There had been outright victories by lightweights in major events before, but it was the arrival of the Bultaco Sherpa in the mid-1960s that drove the final nail into the coffin of the heavyweight four-strokes in national and international trials. Bultaco’s meteoric rise to supremacy would surely have taken much longer had the Spanish manufacturer not had the foresight to recruit the world’s greatest trials rider, Sammy Miller, to spearhead development. Bultaco already possessed enormous experience of building competition two-strokes for road racing and moto-cross, and a 250cc single-cylinder ‘stroker’ was the natural choice for the new Sherpa trials model that made its debut at Earls Court in the autumn of 1964. By Christmas Miller had chalked up his first victory; the rest is history. This 350 Sherpa has recently been serviced and tidied up after a period of 15 years in storage. Presented in full working order and with current MoT, it represents a wonderful opportunity for the classic off-road collector or ‘twin-shock’ trials competitor.
There had been outright victories by lightweights in major events before, but it was the arrival of the Bultaco Sherpa in the mid-1960s that drove the final nail into the coffin of the heavyweight four-strokes in national and international trials. Bultaco’s meteoric rise to supremacy would surely have taken much longer had the Spanish manufacturer not had the foresight to recruit the world’s greatest trials rider, Sammy Miller, to spearhead development. Bultaco already possessed enormous experience of building competition two-strokes for road racing and moto-cross, and a 250cc single-cylinder ‘stroker’ was the natural choice for the new Sherpa trials model that made its debut at Earls Court in the autumn of 1964. By Christmas Miller had chalked up his first victory; the rest is history. This 350 Sherpa has recently been serviced and tidied up after a period of 15 years in storage. Presented in full working order and with current MoT, it represents a wonderful opportunity for the classic off-road collector or ‘twin-shock’ trials competitor.
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