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SPANISH TRIALS BIKES (OSPREY COLLECTOR'S LIBRARY)

by Don Morley

Published by Osprey Publishing. 1st. 1988

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Osprey Collector's Library. The story of a sport once dominated by the British. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 192 pages.

Top corners lightly bumped. Light foxing mainly to prelims, margins and text block else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has some minor foxing to front flap, is a little scuffed and lightly rubbed at corners.

ISBN: 0850456630
Stock no. 1827814

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Contents

  • Foreword by Sammy Miller
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Bultaco - the early days
  • Birth of the production Sherpa
  • Dawning of the five-speed era
  • In search of still more power
  • The final years
  • Bultaco in use today
  • Montesas large and small
  • A period of change
  • The difficult eighties
  • Rise of the phoenix
  • Montesa in use today
  • Ossa - last of the three
  • A boost from outside
  • Success and stagnation
  • Bigger engines and Andrews returns
  • A doubtful future
  • Ossa in use today
  • Merlin - a Spanish revival?
  • Appendix - Specifications
  • 1. Bultaco
  • 2. Montesa
  • 3. Ossa
  • 4. Merlin
  • Interesting and ex-works registration numbers

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