{"id":97513,"date":"2019-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre.boxrepsol.com\/uncategorized\/the-history-of-montesa-constructor-of-the-bike-used-by-toni-bou-and-takahisa-fujinami\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:32:24","slug":"the-history-of-montesa-constructor-of-the-bike-used-by-toni-bou-and-takahisa-fujinami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boxrepsol.com\/en\/trial-en\/the-history-of-montesa-constructor-of-the-bike-used-by-toni-bou-and-takahisa-fujinami\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of Montesa, constructor of the bike used by Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montesa started out as a small workshop in the province of Barcelona<\/strong>. Its creator was Pedro Permanyer Puigjaner, who was born in Barcelona in 1911 and loved mechanics. After the Spanish Civil War, he founded the company Construcciones mec\u00e1nicas<\/em>, which installed gasifiers in lorries and cars. <\/p>\n

Gasifiers<\/a> were a kind of low-cost gas fuel generator that made up for the shortage of petrol in Spain after the war. Ingenuity used to meet people’s needs in times of scarcity was always an added value in Permanyer\u2019s projects.<\/p>\n

In 1944, Spain began to recover its trade activity after one of the darkest periods in its history. People needed inexpensive forms of transport and, like S\u014dichir\u014d Honda in Japan, Permanyer decided to create engines for bicycles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After learning about Permanyer\u2019s idea and seeing the opportunity to grow this into a much larger business, Francisco Bult\u00f3 agreed to manufacture motorbikes with him. This was no easy task given the shortage of materials at the time, so they based their models on another bike already on the market: the Motob\u00e9cane B1V2. <\/p>\n

This way, they used a number parts from that bike while the rest were manufactured in Barcelona. That is how the first prototype was made. It would later lead to the A-45 in 1945, the first Montesa model<\/strong>: a 98cc bike with a single-cylinder two stroke engine and a three-speed, manual gearbox.<\/p>\n

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