The single, greatest motorcycle racing bike ever made. Nobody else could reinvent a motorcycle and ‘make it work,’ but Britten did. He is the greatest loss to motorcycling in history. He was the most brilliant engineer. RIP Mr Britten. Your work will live on in history.
There is nothing on the Britten V1000 that wasn't seen on other bikes that predated it. The composite monocoque frame was seen in The Plastic Fantastic that Robert Holden raced in NZ. The suspension damper placement was seen in various Elf endurance racers. The front suspension is a Norman Hossack/Tony Foale design
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Not sure if ''legend" is the right word to use here, but after JB had passed, legend has it that his wife had tried with many of the top manufacturers to keep this bike alive and in regular production. Sad to say that none of them would take it on. Truly a shame. They could have incorporated it into their own using the proprietary build process that was the Britten. Maybe the writing was on the wall and they were all afraid to build a championship motorcycle that would have bested their own!
An absolute legend and so far ahead of his time. A real shame to have lost him so early in life. Imagine what he could have achieved had he lived a full lifetime.
Mad respect for this guy. I'd love to go out a bring back rotary superbikes, and this guy really did that. Not bring back rotaries, but put his nose to the grindstone and build a motorcycle from scratch, build the bike he dreamed of and build it his way. That's fucking awesome in itself, and it's even better when you see it successes. What a legend. Also, with my recent ownership of a V-2 beast of a superbike, I really appreciate them so props for picking that engine out. The Britten's twin is easily one of the best sounding ones I've ever heard, if you can't tell I'm loving this thing.
Everyone states that john built the engine from the ground up but actually He stole the engine idea from denco in the 80s and improved on it, still tho the britten is an awesome piece of engineering
John Britten, a man before his time, his expertise and dedication to building what was a bike, in technical terms, years ahead of anything we had seen, should never be forgotten 👍🇮🇲
i got to see this bike at scrutineering when doing paperwork for it was different from every other race bike my first thoughts were its weird but a nice bit of engineering i could see how it worked and it was a pretty fast bike and 25 years on its never dated in fact its right up to date
I watch the video the other day guy Martin taking John Britton's bike for a ride for what guy Martin was at a loss for words and more nervous then we are used to seeing if that was possible hahaha
Back in 2015 I got to see 4 of them on the race track at the same time. It was here in the US at the Barbers Vintage motorcycle show. To see one is one thing but to hear 4 of them on a race track at the same time is another story.
The Britten was / is Brilliant. It's life's lost it didn't make it downstream to mainstream road bike availability but....I doubt it was ever destined to be anything other than a thoroughbred.
