1974 BULTACO PURSANG 250 SERVICE MANUAL SERIES

Guess who’s getting in on the weight race, but on more legitimate footing this time around? That’s right, friends, Bultaco.Īnd guess what the new 360 Pursang Mark VII (alias the 352 Jim Pomeroy Replica) weighs? Wrong. Both the 250 and 450 Kawasakis weighed in at under 220 lb. The YZ Yamahas, the Husqvarna 250CR (a magnesium and chrome moly rocketship that we tested last month), and the Montesa 250 VR, for example. In the middle of 1973 and in early ’74, some truly light machines have seen their way to dealers’ showrooms. If you know where to look for such things, you may have noticed that everybody else’s bikes were suddenly getting lighter and lighter, as well, and in the middle of a production year! Well, at least the ads said they were lighter. The Hondas were advertised as light, very light, and they were.

1974 BULTACO PURSANG 250 SERVICE MANUAL SERIES

The introduction of the Honda Elsinore series brought> buyer attention around to another crucially important aspect of motocross bikes-weight. A manufacturer is no longer ashamed to admit that his 250 MX can’t even reach, let alone break, the 30 hp figure, because he knows that no one else’s 250 MX can do it either. Most of the factories stopped releasing such info soon after this decree, but little by little they’ve begun releasing more realistic figures. Then, the government said that if you’re going to print hp figures, you’d better be ready to back them up. Inįact, they got so bad at it that several people began referring to Spanish hp ratings (Montesa was also culpable, as was Ossa, although to a lesser extent) as ponies rather than horses. And, as much as we like Bultacos, we must admit that they haven’t been the most innocent in this respect. Everywhere you looked in motorcycle-related brochures or publications, there they were-the Orientals and the Europeans-all trying to out horsepower one another from the advertising desk rather than from the dyno room.

Look Out DeCoster, Here Comes John Q, Public.įirst it was the horsepower race.

1974 bultaco pursang 250 service manual