“… BOTH CARBURETTORS ARE BETWEEN THE BARRELS.” WITH LOTS of parts in the boxes in his shed, a history of building interesting motorcycles and retirement time on his hands, Sedge Deste has built another amazing machine. This time it’s a bit of a Frankenstein’s Monster, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, some parts used the way you’d expect, other times not. “Everything needed restoring,” Sedge told me when I visited to shoot the machine. “It was in rough condition, which is why so much of it was here, waiting for a project.” The most recent Deste machine featured in Retrobike was a Suzuki T500 two-stroke twin, something radically different to this bike, but the man likes his large capacity V-twins as well as his two-strokes. So…
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