Orpheo Sincronia SA

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Ossa (Orpheo Sincronic Sociedad Anónima, OSSA for short) was a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer .

Company logo
Ossa 250 cc Grand Prix machine
OSSA MAR 250 1972

history

In the founding years after 1924, the company dealt with the production of film projectors and outboard motors under the direction of Manuel Giro . Eduardo Giro, son of Manuel Giro, launched in 1950 with the production of small two-stroke - motorcycles in his father's factory. In the late 1960s, Mick Andrews joined Ossa as a works driver and technical advisor. Eduardo Giro and Mick Andrews developed the MAR (Mick Andrews Replica), with which Mick won the Scottish six-day race. 1972 Andrews left the company and switched to competitor Yamaha . 1973 Ossa presented the Phantom, a motocross machine. At the end of the 1970s the economy in Spain stagnated, and Japanese motorcycle manufacturers had an increasing influence on the European market. Ossa did not survive the crisis and closed its doors in 1984.

Since 2009, production has been resuming in Girona under the name OSSA Factory and with the well-known logo. The first model of the new era is the Ossa TR 280i trial motorcycle .

Ossa merged with GasGas in 2014 . When GasGas was taken over by Torrot in 2015, Ossa was not taken over and was closed.

Models

Road machines

  • 1952: 125/2
  • 1953: 125/3
  • 1958: 150 commercial
  • 1964: 160 GT
  • 1969: 250 sports
  • 1979: 250 Copa
  • 1981: 250 Copa Formula 3
  • 1991: Urbe

Enduro

  • 1967: Enduro 230
  • 1969: Enduro 250
  • 1973: Enduro AE 73
  • 1974: Desert Phantom 250
  • 1975: Enduro 350
  • 1975: Super Pioneer 250
  • 1976: Super Pioneer 350
  • 1978: Desert TT
  • 1979: Desert Fuego
  • 1980: Desert 350
  • 2011: OSSA Enduro 280i / 300i

Motocross

  • 1974: Phantom 125 AS 74
  • 1975: Phantom 250 AS 75

Trial

  • 1967: Pluma 230
  • 1971: MAR 250
  • 1975: MAR 350
  • 1977: Verde
  • 1980: TR 80 350
  • 1984: Trial 303
  • 2011: TR280i

Trail

  • 1973: Explorer 250
  • 1976: Explorer 350
  • 1982: Tu y Yo 350
  • 2012: OSSA Explorer

literature

  • De Cet, Mirco: Ossa in: Illustrated Classic Motorcycles Encyclopedia . Eggolsheim: Dörflerverlag GmbH; ISBN 978-3-89555-421-6

Trivia

In the 1974 Spanish- Italian action comedy Zwei wie Pech und Schwefel with the Italian actors Terence Hill and Bud Spencer , Terence Hill can be seen on an OSSA 250 AE 73 Enduro .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CLASSIC MOTOCROSS IRON: 1971 OSSA 250 STILETTO. In: motocrossactionmag.com. March 27, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020 .