I have been interested in motorcycles since I was a young boy. I would day-dream about riding around on a motorized bike and fantasize about all the places I could go. At some point I started buying issues of Dirt Rider and Dirt Bike magazines which gave me a longing for an endure or motorcross style bike.
The day dreaming came to an end one day while I was walking down an alley in our neighborhood. I was around 11 years old and I can remember it like it was yesterday. Right there, leaning against a fence in the alley amongst a pile of trash to be picked up by the city, was an early to mid 70’s Bultaco Motorcycle. I checked to confirm that it was indeed trash and then rolled it a few blocks home.
It was either a 73-74′ Bultaco Pursang MK7 dirt bike.
Or it was a 75-76′ Bultaco Frontera MK9.
I believe it was the Frontera as I can remember my friend from next door and I pushing each other around in the street and trying to see how fast we could go. Ahh those were good times.
Anyways long story short, I brought it over to my grandfathers cattle ranch to try to work on it but he really did not want anything to do with it as he despised motorcycles. My parents were also divorced so I did not have my father around to help. As the situation was, I ended up setting it in our alley about a year later when we moved. It bums me out because I would have really liked to have kept that bike. I think it would be pretty cool to still have it and to have eventually gotten it so that it was running. Oh well. Maybe one day I will run across another one.
Dave
Two Tires 