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Vroom Room

In the backroom of the new Texas Vintage Motorcycle Museum stands a 1967 Bultaco Metralla, a sleek minimalist machine of silver and black curves. Once the fastest two-stroke production street bike in the world, this Spanish beauty has an almost mythic reputation among biking cognoscenti—only 5,000 of them were thought to have been made. Riders say that when they’re perched behind the Bultaco’s handlebars, they’re one with the road—light, fast, and free.

“This Bultaco has the right kind of curves, the right kind of lines,” museum owner and bike collector Gordon Massie said. “I love the way this pipe swoops down. You see the curve of the taillight matches the curve of the tank matches the curve of the front fender matches the curve of

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