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Butler a la français

In CDB issue 62 you had a report on a Butler trials machine but it was very different from the original model. Please find here some photos of our last restoration for our Musee de la Moto Tout Terrain – a 250 Butler Tempest from 1964.

We bought this bike a long time ago and it was in storage for many years and it too has had some modifications in the past. The original mudguards had been changed for aluminium items. So with help of original photos we have rebuilt patterns and manufactured moulds for glass fibre mudguards. The bike is now

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