Britten

Ienatsch calls it ...the neatest bike I've ever ridden. Anybody here ridden a Britten? How about a two stroke 500?? Your thoughts or opinions?

http://www.britten.co.nz/

I went to the Barber Motorsports museum this past week and they had a britten there. Cool to see in person, it was down in one of the shops with its clothes off.

In 1984, my second year of club roadracing, I was riding my RZ350 at Firebird. Some guy showed up one weekend on a late-70's Suzuki RG500 GP bike. Steel tube frame, spoked wheels, square-4 engine, kind of like Barry Sheene's old bikes.

In practice, this guy came by me exiting the chicane on the front straight, and that thing looked like a friggin' BULLET, literally shooting away from me in a cloud of blue smoke.

It looked so small and compact, and damn, was it fast.

I don't know who the guy was, but I don't think he was anyone famous. He just managed to get ahold of that bike somehow. I think he had problems with the bike that weekend, though. I don't remember him actually running the races.

That's been my only experience with a real GP bike. I wish I could get a chance to ride one some day, but it's not looking good at this point...

Cool bike. Care to give us a description? It's history? What is it like to ride?