The annals of music history are littered with bands whose third albums didn’t quite manage the success of their debut and sophomore offerings. That trend was at the forefront of Rick Hannah’s mind when he set out to build his third Kawasaki W650 desert sled.
A South African ex-pat currently living in the UK, Rick works in the tech industry—but he’s a petrolhead at heart. Working under the cheeky nickname of Dirty Dick’s Motos, he burst onto our pages a few years ago with a picture-perfect Kawasaki W650 scrambler in the style of vintage British desert sleds. He followed it up with a similarly styled W650 a year later, leaving him with more than enough data to build a third.
Rick’s biggest challenge was figuring out how to repeat his success, without getting carried away.…