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They were good bikes, had Hodaka Wombat, not Combat.

I used to go watch motocross races that were held locally, it was fun, but I remember there was a couple racers that rode the Bultaco I think 250??....but they sounded different than the other bikes, just cool.

My neighbor had a Hodaka or 2. I don't remember which model, but I think one might have been a Dirt Squirt.

Had one about 1980. I traded for it from a guy I worked with.

He decided he wanted it back, so I traded it back to him.

It was a fun little dirt bike!

Virgil B.

My 1st real dirtbike was a Bultaco Sherpa S100. Raced 100c cc class MX at Aztalan WI. Track/club is still AMA district 16 active. Progressed to 125 Suzuki, 250 Suzuki. Good times!

Bultaco

I remember seeing them. I don't remember one actually running though.

One of my trail riding friends back in the 70's and 80's was a fan of 250cc Bultacos, Montesas, and Ossas.

Back then the Europeans off-road bikes were superior to the Japanese, but when the Japanese decided to build competitive bikes they passed most of the Europeans in both lower prices and higher, or at least equal, performance. The one niche that the Europeans kept a pretty tight hold onto was observed trials. I remember when Mick Andrews switched rides from Ossa to Yamaha and then back and forth between Ossa and Yamaha.

A friend of mine had one back in high school, the name sounded badazz.

Bultaco Pursanf 125

We had a Suzuki dealership, but my dad like to ride Husqvarna motocrossers and enduros. He switched to Suzuki because it didn't look good to ride something he didn't sell. It was pretty evident the better quality of the European bikes over the Japanese at the time buy looking at the welds on the frames. The European bikes were welded by true professionals. The Japanese bikes looked like they were welded by me.

My life as a "biker" started with a Hodaka Ace 100.

The big sexy chrome tank held enough gas for a couple days of entertainment!

I had a Bultaco 250 Pursang. I bought it used in about 1972, I think it was a 1968 model.

Bultaco is back in business, it’s called Sherco now. They combined the name Sherpa which was a popular model for Bultaco back in the late 60’s and the name Bultaco and came up with Sherco. They are excellent off road scooters. We have a Sherco dealer here in Houston up North of town.

That was a real throwback. I started racing there in 1978. Lots of great memories of that place.

We started riding Hodaka’s in the 60’s , mine was a 100 cc with a 90 swing arm, loved that bike, I remember a Honda car dealership opening on 39th , old 66, we laughed our butts off at the little rice burning cars, riding Hodaka on trails which was I-40 being built, heard this low sounding bike coming and it was a Honda, 90 or 100, couldn’t believe what I was seeing, we made a point to throw dirt in their faces, two or three years and those Honda’s were passing us. We saw all the foreign bikes come and go.

My first motorcycle was a Bultaco Metralla, a street bike. Dim 6v electrics, had to premix the gas, but boy did that thing handle. I asked it to do all kinds of things and it never had the slightest problem doing them, right now, exactly how you wanted. It set a standard for handling that was only approached by the Rickmans I had later. What a motorcycle!

Same here, but I remember it as 'Baz's Box'. Am I wrong? And I loved Hodaka's, BEST model names ever.

You must not have ridden limey bikes much.

Rode a buddy's 250 Pursang a couple times which led me to buy a 250 Husqvarna CR for our '70's era desert dirt bike racing. The Husky had better gearing for better top end acoss a dry lake bed and very good handling. Those were the days.

My uncle had one back in the 60s/70s, also a triumph.

When I was racing Motocross from '78 to '86 I loved the variety of bikes at the track.

It all went to schidtt when they went 4 stroke.