that was very interesting indeed nice to see that. but i wounder what is so different about this bike vs other big name made bikes other then the obvious that its just this dude who made it? seems like the front suspension is diff but thats about all i can spot out.
Well just the fact that he made the thing in his own tiny shop with only a few people helping is quite a feat, They beat DUCATI remember!
And also doing most of the important work himself, (like casting the engine block and heat treating it) after designing the thing entirely himself, that takes some real confidence and talent.
He was using carbon fiber to make things that conventional engineering said were not possible to make with carbon. Remember this is around the same time that people couldn't believe some company called McLaren was gonna build a supercar chassis from some threads of carbon with resin.
The front suspension uses a unique linkage setup, I cant remember if it was a Hosack design or more like duo-level or something, but even today it is rare for a race bike to try something unconventional. Definitely ballsy for a one-man show to use something that isn't 'tried & true'. Race bikes almost always use normal forks because there is so much information about how to set them up and tune for track conditions.
Also compare pictures of the Britten bike to modern (2001-now) GP bikes and you will notice that his rear swing-arm design is standard fare now on race bikes.
Guy was seriously a genius out-of-the-box thinker. People like him are what push sports like this forward.
