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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

I am a huge Britten fan.... RIP John

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!)

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

Mick

Stereo wrote:I am a huge Britten fan....

To be honest, I've never seen the appeal. He made some of the ugliest bikes on the planet.

aardvark wrote:

Stereo wrote:I am a huge Britten fan....

To be honest, I've never seen the appeal. He made some of the ugliest bikes on the planet.

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....

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...

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?