Yrjos bike

[TooFastTim]

In it's latest incarnation. Pic taken at the highland classic last weekend:

[albrid-3]

very trick

[jerry]

What about the kick starter? Where do you get one of those? Off something else? J

[TooFastTim]

Jerry, the kick starter is off the M199B. The last Bulto made. It was standard on that model.

[jerry]

Thanks Tim now I have to find one. J

[albrid-3]

Love the drill holes, makes them lighter, I new a fellow that drilled out the frame on a Al bandito 360 just to make it lighter 

[TooFastTim]

Yrjo has a thing for lightness. Not surprising when you consider that the bikes of that era weighed in excess of 200 lbs. if you have a look in a back issue of VMX he describes the restoration of the bike on which he won his first world championship, the weight saving on that bike is very subtle but significant.

[JC]

He also got Bultaco to agree to having Walter Luft remove a bunch of wt off one off his works bikes in mid/late 70s, only to find it completely changed the wt distribution & stuffed the handling. Expensive mistake. Wonder if he took that into account on this one??

[TooFastTim]

JC, the lessons Yrjo learned from Walters weight saving efforts were put to good use on the bike Yrjo restored.

[BULTACOBRIS]

Mika - Vesty's son. Rather good rider too.



Toni Bou having a go - looks a bit ginger?

[TooFastTim]

Mika - Vesty's son. Rather good rider too.

Indeed he is. An ex UK top 5 rider before studies got in the way. Mika now works at CERN on the LHC as a particle physicist. See here: https://phonebook.cern.ch/phonebook/#id=PE721979

P.S. Are you Graham W?

[BULTACOBRIS]

Not Graham - but i do ride with him.

[TooFastTim]

Hmm, if I could fix up some transport......(it's a long story)

[BULTACOBRIS]

Ah! Tim F?

[TooFastTim]

Ah! Tim F?

That's me!