“Astro” by XTR Pepo

First of all: happy new year to everybody! We’re still working on the editor’s choice with the best customs of 2017, but I already got the first build for 2018 in my mailbox from our buddy XTR Pepo. Most readers know that Pepo isn’t afraid to take a rare bike as a base for this creations. And rare it is: it’s based on a Bultaco Lobito 125. Never heard of Bultaco? I think a lot of us didn’t. Bultaco was a small Spanish manufacturer of two-stroke motorcycles from 1958 to 1983. The brand had several successes in road racing, but later, their off-road machines became more successful. The brand resurrected back in 2015 with a newly developed electrical drive train which they use for (really fast) electric bicycles.

Pepo was lucky to find a Bultaco Lobito 125 and turned it into a real XTR bike. I’m sure that some other blog is working on a great story right now (we just got the pics and specs), but here are the mods:

• Modified frame
• Yamaha SR 250 swingarm
• Hagon rear shocks
• Honda Hornet 600 front fork (I guess from this bike)
• Derbi Senda Supermotard front Wheel
• Bultaco Lobito rear hub with Derbi Senda Supermotard rim
• LSL conical handlebar
• Gonelli quick open gas throttle
• Gonelli natural rubber grips
• Gonelli levers
• Bultaco Mercurio 155 (1963) fuel tank
• XTR seat and upholstery
• XTR number plates
• XTR fork protector
• Ducati footpegs.
• Bultaco Matador MK10 (1979) 350 cc blueprinted engine
• Regina chain
• Bing Carburetor
• XTR air filter
• Super Mario handmade race exhaust
• Pintumoto painting
• Pictures: Cesar Godoy