I had the fortune of being on the track with Britten #10 at Daytona in 2000. The bike was being run by a team from Holland. They had it torn down to the cases at AMI. I really need to find and scan in those pics. What a wonderful racket as it went blasting by on the banking.
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That's more sexy than you riding Paris Hilton! Has anyone ever thought of reproducing these wonderful machines?
Yep, riding the Britten is probably healthier, although not as loud.
As far as recreations, I think that is a great question. There is a cottage industry in England for remaking old classic bikes. I will have to look through my old copies of Italian Bike, and English mag that was only in print for 10 issues. In one of them, they profile a couple of Brits that now make complete recreations of MV fours from the 60's. They are painstakingly authentic IIRC. Cost is extremely high of course. But if they can reverse engineer and produce something that obscure, why couldn't someone do the same with the Britten?
One thing I have always wondered about these bikes is if in the flesh the overall finsh of the bikes. Are they Honda MotoGP plastic model perfection, or just a little cobby?
One thing I have always wondered about these bikes is if in the flesh the overall finsh of the bikes. Are they Honda MotoGP plastic model perfection, or just a little cobby?
The one on display at the Barber Museum looks as good as anything that I've ever seen...
Yep, riding the Britten is probably healthier, although not as loud.
As far as recreations, I think that is a great question. There is a cottage industry in England for remaking old classic bikes. I will have to look through my old copies of Italian Bike, and English mag that was only in print for 10 issues. In one of them, they profile a couple of Brits that now make complete recreations of MV fours from the 60's. They are painstakingly authentic IIRC. Cost is extremely high of course. But if they can reverse engineer and produce something that obscure, why couldn't someone do the same with the Britten?
Cost is one reason. Another might be out of respect, as the family is still involved with refurbishing the existing ones.
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Cost is one reason. Another might be out of respect, as the family is still involved with refurbishing the existing ones.
Actually I was was thinking that there must be engineering drawings for most of the hard parts for the bike's design. Imagine another builder teaming with the Britten family to produce a series of recreations. Making another 25 bikes, for example, wouldn't really diminish the real V1000's, but allow well-heeled enthusiasts a chance to get their hands on one.
My guess is that most of the current owners of the 10 bikes would also buy a recreation for track use, if for nothing but keeping the real bike out of harm's way.
While it would also probably never happen, imagine a manufacturer teaming up with Britten family to produce a bike inspired by the original bikes, only with fiberglass bodywork and aluminum wheels and suspension arms. Designing an engine which passes emissions would be expensive but not impossible to keep the overall design architecture of the bike.
Well, now for the rest of the Denco and Aero shots, of interest when #1 was built the Aero was the parts bike and many of the existing pipework, headers etc were all cut and modified hence rebuilding it has become quite and act and requires some humour.
These bike builds really where a one-offs and if an existing part could be modified then it was hence making it difficult to piece back together the original Aero.
Below is a few shots of the engine and part body etc.
Has anyone ever thought of reproducing these wonderful machines?
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