Britten Bikes

[Kittyhawk]

Thanks guys! those pics a way cool. You'd think that there'd be some of the design put into the current bikes we have or the later designs,

wonder how fast that new bike goes that runs on water (I missed the episode) but imagine how many more of us there'd be on the road!

[FROSTY:Me]

Nobodys gonna believe me but i've ridden a Brittan.Um ok it was only 200m at wanganui --and It was the denco brittain not "the "brittain --but hey

[Kickaha]

I have a photo somewhere of a red really bulbous bike he did which was composite. a v twin powered by two denco 500cc speedway motors with custom cases and crank if I remember right... telescopic forks too I think. its soooo long ago now but the photo was taken in the pits at Ruapuna. maybe that Sound of Thunder Hugh Anderson was at or around that time?

Denco made a complete V Twin motor which was what they used,the red bikes had a very bad beating with a ugly stick before they got to the track

[betti]

spoke to the guys at Britten when down in chch buyin my ktm, one of the most entertainin 45 minutes of me life!.
I highly recommend it to anybody if you are down that way, they have no.1 and the fully enclosed prototype in the place , not to mention loads of photos, memorabilia etc.
The guys there reckoned they were tryin to get a partner to build road going versions, but there was no interest!!! can you believe that???.
A totally inspiring visit, makes ya want to go and bury yerself in yer shed with the spanners , and best of all its free

[Kittyhawk]

No interest my ass!!! Look at all of us we'd give it a go. Maybe we should do like the robot wars, or that american tv programme on Prime where you take a car or truck and transform it into something completely different.

Imagine the fun we could have!!

[quickbuck]

There's a thought. Give Jesse James at West Coast Choppers a call, and see if he will bank roll the opperation. As for touching the Britten, I got to push start one of the early ones at Ruapuna. Never riden one, watched them up close lots though. Those were the days....

[R1madness]

Better work on your photoshop technic before you're ready to haddle the real thing, Madness

Umm actually its not photo shopped. It was sittin in my garage next to my R1 for a couple of days. Your are half right though. I did not own it just had access to it for a while Its who you know that gets ya lovely little pleasures in life.

[T.W.R]

i used to deliver to john britten when i was doing after school work as a teenager saw the denco powered 1 when it was being concieved and when the house was being built. got some pics from the 94' isle of man and pearoa streetraces for you though.

[metric]

I've been lucky enough to meet 2 of the bikes in the flesh, Te Papa and on a tour thing they did.
What im still wondering is why are the top bike manufactures(sp?) not taking the positive aspects of the britten bike incorperating them into their bikes? like eliminating the dead spot of air infront of the rear wheel and having the air run 'through' the bike instead of around it?
Probably all to do with patent's and copyrights i guess??

ya... got to see the one in Te Papa a few years ago.

my humble question is:

what is it that makes these beasties so revolutionary? I'm going to do a bit of research online now to see what I can dig up but if anyone could sum it up that'd be awesome

[T.W.R]

full carbon fibre body/frame, fully computerised management system the whole works dude, they were years ahead of their time ( John Britten was a modern genius, the greatest lost to New Zealand Motorcycle engineering) pushed the boundarys further than anyone had ever been! and just think back then $140000 brought you one mmm!

[metric]

a bit of concise info here

might go to the library at some stage and see if they have his book dare to dream

I wonder if he ever met Burt Munro

[hXc]

This guy in Nelson built his own!
Based on a Honda Bros.
I think the Britten factory along with Casbolts (as they were quite close) should build a replica kit around a VTR1000, just the body work and some sort of exhaust system would build a pretty good replica, dont ya think?

The pipe at the back...Is it connected to anything? Or is it there for show?

[Ivan]

Shit that homemade one roules I should make my own body work like that and set it up in a RG50 for at buckets Imagine it then if that works do the fairings to a Honda RS125 even better still

[NordieBoy]

Well now we have a member who has raced them.
So Shaun, spill the details.

[Goblin]

Stroud McEwan Briggs Poole.

Wonder what these riders are up to these days? Anybody here know?

I got to see Brittens racing at Manfeild, Paeroa and Bay Park at The Mt. There was one at the Mobil in Cambridge once and there was a few drops of oil under it so I wiped it up and rubbed it into my leathers....