In 2016 Retrotrials visited Serge Bacou at his beautiful stone , anti modern house in the south of France. It all happened by chance really. I was travelling within a 100 or so miles and was asked if i could collect a few motorcycles for a Trial enthusiast in the UK. I said yes and the rest is history and recorded here.
From the outside looking in , Serge these days lives an enviable life in the warm sun , not so far from the Spanish border. His stone house is something that he converted himself from a stone barn and is ample and elegant simplicity in a way that only the French seem to have mastered.
Serge's house is a stone converted barn with very very ceilings and bare stone internal walls. There are 2 rooms on the ground floor . One of these rooms has a huge open fireplace and also a full length timber bar . The house is glass fronted on the garden side , so the view out is very nice onto this garden you can see below. Serge lives immediately next door to his girlfriend in another part of the attached barn he converted.They have their own space and this works.
Serges' house holds surprises . You will see this.
From the outside looking in , Serge these days lives an enviable life in the warm sun , not so far from the Spanish border. His stone house is something that he converted himself from a stone barn and is ample and elegant simplicity in a way that only the French seem to have mastered.
Serge's house is a stone converted barn with very very ceilings and bare stone internal walls. There are 2 rooms on the ground floor . One of these rooms has a huge open fireplace and also a full length timber bar . The house is glass fronted on the garden side , so the view out is very nice onto this garden you can see below. Serge lives immediately next door to his girlfriend in another part of the attached barn he converted.They have their own space and this works.
Serges' house holds surprises . You will see this.
On the ground floor of Serge's house behind the living room , is the 2nd room. Here you start to get a flavour of what Serge does with his time these days. Serge is a collector of antique motorcycle and car parts. Serge buys a lot ...and occasionally sells things. Everything that you will see on these pages is something that Serge will sell but ironically he's not really interested in trying to sell. I did ask Serge whether he wanted me to place his contact details on this report and he said that he would rather i did not , as he tries to only sell to people he knows and this does well for him.
Serge has boxes and boxes of parts. He loves being surrounded in these things. They are part of who he is . Without them , he tells me ....he wouldn't be Serge.
Serge has thousands of Bultaco and Montesa parts + parts for all sorts.
Oh ...Oh ...This is just a taster of the much cooler things that are coming.
Are these special Yamaha Xt spares from his Yamaha days ?