SPANISH POST-WAR ROAD AND RACING MOTORCYCLES

A fleet, simple two-stroke single, endowed with "earoling" abilities second to none! Dan Shorey's description of a Bultaco sums up the unique character of the Spanish motorcycle.

Based on extensive on-the-spot research, which could now never be repeated, in this sought after book Mick Walker covers the history of Spanish roadsters and road-racing motorcycles from the mid 1940s to 1986. From their beginnings as a back shed industry in the years immediately after World War 2, Spanish motorcycle manufacturers went from strength to strength to achieve extraordinary success at both national and international level. Mick focuses particularly on the five leading manfacturers

Bultaco, Derbi, Montesa, Ossa and Sanglas-but also brings in the mass of smaller makes which contributed to the Spanish success, from Aleu to Yamaha-Semsa The first Osprey Collector's Library to cover a whole industry in one volume, this book will undoubtedly become a standard work of reference.

The front jacket illustration is taken from a 1962 Bultaco sales brochure and shows an unnamed competitor aboard one of that company's TSS racing machines. Sisters of just such a bike won countless road races around the world in the early 1960s. By way of contrast, the back cover features a typical Spanish lightweight two-stroke sports roadster, the Montesa Impala, circa 1966.