Classic Dirt Bike

DIRT BIKE LIFE

A picture surfaced a week or so ago. It was a picture which pulled my attention back through time to those carefree days when I only had one motorcycle in the garage. It was a pic of a 325 Bultaco which I’d bought new in 1977 but while a memory jogger it isn’t quite the point of this tech feature. The point is there was only one motorcycle to work on to prepare for the next weekend and it got the total focus of my attention.

How things have changed… despite a recentish clearout of bikes in the admirable hope of finding truth in the saying ‘less bikes means more work better’ there appears to be more of the things in the

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