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SPANISH FLYER

Back in pandemic times a nice man in Spain advertised a Bultaco Mercurio for sale. While a little rough, it was cheap. Unfortunately, arranging shipment here in the US proved prohibitively expensive and complicated. Said Spanish gentleman, Albert Pons, connected me with a local shipping company that offered the service for roughly a third the price. Putting this together took a few weeks; by the time I determined it was a viable approach, the bike was sold.

Senor Pons, it seems, was in the process of thinning a collection he and his father had amassed over decades; hundreds of Spanish motorcycles. When the Mercurio deal fell throughthis model.

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