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Bultacos, Montesas and Ossas have
all gone up by over 100% since last summer, but why? Up until last summer, I
was paying between £1,000 and £1,350 for very clean, original Spanish
motorcycles with matching engine and chassis numbers. Now, you cannot buy such
machines for under £3,000 on any of the auction websites, and do bear in mind
that these may well not be good original machines. So why the sudden increase
in prices? For very good reason and they will continue to increase in value,
like many under valued classic motorcycles.
Quite simply the cost of buying
and restoring an investment grade Spanish trials or motocross bike was around
£4,000-£5,000, including buying a donor machine. That does not include paying
someone to do the long, arduous restoration work. Just what you see on the
handlebars will cost you £350 in parts alone. More and more people trawled
auction sites, bought bikes made up of numerous parts from other motorcycles
and spent a king's ransom "doing them up in their shed". They then
found out that engine and chassis numbers did not match. Then they discovered
that after investing £4,500 on the bike, and an immense amount of their time
and passion, that it was only worth about £800!
The wheel turns, and it seems
that all of the decent machines have been snapped up by people with a good eye
for these old competition machines and sellers now want nearer the true value
for their bikes.
All Spanish trials bikes have a
very distinctive look. Montesa Cotas have a one-piece red fibreglass cover,
which covers the fuel tank and makes up the side panels and seat unit. Bultaco
Sherpas just look, well, insect-like and unique. Ossas are the most
"traditional" looking with styling later copied by the Japanese
marques, but they still look different. Even Spanish motocross machines looked
unique, handled superbly and, for the time, went like stink.
Like all classics, Montesa and
Bultaco had competition success. In 1965, 67 and 68, motorcycle legend Sammy
Miller won the Scottish six days trial. Montesa won the Scottish Six Days Trial
in 1980. Sammy Miller was instrumental in the design of the Bultaco Sherpa and
developed a motorcycle that destroyed the competition and set a new standard.
Bultaco and Montesa also produced
championship winning motocross machines. Bultaco made the Pursang and Montesa
the Capra, extraordinary looking, superb handling, fast (for their time)
machines that won races. These two brands offer all the ingredients that highly
investable, classic vehicles always possess-
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