“Like a motorcycle, 50 years of motorcycling in Esplugues” is the title of the exposition organized by the Museum Can Tinturé with the collaboration of Moto Club Esplugues that counts with the support of the Esplugues Town Council and in addition of the Barcelona Deputation and the net of local museums.

Montesa Impala picture:

The Barcelonesse population of Esplugues of Llobregat has been very linked to the motorcycling during the whole XXth century. We don’t have to forget that the Montesa motorcycles factory was in this municipality since 1963 to 2002, year in the one that they transferred the factory to Santa Perpetua of the Mogoda.

Nowadays there is a neighborhood of the population that carries that same name, “Montesa” and we may say that a great part of the “Montesa” motorcycles that still circulate were manufactured in the Esplugues factory of Llobregat.

Besides, during many years the city had motocross races in the Finestrelles circuit and speed races in the Fontsanta neighborhood during a lot of years.

In the exposition we will make a little walk through the historic memory of the motorcycling in the city. We will be able to see closely into the 4 M 0002 Montesa the first that was commercialized and the most ancient that is preserved. We can also see a Montesa Cappra VE 414 Official, the prototype with the one that Michel Combes the french pilot from the Montesa drove.

We will be able see a OSSA ( prepared to play motoball ), a Bultaco and a mini motorcycle in addition to the diverse motorcycling material and graphic documents from the fifties of the motorcycling in Esplugues.

The exposition will be open until March 16, 2008 and you can visit it from Tuesday to Sundays from 10 to 14pm. Wednesday and Saturdays from 16,30 to 20 hrs. On Saturdays the entrance is free.