Badass Factory

Here are some photos from my camping spot in Dordogne...

I'm sure many of you know this bike but I'd only ever seen it in a magazine. In the flesh it is just stunning....

18cm tire2tire...

Went to Paris bikes shops quarter near the Champs Élysées this afternoon to see the XSR GP at the Yamaha dealer. Then in a sea of grey scooters and trail stuff… THIS !...

The bike is 16 cm long wheel to wheel...

To me, anything after 2010 is a new bike. Mid-90's is where is creeps into old bike territory for me....

Does anyone have an idea to which model it could belong to?...

Elspeth Beard in 1984, shortly after becoming the first English woman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle...

It's a 1954 Hatz air cooled single cylinder 502 cc diesel engine mounted in a Suzuki DR 800 frame using a golf cart diff as to lower the drive ratio. Work in progress. Thanks....