What the heck is this?

evol02 · Post by **evol02** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:36 pm

It is AWESOME....

johnakay · Post by **johnakay** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:53 am

good greif what a contraption

tz375 · Post by **tz375** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:42 am

Sweet. Is that a Difazio hub center steering conversion? I don't recognize the bodywork but it looks like a later version of "Nessie" and IIRC the Difazios had a T500 prototype.

Nice find. Where is the bike now?

With a bit of a clean up of the rear end styling and the mufflers, it could look really sharp.

evol02 · Post by **evol02** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:21 am

sorry, I should have posted info when I posted the picture.

I found this image in the Cafe Racers thread of the Old's Cool forum of ADVRider. I thought the bike was AMAZING, and I wanted to know more about it, so I posted it up here.

Craig380 · Post by **Craig380** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:32 am

yes, it's almost certainly a Jack Difazio with some custom bodywork.

I can just make out a UK-style registration plate.

However, I can't see any calipers on the front disks

scartail123 · Post by **scartail123** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:33 pm

That's beautiful!

Zunspec4 · Post by **Zunspec4** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:33 am

Hi all,

Difazio's are only 10 miles away from me, located in Frome, Somerset. I used to know the guy who actually built the Difazio Hub-centre steerers a chap by the name of Trevor Burrage (Sp?) R.I.P. I did a couple of club racers on a bike built by Trev which utilised a Glass Fibre monocouque frame and you can guess what colour the gel coat was as it was nick-named the "Flying Banana". The exact same colour of this special, maybe Trev liberated the excess supplies after building this one

.

He was part of a small team that developed and built the production moulds for the Marcos kit car and he really knew his way around Glass Fibre. The style of this special is very similar to the Flying Banana although it used conventional ex-TZ250 forks etc. Shame I have no photos.

Cheers Zunspec

mick 63 · Post by **mick 63** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 5:12 am

Here's another one i saw at Mallory Park last weekend @ The festival of a 1000 bikes,

think its a different one as this one has expansion chambers on

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cheers Mick

evol02 · Post by **evol02** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:48 pm

Thanks for the image and the additional information, a little piece of history that I had no idea about!

rngdng · Post by **rngdng** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:36 pm

I saw a DiFazio GT750 with sidecar at Barber Motorsports one year. The Barber gang bought it from the owner on the spot! It hasn't made it into the museum yet, though.

Lane

jbswear · Post by **jbswear** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:30 pm

All I can say is YUCK. That's a gawdawful looking bit of fiber glass.

YMMV!