Monday, January 25, 2010

...my Spanish lady...


the new giro tool...Great story..My friend John sends me an eBay link..1964 Bultaco Mercurio ...'buy this'.
I watch, I wait, in the last minute I bid like $800.00, it was around 100.00 or so..I win it for 325.00 and I had an eBay coupon for 15% so out of pocket something like 284.00.
  The bike was near Flint MI. Whilst I was making arrangements to get it to Forward Air, John, you remember John, calls...STOP, ROAD Trip !!! Turns out he just bought an El Tigre out in Milwaukee. The guy he bough the El Tigre from had just bought a Suzuki road race bike in N.H. and John cuts a deal with him to bring the Suzuki to Milwaukee and pick up the Bultaco. And we can then swing by Flint and pick up the Bultaco I bought...it's a plan.!!
We take off from my place in CT at 5 am thanksgiving morning, we were in Milwaukee at 9:30 that night, Next morning got to the guys garage at 7:30ish, dropped the suzuki, loaded up the Bul, shot the bull for an hour or so and were off to MI. Picked up the second Bul, and headed back across Canada and were back at my house at 6 am Sat morning..
48 hours, 2200 miles, 10 states, 2 countries, 2 Bultacos..
















with alot of help from my friends, turned out nice, runs great....I need a Metralla !!