So, so nice a recounting and presentation. I had one of the first 200cc Metrallas in the U.S., Wichita, Ks, in 1962. I road raced it at a San Angelo, Tx meet with no modifications but removed the silencer end. Not quite up to the top end of the 250s I had to run against but it's braking and cornering kept it in the fray. I did manage to spill it twice and retired from the heat, discovered that I'd not let the rear tire pressure down after seating the bead from a flat repair, so riding on 50psi did me in. Later on, I helped the then Bultaco (Cemoto East) distributor representative (Bill Dutcher) adjust the slipping clutch on his 250cc demonstrator while in White Plains, N.Y. We sold several Metralla 200s with one placing third in his class at Watkins Glen in August of 1965 ridden by a complete motorcycle novice who was a close friend at the time. I still have his trophy; he was so thrilled that he'd succeeded with some coaching I gave him about road racing, he have me the trophy. Saw Jody Nicholas ride a 250 TSS to a win at Vineland, N.J. in late '63 or early '64.

The Bultaco Metrella is a bike that many collectors (including myself) lust after. Don't see a whole lot of them on this side of the pond (I've seen 2 in my 30yrs of riding) so when you do see one, it's an event. Gorgeous motorbike with beautiful lines and that wonderful sound! Obviously these are the reasons this bike is so special to so many. And this bike with it's awesome owner and story fits perfectly at Petrolicious.

Great to see the Metralla on Petrolicious. I've owned 3 of them over the years since 1972 including a water cooled Bultaco TSS 250 racer. My first Metralla was purchased new when I was 17 years old for $640.00! I raced one of the Metrallas as well as the TSS back in the day. The race kit modified Metralla was much more reliable than the TSS. I'm glad I still have the standard Metralla road bike. I still love it, ride it and keep it perfect. Just looking at it in the workshop is enough to remind me of all those good times. Beautiful, quick, simple and light. What a great formula. Thank you for sharing you experiences and I understand your love of the marque.

Bultaco is a Spanish motorcycle brand founded in Barcelona by Mr. Paco Bultó in 1958. It produced models with a single-cylinder and two-stroke engine, with displacements between 50 c.c and 350 c.c. Due to several crises and different economic reasons he had to close in 1983.(extract from Wikipedia)

You can always tell when an enthusiast really knows his two strokes and tunes them to perfection when they DONT SMOKE when they are running.

I had 3 Bultacos when I was a student in Ohio. There was a dealer in Springfield, about 10 miles from school. I first had a 175 cc Mercurio, which was fun, but a bit tame. Then I traded it for a Matador, their dirt bike, which I played around with for a while but ultimately traded up for the Metralla Mk2, my favorite. I took it with me to grad school and drove it through a few Boston winters, and kept it until I settled down in Connecticut. I eventually sold it to the son of a friend who was interested in motorcycles more than I was in those days. I wish I still had it. a lovely bike with great handling and enough power to make life exciting.

Todos los que tenemos una Mercurio soñamos con tener una metralla. Felicidades por el vídeo, enhorabuena por tu garaje. Es un placer conocer gente que tiene pasión y conocimientos para poder poseer estás motocicletas tan especiales. Un saludo. All of us who have a Mercurio dream of having a Metralla Congratulations on the video, congratulations on your garage. It is a pleasure to meet people who have passion and knowledge to be able to own these special motorcycles. A greeting. Nous tous qui avons un Mercurio rêver d'avoir un Metralla. Félicitations pour la vidéo, félicitations pour votre garage. C’est un plaisir de rencontrer des personnes passionnées et ayant les connaissances nécessaires pour posséder ces motos spéciales. Une salutation

How can there be so many people complaining about the language? In every video? Learn to click on the SUBTITLES -button, it isn't that hard.

Awesome to see. My brother and I just got our grandfather's 1966 Bultaco Mercurio 175 and are starting to rebuild it. It'll take lots of work since it was used as a dirt bike for my mom and her brothers, but I hope we can get it at least running and looking somewhat decent again.

Excellent video. I owned a Metralla , as did many others. New they were around $825 USD. .I bought my last one in the 80s for $300. Excellent bikes, wish I still had mine. The Bultacos, Ossas and the Montessas were remarkable bikes. I owned a few of each.

I wish Petrolicious did more videos on Motorcycles.

Beautiful bike and quite rare to see one here in the USA. Thanks for sharing.

Never heard of it and learned something new today, awesome!!!

Reminds me of my neighbor whose got a 199cc bultaco. Sadly he passed a couple years ago. Nostalgia.

My first real MC was a '68 Metralla. What a great handlling bike! If I recall correctly, It weighed around 240 lbs. Super nimble. top speed around 108 mph ( according to the speedometer.}. i blew up the flywheel while racing another Metralla and i missed a shift. It was covered under the warranty. I also raced several dirt bikes from Bultaco. My fave was a Sherpa S 200.

This bike looks like an absolute riot to ride! Great video!!

We got to see more motorcycles in here please 👍 too many older bikes that are forgotten and are very beautiful 😎

Merci Petrolicious pour ces belles vidéos...❤❤❤

Beautiful bikes and the most wonderful places to enjoy the road and trails of the countryside around where you find yourself living in 😁👍🍀

J'ai eu la chance de posséder une Bultaco Metralla en 1972. Quel bel hommage à ma bultac

I've owned a couple of Bultacos. My first bike was a Bultaco Lobito 175,, ummmm in 1974. I bought a basket case Bultaco Metralla 1976 or 77. Rebuilt it, turned it into a cafe racer with clip ons and resets. Painted it red and yellow after the Spanish flag and found a 360 Pursang for it. It went like a scalded cat but I kept getting pulled over by police. I suppose it was just different. Sold it to a friend who later raced it.

Gilles your passion and skill in looking after those fabulous bikes is a credit to you. I had a Frontera for a few years but sadly no longer own it-I have been looking at Metrallas though-especially with the America modifications. A good friend of mine has recently rebuilt and restored 2 TSS’s-beautiful bikes.

Every Spanish motorcyclist dreams with having the Bultaco Metralla and the Montesa Impala

Thanks Petrolicious for that video about motorcycle made in Spain

Back in the day I had a 250 Desmo and a mate had a Matrella so naturally we swapped bikes form time to time and the Matrella certainly went well but it was a bit more skittish than my Duke and it was a bit more finnicy to live with but it was also delightfully simple and so damn pretty. Its definitely one of the great bikes of the era

woa.... je pensais que Bultaco c'était uniquement du Trial !!! Merci pour la passion. Formidable.

Gilles Escuyer, thank you for sharing your story. I love this video, such a die-hard enthusiast. Great character, and such great bikes. Please make more! :) And to those, whose education are failing them, press subtitles. It´s really not that hard, you get free content.

Another wonderful video, thank you!

My dad had one in the 60s.My favorite.

Felicidades campeon.👏 Siempre Bultaco.👍

great story. mythic bike. bultaco is a catalan brand. motorcycling is strong in catalan culture; there are other manufacturers + many great current + past riders in moto gp, trials, enduro, parís-dakar, etc. are catalan. sete giberneu, one that kept rossi on his toes in the early 2000s, is the grandson of the bultaco founder, frances bultà i marquès. bultà company became bultaco.

Incradible video, thanks

Best video ! His passion shines !

Precioso video y magnificas motos. Disfrutalas y gracias por enseñarnos tu garaje.

Growing up in the 70's during the meteoric rise of Motocross in the US, there was nothing that I wanted more than a Pursang 125. Jim Pomeroy was my hero!

Even if there was no subtitles available, you have to be heartless to not get the message the guy is broadcasting.

When I was 15 years old I broke 100 MPH for the first time on San Timoteo Canyon Road in Redlands Calfornia riding a 1967 Bultaco Metralla. I can still remember the sensation 50 years later! Also at that time I owned a Bultaco 125 Sherpa "S" with a 250 Astro piston/cylinder, so I was familiar with the right-side shifter.

Pretty sure you mean "Rolling LEGEND," NOT "Rolling Myth." A myth is, well, ... MYTHICAL (duh!), as in NOT REAL. A legend, on the other hand, is exactly what this bike is.

Bultaco es una marca de motocicletas española fundada en Barcelona por el señor Paco Bultó en 1958. Producía modelos con motor monocilíndrico y motor de dos tiempos, con cilindradas comprendidas entre los 50 c.c y 350 c.c. Debido a varias crisis y diferentes motivos económicos tuvo que cerrar en 1983. (extracto de Wikipedia)

I moved to Spain a few years ago and i wondered about these bikes i´ve never seen them in Scandinavia! Some of the old dual sport bikes are sick as hell i see them often for sale there is a big market for them

Great video, please do more motorcycles

Qué bonita moto muchas felicidades !!

Félicitations pour cette magnifique vidéo !

Amazing, thank you.

Welch WUNDERSCHÖNE Landschaft ist das! Wo ist das? DORT MÖCHTE ICH LEBEN !!!! FRANKREICH????😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

I used to own one, a 250 single road bike. A pig to start. But now of course I wish I'd kept it. Used to ride into Uni with my wife on the back, and she wasn't small.

Not a myth. An epic ride.

Love the video, love the bike (nearly had one as my first bike in 1970, until parents intervened). However I am curious about the use of the word "myth" in the title. Myth implies it doesn't exist. This is beautifully real and a LEGEND.

We had a Bultaco dirt bike rotting in the backyard back in the early 80s. As kids, we used to poke holes in the sun baked seat vinyl with our fingers. Who knew...?

Buena maquina 👍 y muy buen vídeo

Ces moteurs 2 temps a refroidissement par air sont parmi les plus beaux....Merci!

That is beautiful.

That trials bike is gorgeous.

Thank you Sir.

Je ne savais même pas que c'était une marque de moto, je pensais que c'était une vieille marque d'huile moteur ou quelque chose dans cet esprit... ^^' J'aime bien le "fumigène dans un nid de frelons", c'est pas loin de la vérité ! ;)

The most beautiful bike ever made.

Somehow my pops ended up with a Bultaco MK II 250 Pursang Boat Tail in the mid '70s. We'd trailer all over the gosh forsaken state of NJ to find places the Cops wouldn't hassle ya at but they ALWAYS showed up. The Bultaco was crazy loud n powerful. We had no idea we possessed such a treasure.

I have Bultacos, a whole garage full but there all Pursangs.

Shame that english subtitles arent complete 😭 awesome bike with Great history

Wish my brother had kept his 65 200 metralla, but back then who knew? that bike was a rocket 🚀 straight from the dealership with no mods.

Perfection 👍

Cool bikes .

Another high quality presentation from Petrolicious. Question - were the first and last scenes filmed at the abandoned Reims-Gueux circuit?? An active track from 1926 to 1969 - hosted many F1 races.

What a beatiful motocycle.

owned a metralla250 back in 67 should of kept it

very nice video..what camera and lens you use for video???????

Not sure if everyone knows and I'm calling the obvious, but Metralla means "Shrapnel" (That's the reason of all the "bomb" comparisons on the video).

Man I dont like many motos at all, but wait, what a great thumbnail! I really would like to have some of then on high resolution, maybe to print them to my kitchen! Seriously! LOL

C'est merveilleux.

I would like to have that trials bike. That is sweet.

They where built in Barcelona like the Montesa brand too

People who don't understand about motorcycles, have never heard of the world-renowned Bultaco brand.

Très belle, la Metralla, et le video aussi. Je suis collectioner de Bultaco, i je suis surpris de voire dans le garaje une Bultaco Matador MK1, a coté de la MK3. C’est pareil a la motociclette que j'ai vu a le museé de Basella, a Lleida (Espagne). Gilles, cette Matador MK1 est original, ou c'est une replique? Merci.

Metralla means shrapnel, just saying. It's a beautiful bike.

Stuck in time

I have a 200cc model 35 !

This is in my opinion the most beatifull bike in the world. A true “spanish “ hero.

Bultaco 👌

La plus extraordinaire bécane de cette époque !

When is bikes first came out there was absolutely nothing that would beat them they were blowing off 650 triumphs no problem they were the bike fast Nimble and lightweight and most people soup them up with all kinds of gadgets and expansion chamber bigger carburetor and stuff like that and they were awesome fast and you can strip down a lot of weight off of them chop them down to where they had no extra weight they were awesome

I feel like I'm missing half of what he is saying with English subtitles. Just in case he doesn't say, Bultaco was a Spanish brand

I know I'm being ethnocentric here, but could you please have a spoken translation rather than subtitles? I want to see the enthusiasm in the narrators face, the artistry of the design and the majesty of the vehicle carving up a road, rather than reading a block of letters at the bottom of the screen.

👍🏼

Someone knows where is this brand from? This is a challenge with one condition, don't use Wikipedia or internet, ask to pepole (I already know where this brand is from)

Great video, really awful subtitles. He said way more than what was subtitled.

So sad they have moved to electric bikes...a simple Bultaco 250 cc retro bike would do it great in the market.

👌, ❤️ from 🇮🇳

Made in Barcelona.

One of my dream bikes. Unfortunately can not understand a thing he is saying. Subtitles?

Nice SPANISH bike!

The french Elton John with a spanish machine, multicultural amigos.

Great looking bike. Wish it was in English to learn more about it.

Doesn't he look like Van Demie?

Muy buena marca en sus años , una pena la desaparición de estas marcas , yo tube una metralla , ella , acabo MUY MAL , yo , mejor

Isn’t this an American channel??? Why is it in French???

Great bike....terrible jacket.

eeeeeehhhhh duuuuuuuhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhh

Elton John??

ehhh. ehhhh ... ehhhhhh. chatue, ehhhhh,....

Fricken bultaco junk I had 3 of them nothing but Spanish garbage fuckin junk all of them every last one I had needed a magneto moter was poorly balance.. if you over reved it a could of times the moter would Shake and eventually destroying the magneto every one I worked on magnto all busted up in pieces when they were alive gteate trials bike but didn't live long