Where do you think he would be today?

A short clip I came across while stumbling around on the internet of John Britten's work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM_aNwaodd4

The rest of his Bio is equally fascinating.

I remember a piece Motorcyclist did on him after his bike broke down from the lead at Daytona. He was a really interesting guy who managed to find some secret to folding time or something... how else could he do all the the things he did? Designing your own faucets and cupboard handles seems time consuming enough that I wouldn't really have all that much left over for beating Ducati.

I've offten wonderd that same question.. I had a picture of him at Dayton on my bedroom wall for years.... Next time i go to "home" i need to see if its still there.

Imagine if we could somehow combine the DNA of John Britten and Erik Buell...

John Britten documentaries:

One Man's Dream - the Britten Bike Story (90 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq6OPeYbDfY

Britten: Backyard Visionary (NZ television, approximately 45 minutes. It's posted in seven sections) http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/britten-backyard-visionary-1993

I remember seeing a Britten on display at the Art of the Motorcycle exhibition in Chicago a few years back, what a beautiful motorcycle.

I saw (and heard) one being ridden in anger at the WERA Grand National Finals at Road Atlanta in 93 or so. It may be the one that's in the Barber Museum. Anyway - it was being ridden by Cycle World writer and fast guy 250 GP bike rider Nick Ienatsch. The crew tending to the bike spent a day playing with it trying to get it to run. A crowd would gather every time they'd fire up the starter - a big Briggs and Stratton driving a slick kart tire.

When the bike lit off the first time I was standing next to a guy who was Dale Quarterly's crew chief - a guy who worked on one of the most badass sounding motorcycles I've ever heard - and I noticed we both had visible goosebumps.

The Britten would wheelie all the way down the hill of Road A's legendary and long gone "Gravity Cavity". One of the most awesome mechanized things I've ever seen along with a TZ750 and an Avro Vulcan w/ the afterburners on.