LAST LOOK
LOOKING BACK
30 YEARS SINCE THE BRITTEN
It came from New Zealand, was about as radical as you could get and looked like changing the world… but it didn’t, for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which was that its innovative engineer creator, John Britten, died young.
Back in 1991, Britten rolled would eventually write, “If I were head honcho at a motorcycle company in Japan, Germany, Italy or America, I’d march right down the hallway… and ask how it is that one man working in a shed in Christchurch could have out-teched my entire engineering department.” The magazine’s cover claimed the machine was “The World’s Most Advanced Motorcycle”.
