YouTube Tuesday: World’s Greatest MC #6
John Britten was a revolutionary motorcycle designer whose home-brewed machine won international acclaim with its stunning design and performance.
Ridden by Aucklander Andrew Stroud, the V1000 dominated the 1992 Daytona Supertwins race. Right from the starting grid it exploded to the front. In the second to last lap an electrical fault (a cross-wired battery) forced Stroud to pull out, frustratingly allowing Pascal Picotte to pass on his Fast by Ferracci Ducati.
Cycle World proclaimed simply: Stunner. Britten V1000. After the race, the designer of the bike that was almost entirely self-designed and built was heard to wryly remark: “[It] serves me right for using a Ducati part”.
He threw away the rulebook and built the world’s fastest bike in his spare time. The V1000 bears its edge DNA on its carbon-fibre skin: the Southern Cross is tattooed into the bold metallic blue, and the B of Britten’s signature is said to have been designed to resemble a kiwi … The prototype engine was baked in a backyard kiln and the shell modelled with No. 8 fencing wire and a glue gun.
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