Capo's Monster

[Mr Gazza]

Originally Posted by utopia

Ohh, now you've started something.

That was the idea.. Thanks for joining in.

I wonder if the Bazza connection is Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker? The two characters are from contemporary rival companies, Disney and Universal. The animators and voice actors would swap around anyway so it was a big family really.
I wonder if Barry's helmet design was also based on nose art? It didn't take me long to find Woody on a P-40 nose.





I remember Capo telling me how Barry would crash on his floor when he was younger and also sitting in Arbuckle's on one very snowy winter meet telling me about Barry driving him in the snow across the Fens, he wouldn't leave the handbrake alone and Capo was convinced they would end up spinning into a deep Fen drain.

I do remember the tabs for the harness and have considered something like that for mine one day as the harness is as ugly as sin. I hope you get the frame, it'll make a fabulous garden object d'art.

I don't know what the standard weight of an S4R is but it is an impressive weight loss, I think it about 6 stone! You're getting there with Stella though.

Not Stella's front end in the picture, but mine. We shuffled up to squeeze you in when you arrived.



They make a nice set of three. I remember steadying his bike as he swung his poor old legs over the saddle that day, he could barely walk, but as you say, set off like a scalded cat..

Yeah.. I miss him too.

I think I read somewhere Barry’s choice of design was more to do with Cockney rhyming slang !

Did capo have a carbon tank too? Bike looks stunning, was even better in the flesh.

[Mr Gazza]

Originally Posted by Moco1961

I think more to do with Cockney rhyming slang !

I wouldn't be surprised.

All the body work is Carbon including the tank.
The Ducati logo, the pinstripes and the dark part of the chequers are all masked before spraying to reveal the carbon weave.. A proper class act as you have to get down and look to see the weave.. That always impressed me.

[Dukedesmo]

Originally Posted by Mr Gazza

I remember steadying his bike as he swung his poor old legs over the saddle that day, he could barely walk, but as you say, set off like a scalded cat..

After having seen him struggling to walk, I was amazed at how well (fast) he could still ride.

Missed by all, that's for sure.

O/T but you can tell the Bell helmet is a genuine Sheene as it has the hole in the chinbar for that last, on the grid, pre-race smoke...