Here is another Britten we saw at Te Papa in Wellington
Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
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Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
I'm travelling around the Shakey Isles at the moment and during our travels we heard about a museum displaying ""Motorcycles Unleashed" celebrating 100 years of motorcycle competition" so we called in to have a look, there was a good variety of (Kiwi) racing machines some very exotic ... From a hand built 500cc GP bike that was finished just as the Moto GP changed to 1000cc 4 strokes, to one of the 4 replica Burt Munro Indians built for the film (built by the Britten Motorcycle company!) for now I just thought I'd put these up of the Britten bikes from early on to the "Latest model"
Here is another Britten we saw at Te Papa in Wellington
Here is another Britten we saw at Te Papa in Wellington
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Re: Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
I am a huge Britten fan.... RIP John 
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Oh, PS, I sat on a Britten (It was being displayed at Auckland War Memorial Museum and I was doing the IT work there.... dont tell anyone!)
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Re: Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
There's one hanging up in the Te Papa museum in Wellington, I'm wondering if that was one of those in the pics (it looked like the last one).
Late edit> Just read the caption attached to the pic, why yes it was
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Late edit> Just read the caption attached to the pic, why yes it was
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Re: Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
To be honest, I've never seen the appeal. He made some of the ugliest bikes on the planet.Stereo wrote:I am a huge Britten fan....
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Re: Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
You wont get it until you see the britten documentary.... He was revolutionary... he built a bike from scratch (yes his origional design used a Ducati engine, but he ended up making his own engine) using only his wits and his own ideas....aardvark wrote:To be honest, I've never seen the appeal. He made some of the ugliest bikes on the planet.Stereo wrote:I am a huge Britten fan....
He made a home made bike (and in the process bankrupted himself) that won AMA superbike races.... Would have won Isle of Man races (if the rider hadnt died) and outperformed (as in outbraked, out rode, out accelerated) all of the factory bikes in the races he entered...
It is a legendary bike... and it is not very photogenic... you have to see a real one to understand I guess...
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Re: Not a Kwaka but one helluva bike!
I remember seeing a movie that I think was about that guy. He built a futuristic bike with his brother and it was all silver looking and aero dynamic and at the end of the movie the guy wins the race and puts his hands in the air to celebrate and looses control of the bike crashing into the barrier exploding and dieing and thats how the movie ends... was weird... does any one remember that?