Montesa Mono
The life of a dirt bike is generally hard from the get-go; it doesn’t matter what discipline they are used in, the off-road world is tough on them. Level of care varies from owner to owner and some do get the attention they need to perform at their best, others less so. There are those rarities which miss all this though and lead a gentler life to survive the passage of time mostly unscathed; for them the problems stem from not being in competition and being pulled apart between events. Just such a machine Albert Bergada unloaded in the car park where the entry assembled for the Pre65 Scottish Two Day Trial in Kinlochleven at the end of April and Richard Allen set eyes on a 1990 Montesa Cota 310 he’d bought.
The more he looked at it the more Richard realised how little work the bike had actually done and, while he was more focused on the start of the Pre65 event, he took a few moments to discuss the 310 with me as I took pics. Coming as it did at the end of the air-cooled line at Montesa, it’s pretty much an interim bike to test a few ideas before
