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As we photographed his bike Damon Wood confessed he hadn’t actually restored it and the credit for the majority of the work had to go to Philippe Vandewalle at Old Knobblies. “I saw the matador on Philippe’s business website and sort of had to have it,” he grins wryly. As he said this I wondered privately how many of us have been smitten in the same way by a bike. “That’s not to say I’ve not done anything to it since I bought it,” he continues, “but my involvement in this bike has been more seeking out the smaller bits and pieces or rarities that are not easy to find.”
What Damon means is he’s found such things as proper fasteners with ‘Bultaco’ forged in them, the rubber mounting that protects the speedo from vibrations, other rubber bits with ‘Bultaco’ imprinted in them and that sort of thing. “If you’re doing a restoration then these are the things that take the time to source, or at least they
