John Britten

lil red rocket pilot · Nov 28, 2012

Don't know if this has already been posted but I found it fascinating.

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/britten-backyard-visionary-1993

Dr No · Nov 28, 2012

If you can, dig up a copy of Hanna's biography of the man. Well worth it.

JohnnyKnockdown · Nov 28, 2012

lil red rocket pilot said:
Don't know if this has already been posted but I found it fascinating.

http://www.nzonscree...-visionary-1993

That was great. All that ingenuity and he was taken by one of the more curable cancers. The Irony

Thanks Lil Red. Great stuff

Jumkie · Nov 28, 2012

I have said it before, this man was an untapped rarity of a genius among geniuses. Sadly, taken way too soon.

Dr No · Nov 28, 2012

Jumkie said:
I have said it before, this man was an untapped rarity of a genius among geniuses. Sadly, taken way too soon.

I have a blockmounted poster of the V1000 in my front room (Sadly, the pink and blue one, not the awesome black and yellow CR&S), I had a sit on one at PI (I think) and I hassled and hassled my local tech bookstore to get the above biography in. I'm a fan.

That said, like all geniuses, he had his blind spots, mainly the front end of the V1000, which under cold scrutiny didn't work as well as forks. But what's a genius without flaws and what's a Britten V1000 without it's CF girders?

Pigeon · Feb 17, 2013

http://youtu.be/m9N1gfLQ--k

Britten bike story full film 90 mins

Mick D · Feb 18, 2013

Very cool documentary from the day... so positive about the future, so sad...

BJ.C · Feb 25, 2013

The wife's cousin is the one on the right. He was the mechanical engineering side of the Britten equation.

He brought the original Britten Aero-D-Zero prototype to Manfield Raceway to a BOTT event - it was his SD Darmah that was hacked around to make the ADZ. I also had a Darmah, but an SSD, so we wuz tight

We swapped - he on my Agostini Guzzi LMIII and me on his SD Darmah-powered weird winged thing...

Manfield can be god-awful windy and the dustbin faired Guzzi was a handful on the corner before the main straight, but the ADZ was a complete nightmare. I lasted two laps and handed it back.

Little did we know at the time... I would have ridden it all day with hindsight

Mick D · Apr 15, 2016

Riding the Britten in 1994...

Click to read more & see the cool photos:

SR ARCHIVE: WE RIDE THE BRITTEN V1000

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the April, 1995 issue of Sport Rider magazine.

The scene: Daytona 1994. The event: AHRMA Battle of the Twins. The memory: I exited the international horseshoe on the ultrafast factory Bimota Tesi, tucked in and wound out, riding like the veritable wind at gale force. Suddenly a blue-and-pink streak flashed past on the rear wheel: Andrew Stroud on the Britten V1000, leaving me and the rest of the pack in its roaring wake on the way to a complete and resounding Daytona victory. I’d never seen anything like it—this New Zealand–made, handcrafted work of racing art—and I found myself staring and wishing. At the 1994 WERA Grand National Final my wish came true, and I came butt to seat with the V1000.

yamfan · Apr 15, 2016

Didn't the bike break down whilst leading a TT race too. The faulty part being a 50 pence resistor or something really annoying?

Dr No · Apr 23, 2016

yamfan said:
Didn't the bike break down whilst leading a TT race too. The faulty part being a 50 pence resistor or something really annoying?

That was Daytona. Where Stroud was toying with Picotte's Ducati until his bike ran out of leccy juice. Rectifier had been wired-in incorrectly.

At the 94? TT it dropped a cambelt in practice, as well as shorting its plugs (frequent V1000 problem in damp conditions). It shorted out again in the TTF1 race and lunched its gearbox in the Senior TT. That was the TT that Mark Farmer crashed and died on the Black CR&S bike.

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