Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante
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Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
When you visiting the area of Alicante, you must visit this museum and experience it all . Experience the heat of Spain , the food the drinks, the culture and the people who are so so so passionate about their motorcycles.
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Born 12/15/1946 in Benifato, a small town of Valle de Guadalest, Ricardo Fraces raised in front of a small blacksmith shop where small spent hours there, looking as bicycles, motorcycles, radios, clocks, were arranged as welded the broken pieces, and shotguns were repaired, ... Here begins his fondness for the world of workshops and machines.
With the short of age 13 and dared to drive a Vespa 125 2nd model, his father, this was in the 60s. At 18 Derbi Played with Gran Sport 74, but it was just a dream. At 19 he tried to buy a sports bike, the Ducati 125 Ducati 200 Sport or Elite but the precarious household economy had to settle for a Ducati 175 TS, shared with his brother.
A few years later, with his wife and brother founded the restaurant "Riu". With the first benefits of the business acquired a Montesa Enduro 360 H6 to enjoy the numerous forest roads in this mountainous area.
With the short of age 13 and dared to drive a Vespa 125 2nd model, his father, this was in the 60s. At 18 Derbi Played with Gran Sport 74, but it was just a dream. At 19 he tried to buy a sports bike, the Ducati 125 Ducati 200 Sport or Elite but the precarious household economy had to settle for a Ducati 175 TS, shared with his brother.
A few years later, with his wife and brother founded the restaurant "Riu". With the first benefits of the business acquired a Montesa Enduro 360 H6 to enjoy the numerous forest roads in this mountainous area.
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
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Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
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Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
Gradually became interested in the world of classic motorcycles and buy a Guzzi 65 and intends to restore it. This bike was well known among the Spanish fans and is usually one of the first restoring fans or collectors. For his love of restoring a Ducati Ducati 98 Sport
His hobby is growing and begins to move and look for Spanish motorcycles for the Levant. I used search and small workshops where desguazes forgotten somewhere motorcycles were. That became known and many people came to offer on bikes were no longer used and abandoned.
Begins to travel throughout Spain and attend trade fairs in the world of motor. The first one I attended was in Sils (Girona), which was followed by Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Alcaniz, Murcia, etc..
By its obligations in family businesses are forced to travel at night walking many miles in a single day. And so, his collection grew. All this thanks to his tenacity and effort because if not for true fans would not have been possible.
When acquiring a motorcycle, nothing but get home, the first thing I did was clean it with brush and petrol and see the parts that lacked it always tries are entirely original, so-that they can be carried restore friends and retired mechanics who shared also their illusion.
At present the collection is formed by Ricardo about 140 motorcycles and several cars, a work that would not have been possible without the support of his wife, his two children and his brother and family.
His hobby is growing and begins to move and look for Spanish motorcycles for the Levant. I used search and small workshops where desguazes forgotten somewhere motorcycles were. That became known and many people came to offer on bikes were no longer used and abandoned.
Begins to travel throughout Spain and attend trade fairs in the world of motor. The first one I attended was in Sils (Girona), which was followed by Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Alcaniz, Murcia, etc..
By its obligations in family businesses are forced to travel at night walking many miles in a single day. And so, his collection grew. All this thanks to his tenacity and effort because if not for true fans would not have been possible.
When acquiring a motorcycle, nothing but get home, the first thing I did was clean it with brush and petrol and see the parts that lacked it always tries are entirely original, so-that they can be carried restore friends and retired mechanics who shared also their illusion.
At present the collection is formed by Ricardo about 140 motorcycles and several cars, a work that would not have been possible without the support of his wife, his two children and his brother and family.
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
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Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
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Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com
Vall de Guadalest museum - Alicante www.retrotrials.com