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The Talbott Motorcycle Museum has officially closed. Thanks for your support and feel free to follow this site for on-line Auction details!! Robb

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Got to catch up over breakfast with Rob this morning. He is a stud in the motorcycle world-a rider, collector, enthusiast, and the former owner of the Talbott Motorcycle Museum in Carmel. I met him a few years back while doing a solo ride down to Born Free. I stopped by his museum to check it out, and he gave me a tour, told me stories from the road, and has cheered me on in my passion for riding ever since. At 79 years old, he’s still on two wheels! You’re the man, @mototalbott. 🏍️👊👌

#ridemotorcycleshavefun #mototalbottcollection

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I was recently interviewed by Sabrina Marandola from the CBC radio show Let’s Go. We talked about the origins of #themotorcycleportraits as well as the show in Montreal. It’s about 10 min.

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Today on BikeBound.com: 1963 Bultaco Sherpa S Flat Tracker built by AMA Hall-of-Famer Erv Kanemoto, who was the tuning force behind two national and six world road racing titles. Erv worked with Gary Nixon, @fastfreddiespencer, Eddie Lawson, @therealwaynegardner, and more.

Note the unique “donut” in the front downtube, which Erv added to accommodate the center-port exhaust of the ’66 Bultaco Metisse 250 engine.

Robb Talbott of @mototalbott discovered the bike in the back of a barn after 50 years, and Robbie Cadwallader — who’d lined up against the bike in th 1960s — restored it to its former glory.

Crossing the Mecum auction block in May!

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#bultaco #2t #2stroke #tracker #flattracker

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It’s alive! This 1974 MZ ETS 250 G/5 ISDT had 17 miles on the fork-mounted speedo, and had been sitting in the Talbott Moto Museum for years. Luckily the main seals seem fine as in the first ten feet of riding it lofted the front wheel! As seen in the first vid - oops! Will I get used to two-strokes again?

I love the look and the history of MZ’s ISDT bikes: they’re hand-built in the factory race department, and not many were built. This is not a ‘replica’, it’s a factory race bike, and Werner Selevsky won the ISDT outright SIX times using these bikes. They sold what the factory raced. Yes, at 290lbs it’s a little heavier than a comparable MX racer of the period (eg Husqvarna), but lighter bikes fall apart in the ISDT (the ‘Olympics of Motorcycling’), and those other brands didn’t win six times in a row, did they?

From a Cycle World review in 1975, about the end of the MZ ISDT’s run (I think they started in ‘68): “ The machine appears dated, heavy and most likely slow. WRONG. Grab a handful with this one and you start going places in a big hurry. For a 250, the power is astounding. We drag raced the MZ against the 400 Yamaha Enduro we tested last month and they ran dead-even side by side. . .all the way into high gear. Hard to believe? We did it over and over again to convince ourselves. In fact, the MZ often had the edge. Shocking.”

MZ’s ISDT bikes designed and built by the same team responsible for MZ’s devastating Grand Prix racers of the 1960s. That’s another story: Cold War intrigue and Walter Kaaden’s protogé smuggled to Japan to give Suzuki his tunjng secrets, which ultimately upended the World Championship series forever, and led to the two-stroke GP era of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Americans don’t know much about MZs, as few were sold here. The rest of the world knows them as dependable but quirkily styled East German two-strokes. I became a fan after buying a 1974 TS250 in London in 1988 (from Ian at Verralls when he was 19!), and clocking thousands of miles all the way to the Soviet border in a big round-Europe tour. I rebuilt the gearbox before leaving (second gear is weak) with help from Velocette guru Geoff Dodkin!

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The only down side of visiting Carmel Valley Village this holiday season? You probably won’t want to leave 🎁#palmspringsmeetsnapa

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✨ as of late ✨

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@kalinhart in @evvintagecollective / @3rdandbzaar always fab!
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The MotoTalbott Collection is now for sale at ClassicAvenue.com

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Bike Trip | Ep. 3 “Ride to @bornfreeshow”

I make my way down the coast! Hitting @mototalbott motorcycle museum in Carmel was the highlight of this leg of the trip! Rob was a stud and I hope to be killing it like him on two wheels at his age!

#motorcycletrip #adventure #ridemotorcycleshavefun #harleydavidson

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1969 Yamaha DT1 Enduro from the mototalbott collection now open for bidding at classicavenue.com

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