Frankie I hardly spoke to him so may have got the wrong impression. I remember lining up at the spare parts desk on Saturday mornings, Peter Schoene was great, always tolerated my stupid questions! Yes I did buy the Frontera, I think it was same the day I first saw it!! I had more disposable income then than I have now!! And you're right... Terry was the vendor. The bike was like new except for a couple of flat-spots in the Akront rear rim.That's amazing, you rode that bike!! Was it you that flat-spotted the rim!?!?!!  I kept the Frontera for several years, it was very fast and just did everything so well. 

Eventually I sold it and bought this.... I turned up at a VPMSC club enduro at Noojee and Clause Mueller, the benevolent dictator of the club, fell  about laughing... But it was a great bike too...

You can tell it's a rainy day and I haven't got much work to do... Cheers, Simon J.

Ian, Spanish drum brakes....you would have paused at the top of any big hills with the Bultaco riders for an impromptu prayer meeting before bravely heading down the other side... My Matador had right side shifting,( your Pioneer too??),I would always forget which side the brake was on but the motto was, "If in doubt, stomp on everything!" Cheers, Simon J.

simonj wrote:
Simon,
the Ossa had the gearlever on the left like the jap bikes. I rode quite a few Bultacos with the gear lever on the right. Made for some very interesting excursions into the scenery.

Ian Robinson wrote:

Haha Both of my brother's had Ossa's you are right Ian, get anywhere near water & they end up with no brakes, other then that they were a great bike.   

I'm loving this!

More, more. 

simonj wrote:
No mate, I didn't ride fast enough to put flat spots in rims  Terry was one of the regulars that rode with my brothers & myself, in those days we rode every weekend, Terry used to push that bike along pretty good, so i reckon he's the one that put the flat spots in there himself  

This story goes back to when I was 13/14 years old.

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My brother John had one of these bikes, a 250cc Puch made in Austra, they were a split single, two rods on one crank, they were easy to pinch, the key was in the top of the head light, the key was like a pin with a couple of groves in it, I think the groves were only there to keep it from falling out, anyway while my brother was at work with my old man I was sitting on his bike & thinking about the shape of the key, I thought if I pushed a match down there it might do the same thing as the key would do, so inside I went & got a match pushed it in the hole, it worked the light came on, all I had to do is keep it in there, so I jumbled the match in there with the spring loaded plastic cover that covered the key hole when the key was out, I gave it a kick it started, hell I quickly pulled the match out, so now I know how to get it going & it's been on my mind for a while, so one day I got enough Dutch carriage & take it for a spin, that was my first ride on a real bike other then when my brother thought me to ride his vespa scooter, it's his fault for teaching me to ride  I took it for a ride a few times like every time I had the chance  that was when we lived in Ararat, my brother wanted to buy a new bike, that was around the time when the Honda's came on the market, he was keen to buy a 250cc Honda super sport, he gave it a lot of thought & in the end he wasn't game to buy an unproven jap bike, so he ended up buying another 250cc Puch from Stan the scooter man in Elizabeth street city, I'm now 15 years old & we had mover to Mulwala nsw, I used to take the Puch for an outing every chance I got, one day my brother was out riding & the local copper pulled him over & said to him.....You're a funny bloke..... my brother asked why is that, the copper said, one day I see you out on the road & you give me a wave & then are times I see you & you ignore me,  before my brother could say anything, the copper said if it's ya younger brother riding ya bike tell him not to  that's when he found out I was having some fun on his bike

Ken, Frankie, Ian and others - any photos out on the trail?
Like Frankie I could't quite wait until I had a licence... In about 1974 I did my first enduro at Woods Point on my older brother's Ossa 250 Six Day... It was a fairly unofficial affair, luckily no-one asked to see my licence, I was only about 15 years old...That's me on the far side with the black full face helmet...Cheers, Simon J.

simonj wrote: I think I have a couple of photo's some where, if I find them I won't be able to post them up, all this posting of pic's on here goes over my head  by the looks of the gear everybody is wearing it sure looks like as you said a unofficial affair