DIRTBAG

I FIRST spied Steve Doherty’s ‘Dirtbag’ a year ago, three weeks into the build. His goal was the 2018 Deus Ex Machina Bike Build-Off, but when word got out it had been postponed, he immediately stopped work on it to concentrate on something else (he is a prolific restorer). But there was enough of it there to see he was onto something.

Steve entered his first Deus BBO in 2015 with a 1975 Honda CB550 cafe racer that he built in five weeks from a chopper purchased cheaply at a swap meet. He was runner-up. He vowed to return the following year and win the Sydney-based event, which he did with ‘Mung Doot’, a radical marriage of a 1973 Suzuki GT250 and what was once a Honda CB250. Regular readers will recall we featured both#28.