para competir con motos de 1000 cc con incluso turbos o NOS. Les mando unas fotos de la moto en construcción y les comento que es una Bultaco con motor pursang 250 subido a 370 cc y caja de láminas, una moto de 90 kg con casi cuarenta y pico caballos …. Según llega la fecha de la prueba, la organización me pide que les enseñe la moto y le de las características técnicas. Yo ya les comento que mi interés se centra en competir en el sprint y que voy a preparar una moto especialmente para esta prueba, algo nada convencional para los tiempos que corren … totalmente antisistema, ruidosa, contaminante, salvaje, sin electrónica ……. Me lo pasé genial y me quedaron muchas ganas de volverĮn 2015, a la vuelta de mi año sabático, después de parar mi actividad con Radical Ducati y estando exponiendo en la Bike Expo de Verona, la organización de Glemseck 101 me invita a participar en la reunión para montar un stand.
Fuí el primer español en participar en esta prueba. Yo había participado en esta prueba en 2013 con MATADOR, una Ducati 900 SS preparada que había hecho para mi hermano. Once a smaller carburettor was put on, it was much more manageable for me.CLANDESTINA : la moto que GLEMSECK 101 tuvo miedo a invitarĬlandestina surge como un desafío que me marcó, para participar en el sprint de la GLEMSECK 101 en Alemania en el verano de 2015. “I struggled to ride it really and then dad and I learned the bike could have potentially been a specially-built one to be used by Vic Allan.
With around 25bhp on tap at 10,000rpm from its 51.5mm x 60mm engine, it was a little peaky, as Damon confirmed with his memories of the original machine in 1973. The Pursang quickly improved, becoming less ‘Rickman’ and more ‘Bultaco’ along the way, so by the Mk2 it was properly a Bultaco and, by the end of 1971, when the Mk5 was introduced as a production bike, it was the market leader in style and performance. However, when Bultaco got the bike it became ‘pursang’, which means ‘thoroughbred’ and, naturally, as both words were used as names the first letter was capitalized. Looking at definitions of words, the French ‘metisse’ translates as ‘mixed heritage’ and relates to the number of parts that were used to create the Rickman machines and it sounds more classy than ‘bitza’. The Pursang range was developed from machines built by the Rickman brothers, who worked closely with Señor Bulto and from their efforts came the Bultaco Metisse, which became the Pursang Mk1. What Damon was bidding for and raced in 1973, was a Bultaco Model 89 Mk5 125cc Pursang, a genuine UK machine for the new thing of schoolboy MX, which had moved on apace from the Bantams that were the first bikes to be used. He continued: “I raced one just like this in 1973 and that sort of connection always stays with you and I started thinking ‘I wonder if there’s one out there…’ Next thing I knew I was bidding on it.” “To be honest I doubted my sanity at buying it when the delivery wagon turned up and unloaded it,” he grinned while showing me a picture of what was dropped off. Looking at Damon’s superb little 125 Pursang it is hard to believe what it was like when it arrived at his house. Of course, when you make your purchase via an internet auction site, sometimes you are surprised by what turns up. Whatever the case, and for Damon Wood, it is the latter of these reasons, we seek out the object of our interest. To a greater or lesser degree all of us in the classic world tend to look back fondly on the bikes we liked a while ago, or the bikes we were impressed within a particular period – it could be because we wanted one and couldn't get one or perhaps it is because we had one and regretted selling it, or perhaps a particular model was part of our growing up. Bultaco Pursang Classic Dirt Bike | Winter 2019 Those rose-tinted glasses have a lot to answer for sometimes.
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