I’d by no means heard of the Britten bike till I moved to New Zealand in 1997. But in the motorsport-mad Land of The lengthy White Cloud, John Britten is a family call—and rightly so. His V1000 has been described as ‘the best motorcycle ever built’, because Britten effectively constructed it in his very own backyard, and it trumped the works machines on the racetracks.
Designed in 1991, the Britten had a carbon fiber frameless chassis and carbon fiber wheels. The front suspension turned into an adjustable double wishbone girder-kind, and the 999 cc V-twin put out over 160 bhp. (As an apart, this changed into one of the first race bikes to apply data logging.)
In 1992 the Britten V1000 received the Dutch round of the battle of The Twins, and in 1994 the Daytona spherical. In among those victories, the V1000 smashed four motorbike world speed facts: the standing begin sector mile, mile and kilometre, and the flying mile at 302kph.
Tragically, simply because the motorsport world realised there has been a giant-killer at the scene, John Britten succumbed to most cancers. He died in 1995—leaving us to marvel what might have been if he’d carried on growing the V1000.
The documentary One guy’s Dream: The Britten motorbike story has simply been remastered and re-launched, with additional, in no way seen earlier than pictures. www.brittendvd.co.nz
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