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Marque Remarks => Spaniards (Bultaco, Ossa, Montesa etc) => Topic started by: mx250 on August 31, 2010, 06:26:23 pm

Title: Incredable.
Post by: mx250 on August 31, 2010, 06:26:23 pm

(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/montesa/montesa_impala1_smal.jpg) 8) :o

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: TT on August 31, 2010, 07:11:09 pm

Incredibly small!   :D :D

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: Mike52 on August 31, 2010, 07:13:12 pm

Is it real or a model?
Pretty all the same. :)

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: mx250 on August 31, 2010, 07:51:19 pm

Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) 8)

(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/montesa/impala-082g.jpg)

(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/montesa/impala-090g.jpg)

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: TT on August 31, 2010, 09:07:15 pm

Damn, you've got big hands, Graeme!!  :o

Ok, pardon my ignorance, but what is it a model of?
And don't say Montesa.........  :-\

Sorry, I'm new to this Spanish stuff. But keen to learn.  ;D

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: cyclegod on August 31, 2010, 09:12:32 pm

Impala road bike

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: mx250 on August 31, 2010, 09:15:58 pm

I'm not up on these thing either but it most probably is an Impala 250cc, or maybe a Kenya 175cc. 

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: TooFastTim on August 31, 2010, 09:17:14 pm

Tony, it's a Mont Impala. The impala was their bread & butter for years.

Montesa were the creation of Pedro Permayer who, following the Spanish civil war which left the Spanish economy rooted, saw a market for a cheap utilitarian motorcycle. Permayer enlisted the skills of a very talented designer and together they designed the impala.

In order to expand their market Permayer and his designer began racing their bikes, slowly breaking into the off road scene but concentrating mostly on the road racing side. In the early sixties Permayer decided to quit racing. A decision with which his designer disagreed vehemently. He left Montesa.

The designers name: Franceso Xavier Bulto  ;D

(P.S. it's a 175)

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Z208OAqS4COw5M:http://www.motocicletasdeayer.com/tiendavirtual/images/MONTESA%20IMPALA%20175%20SPORT%20MENOSI.JPG&t=1)

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: TT on August 31, 2010, 09:29:01 pm

Gotta love this forum! Any question answered. No matter how stupid.  :D
Thanks.

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: TooFastTim on August 31, 2010, 09:30:35 pm

There are no stupid questions Tony.

Happy to share my knowledge with anybody who'll listen and so is everybody else on here.

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: BultacoMacca on August 31, 2010, 09:44:36 pm

MX250 is that your model, or is it a photo from a website you've found?
I'm keen to see where you found this little gem and if there are other models/brands.
The detail is fantastic.
Macca

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: SAABCOMBI on August 31, 2010, 10:11:37 pm

just detail, lovely, anymore, l saw a Small scale Rickman Metisse once, but not shaw where l saw it. ???

Title: Re: Incredable.
Post by: mx250 on August 31, 2010, 11:38:11 pm

Quote from: BultacoMacca on August 31, 2010, 09:44:36 pm

MX250 is that your model, or is it a photo from a website you've found?
I'm keen to see where you found this little gem and if there are other models/brands.
The detail is fantastic.
Macca

Nah, not me or my model  :P.

I can't remember where I pinched it from. I think it was a Spanish speaking forum and I think it was about the guys building the parts and the bikes from scratch.

Sorry. I might have to retrace my steps ::).

The detail is UN-BLOODY- BELIEVABLE  ;D.