https://vimeo.com/150100059Here is Stacie B London also known as Triple Nickle 555 riding what we call Bandit the 360 Bandero. Why Bandero?
Once a upon two motorcycles Zeke and I walked into our favorite motorcycle bone yard L and L cycle in Dallas and stumbled upon two Bultacos that Tony just bought with 40 other motorcycles. After convincing mom what a great deal these were we headed back with the cash and took them home. Zeke's was a matching numbers m70 and I took the mutt with an m51 engine and a b61 frame.
We have been learning all about Mr. Honda's passion with the four stroke and now it was time to start learning about the two-stroke. Bultaco owners are passionate people and so was the founder Senor Bulto.
The m18 (model 18) 360 Bandito came to the states with 42hp and 35 Ftlbs. of torque. With it expansion chamber and light flywheel when it came on the pipe it was a wild filly to ride and because it was a handful it didn't sell very well. However, it is highly collectible now.
The Montadero was nothing more that a repackaged Bandito for the USA enduro market with a few changes. A head light and tail light. They removed the expansion chamber and installed a straight pipe and then put on a heavier 8 lbs flywheel. This produced less HP but had the same amount of torque as the Bandito and it didn't throw the rider.
Well we wanted to envision the cross between the two. What happens when you cross the heavy flywheel Montadero with and expansion chamber? You get a Bandero! It pulls and pulls through the rev range with no surprise wheelies! So we gave it the Montadero body work with a red paint job and black fenders.
Senor Bulto was an innovator and developed electronic ignition for the Taco's this with dual plug heads. However, this one is a magneto/points with single plug. Tickle the Amal kick it over a few times and it will roar to life.
Some of the reasons the Bandito and Montadero didn't sell very well. Fiberglass pelican fenders that bit it if you dumped it and a fiberglass tanks. One came with some Preston petty fenders and both had the lights removed.
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