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    Ollie's ODDJOBS

    Jun 05, 2021 4 minutes
    Photos by Ollie Hulme

    I had seen Scott Pearson’s bike a couple of times, usually from a distance or occasionally flashing past me, but I finally got a close look at it last summer. It rolled into the gathering in neutral. Soon a small group were fixing a clutch cable with pliers and a cook’s blowtorch, borrowed from a chef running a nacho stand. It was clearly a remarkble thing, this Suzuki T500 that uses Jack Difazio’s hub-centre steering system, so deserved further investigation.

    In his workshop in Frome during the 1950s, Jack Difazio decided that the telescopic fork didn’t work terribly well and decided

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