Answer is in the description and a couple of other comments. Basically that's what was on the VHS so the raw audio was lost (Bummer right?) It could probably be better music but I'd heard that track on the video since I was 5 so left it out out of nostalgia. Feel free to mute it, I won't be offended! ;)
I am from SA and was in NZ 14 years ago and met K Swantz and saw the BRITTEN being riden by Andrew Stroud at Phokekoe raceway. What a machine and what a great guy and rider Andrew is.
PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION BEFORE COMMENTING ON THE MUSIC PEOPLE! If you can defy gravity on a motorcycle you surely can manage the volume on your device! Thanks Thomas for uploading this. It brought back a lot of good memories. For all the folks with their panties in a wad... take a deep breath. Maybe it's time to put down your device and go for a ride?
The Brittens are just playing with the other bikes. The Guzzi guy was incredibly brave to stay with them while his bike looked like it was doing its best to throw him off.
Those Guzzi Daytonas were FAST and Paul was a short ass and VERY VERY fast... saw him race a few times back then. Around this circuit I'm not too surprised he could stay with them... at Bathurst it was a VERY different story... Stroudy loved the back wheel at Bathurst... he rode all the way up Mt Straight on the back wheel... showoff prick ;-)
muzza881 I had the same thought. Stroud is just waiting for the craziest possible place to pass and just doing it with ease. He doesn’t even look extended. The road holding and bump stability of that bike is on another level entirely. They weren’t even using the whole road.
Great footage. Thank you for posting . The Guzzie was all over the shop and hanging on by the skin of its teeth. Stroudy was just out there having fun... pulling wheelies and wanting Briggs to try and catch him. Absolutely loved it. John Britten. RIP.
Those Brittens were dialed for sure. As for the Guzzi, this race and footage helped sort out a lot of handling issues. By the 1997 season it was a heck of a lot better and won every single race it was entered into that year.
John Britten was waaaaay ahead of his time and the rest of the pack. As a kid, I had a huge poster of Strouds' v1000 on my wall....surrounded by Suzukis. The exhaust pipes, on their own, where a work of art....when I was at Assen, the sound blew me away. Only bike that even came close to the sound of a Britten, was the Ducati 916 SP with race pipes whilst engine braking downhill. Hell of a bike, hell of a designer :)
I visited the Te Papa museum here in NZ and the Britten was on display. I spent at least an hour looking over every inch of it, like someone who loves fine art. I wish I could've heard it run.
Yes I did too at Tepapa & there's one in motor cycle meca Invercargill which I was able to jump the ropes and photograph up close and personal 😊. Plus they have his early prototype and a unknown single that he was working on before his death. I remember when he came and raced the v1000 at Teratonga Raceway... when it went by the loud deep pitched drone sound of the high compression vee twin (something like 14.7:1) made a sound like no other and I remember being shocked that it would vibrate your chest as it flew past! This bike did hold the world record for the world's fastest acceleration production motorcycle from a standing start over 1000m.
I cried when I heard John Britten had passed away. I was privileged to watch one of the Brittens race at the Wanganui Cemetery Circuit in the late 1990's. I've always wondered what John would have done with some of the technology available these days.
He would have done great things, but the bikes would have suffered with an hypotetic passage to SBK. They were powerful, they had to deal with basically old bikes like the Guzzi Raceco in the BEARS championships, but i don't want to imagine that "frameless" layout if REALLY pushed to the limits in SBK.
Yes it did, the Guzzi did improve however and go on to win the Battle of the Twins championship in '95 and pretty much every race it entered until development ceased in 1997.
Loved watching Paul Lewis giving his usual 100% on that Guzzi. Tuned I believe by Amadeo Castellani, a really nice bloke who serviced my Le Mans mkl in the 80's at Moto Mecca, South London. Cheers mate.
Chris Mullan Yep. We can see that.... Lewis wobbling and steering as a hero, the Brittens just going on their pace... I never saw a Britten invited to a technical test... and that's ok, keep the legend alive! But, my credits for Lewis, and Cobby!
@@chrismullan6207 bollocks the goose passed him several times , ., what got the goose was just like in the states when a bad earth struck ,it happened to many bikes another was the great slippery sam T150
His dream lives on in all of us. And I am a grown man building things now. JB was a huge inspiration. And I have actually won expert class races riding bikes I have built.
Amazing race , John Britten and Sir Edd ,keeping the faith alive , makes me very proud to be Kiwi . I see both these bikes are racing in Christchurch next weekend 22nd Feb .
Just playing with the rest of the field ... Bike was decades ahead of all ... All the millions that the factory bike manufacturers spent and he built it in a garage by hand ... 🇳🇿
I am ok withe guzzi sound but the other two Brittens side by side toward the end is a tough ask. Actually the Guzzi at the end is quite easy too as it is by then silent.
GRUESOME TWOSOME Wow..Britten an engineer way beyond his time....thanks for the feeling.. 1000%..crowd would have been truly mystified...how does a garage machine perform this way..... KIWI INGENUITY...
Eurosport... I guess? I've mentioned a couple times but the comments keep rolling so; We had the VHS from around '95-'96 and with it was the music heard here. I tried a while back to get access to their archives but they cut off around 2005 I think. Just unfortunate. Honestly I have watched this countless times since I was 6 years old so I kept the music for my own nostalgic reasons and for that I won't apologise because whatever I put on, someone won't like it! ;)
@@pbysome since you are willing to make a comment from the dead i will too. i vote to keep what is probably the categorically most cringe worthy, corn ball, worst of the 90's even worse than the 80's music on the video track despite the natural and healthy impulse to reject it to hell, since it IS the original historical artifact and it is dangerous to forget how bad things can be if we take our good fortune for granted. if that music could have been produced under any circumstances and put against that video and the editor who made that choice was not immediately tortured to death live on television just to redeem all of humanity in the eyes of God himself then we all need to be reminded of such tragedy as the necular bomb, chernobyl, the spanish inquisition and the holocaust and place this horrible reminder in the museum next to it's piers as a painful but necessary reminder of even though people are capable of amazing compassion and beautiful forgiveness and creativity, we can also just be just as dark, terrible and ultimately tragic actions so as it makes it necessary to properly document at least the worst, if not all of history's greatest blunders. that editor should be sacked!......just in case........i wasn't clear back there.
Paul, I have seen some articles place the blame on that huge wheelie off the start. The Raceco has a shallower sump than most Guzzis and the oil filter is placed on the floor of the sump. A big wheelie like that can cause oil starvation.
@@GuzziHeroV50 The fatal flaw was the oil pickup at the front of the motor. Acceleration and wheelies caused oil to surge to the back of the engine starving the big ends of oil. The Raceco machine had a deeper sump than standard, a deep V-shape to try and keep oil over the pickup and help cooling. We tried baffles and plates, to scrape the crank webs as well to reduce drag, but it really needed a complete oil gallery redesign. Still, it didn't do too bad for a tractor.
@@mickhayes2178 Thanks for the correction. I was sort of right sort of wrong in that the wheelie did damage, but not why it did damage. I dream of owning one of these one day. But then I also want an MGS01, a Magni Australia and a Ghezzi-Brian. A lad can dream, eh?!
Those Brittens look like leggy supermodels compared to the stocky Guzzi. Very nice to see the suspensions soak up bumps very well. Definitely says handling!
Stroudy is just just playing with them , when he looks over his shoulder hes looking for his only compitition the other Britten. WHAT A BIKE WHAT A COMBINATION OF BIKE AND RIDER.
Brilliant Tom, haven't seen that before. Was watching from the embankment screaming my head off that day. Say hi to Ammo for me, haven't seen him for years, we built the first racing Guzzi, before the Cobby days. Mike.
A joy to watch. My brother was quite successful in battle of the twins first on a 600 Duke and then an 888. Regularly raced against Paul. I forgot how much i enjoyed watching Paul Lewis ride a motorcycle, Just beautiful. He really does ride the wheels off a bike.
@@smeghead61 and the motor is mounted the 'wrong' way and its gearbox wouldn't look out of place in a fiat. The guzzi and its rider did really well to even place when brittens are involved
Brittens clearly in a class by itself! That said, owned a MG V7 sport and loved how stable it felt. Choose a line, lean it over and the Guzzi would just stick with the plan. With power train spinning in one plane and wheels spinning in a plane perpendicular it felt like it had a gyroscopic stability to it that i haven't experienced on other lay outs. Had a few BMWs but didn't feel the same effect though they were the big pseudo dirt bikes with longer travel suspension which might have complicated the comparison. More likely, just full of shit!
This footage causes two regrets. The first one, the end of the Britten saga. Those bikes were monsters and they really would have deserved a serial production. The second one, the end of race bikes by Guzzi, reduced today to produce only revival cruisers and cafè racers for Harley-style fat asses.
bollocks the moto guzzi is doing ok ,.the V7 is a superb machine the V9 the worlds best kept secret ,,,,also there is much bullshit about britten ,he was a user ,used his mates big time ,,,,you never hear about the extra motor that he tried to stop his best mate getting ,.,.a court case sorted that out ,. ,. i went to school with the mechanic he used while in america
I think the music is fine. It's probably the smoothesth long mix of The Race I've ever heard, I must have been at about 10 minutes before I started thinking this seems longer than usual.
Holy shit my mums ex used to own this bike! What I wouldn't do to ride it, and to just hear it again. I am always in awe of this magnificent Daytona. The Raceco Daytona is a legend, just as the Britten, but that raceco, wow :) What a noise! Saw it at Cadwell too being put through it's paces, just WOW! What a sound :) LOVE IT!
Ohhhh!!! INCREÍBLE !!! La Guzzi era un misil pero las Britten parecía que iban de paseo intergaláctico ! Gracias por dejarme ver ESA LEYENDA en acciòn. John Britten ERA UN GENIO !!! 🇪🇸👍👍👍
Watching the Britten puts me in mind of watching the Ducatis run in the '70s. Not a wiggle to be found even when pushed to the limit. The Guzzi looked like it had a frame made of tempered pasta.
You have to remember this actual Guzzi was a production bike, i.e. originally a road bike, tuned and lightened in basically a shed by an enthusiast, Amadeo Castellani, with little or no sponsorship. Secondly, it's shaft drive, with all the handling issues that entails and the inability to alter the gearing for different circuits. For it to be up there giving two Brittens, designed and built as race bikes from the start (and hats off to John Britten), a run for their money is nothing short of remarkable and due also to the vary talented Paul Lewis.
I''m quite aware of the Guzzi's limitations, and why it was doing the little dances. Really, I was just expressing my admiration for Britten's brilliant bike. Also, remember that I mentioned another famously unflappable bike that WAS a production motorcycle. Truth is, is that most production AND racing motorcycles of the era had some scary shite handling characteristics.
@@scheusselmensch5713 Yamaha TRX 850 was pretty stable as well and when it lost control, most of the times it magically regained it. Gave mine to a friend to restore it and use it.
Beware of Kiwis with a B in their name and an interest in motorsport. Burt Munro, Britten and Bruce McLaren. They sure kicked some motor aristocracy butts
Guzzi looked like a handful (as usual). Britten was reliable, not like the old days in AMA Pro-Twins, where it would finish 1 out of 5 races. I even outlasted it once or twice back then...
I concur however the VHS we got from Eurosport at the time had that music on. I'd kinda' got used to hearing it so struggled to pick something else although oddly, the sound of Julian Ryder commentating on another race does cut in after the podium ceremony. I can only apologise I suppose! :(
From NZ 🇳🇿: I remember that race. Far out..we were dropping chips and knocking over the odd beer..accidental backhand to the bros (and sisters) face 😆🤘
That Moto Guzzi was a missile in the straights, but compared to the Brittens in the corners, it looked more like an old mate's Gixxer 750 vs a full-on GP bike haha
For me the Britten is the most astounding bike of our time, perhaps ever!! John just threw out the rule book and made everything better, an utter legend, on a par with Philip Vincent. If ever I win the biggy on euro millions I would put this bike back into production, assuming I could get permission.
I reckon this race was on the 3rd August 1997. I gone down there on my brand-new Daytona RS and was amazed how Loopy Lewis was mixing it with the most amazing bike in the world.
Well I liked the music, even if I'd like to hear the actual bikes sometimes. After this, I'm thinking that all bike races might be improved by lack of "expert" commentary.
Shame to see the Guzzi expire (I'm a long time lover / owner of Moto Guzzis!) but I have to ask... what the hell was Paul Lewis doing when it expired? Waving to the crowd when he should have been getting the bike off the racetrack? Yeesh.
I realise now that it was an exhibition race... the Brittens were just toying with him to make a show of it, and I guess Lewis was trying to gee them up a bit :D
The only thing that John Britten didn't build was the tyes and had he been given the chance he would be higher on the pecking order as the best bike builder in the world than he already is. NZ was robbed of a genius.
Paul Lewis delivered a great show with the Daytona against the Britten bikes. This is an outstanding performance for a modified road bike. The Britten bikes might be easier to ride - the Guzzi Daytona and the rider gets my full respect.
The Guzzi Daytona was a small-scale production version of the Dr John Wittner race bike. The chassis was developed for racing, as was the ohc 4 valve cylinder head conversion. It's a proper race bike, and Paul Lewis was running on the ragged edge.
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Answer is in the description and a couple of other comments. Basically that's what was on the VHS so the raw audio was lost (Bummer right?) It could probably be better music but I'd heard that track on the video since I was 5 so left it out out of nostalgia. Feel free to mute it, I won't be offended! ;)
Somehow I don't think so... hmmm
I was at this race, the Britten was like a spaceship compared to everything else. What pleasure to see this footage.
As a long time Guzzi owner and a proud Kiwi this is the best of both. What a genius John Britten was, gone to young.
indeed
I am from SA and was in NZ 14 years ago and met K Swantz and saw the BRITTEN being riden by Andrew Stroud at Phokekoe raceway. What a machine and what a great guy and rider Andrew is.
you clearly see they were toying with the poor lad 😂😂
PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION BEFORE COMMENTING ON THE MUSIC PEOPLE! If you can defy gravity on a motorcycle you surely can manage the volume on your device! Thanks Thomas for uploading this. It brought back a lot of good memories.
For all the folks with their panties in a wad... take a deep breath. Maybe it's time to put down your device and go for a ride?
The Brittens are just playing with the other bikes. The Guzzi guy was incredibly brave to stay with them while his bike looked like it was doing its best to throw him off.
Those Guzzi Daytonas were FAST and Paul was a short ass and VERY VERY fast... saw him race a few times back then. Around this circuit I'm not too surprised he could stay with them... at Bathurst it was a VERY different story... Stroudy loved the back wheel at Bathurst... he rode all the way up Mt Straight on the back wheel... showoff prick ;-)
muzza881 I had the same thought. Stroud is just waiting for the craziest possible place to pass and just doing it with ease. He doesn’t even look extended. The road holding and bump stability of that bike is on another level entirely. They weren’t even using the whole road.
Great footage. Thank you for posting . The Guzzie was all over the shop and hanging on by the skin of its teeth. Stroudy was just out there having fun... pulling wheelies and wanting Briggs to try and catch him. Absolutely loved it.
John Britten. RIP.
Those Brittens were dialed for sure. As for the Guzzi, this race and footage helped sort out a lot of handling issues. By the 1997 season it was a heck of a lot better and won every single race it was entered into that year.
John Britten was waaaaay ahead of his time and the rest of the pack. As a kid, I had a huge poster of Strouds' v1000 on my wall....surrounded by Suzukis.
The exhaust pipes, on their own, where a work of art....when I was at Assen, the sound blew me away. Only bike that even came close to the sound of a Britten, was the Ducati 916 SP with race pipes whilst engine braking downhill.
Hell of a bike, hell of a designer :)
I visited the Te Papa museum here in NZ and the Britten was on display. I spent at least an hour looking over every inch of it, like someone who loves fine art. I wish I could've heard it run.
Yes I did too at Tepapa & there's one in motor cycle meca Invercargill which I was able to jump the ropes and photograph up close and personal 😊. Plus they have his early prototype and a unknown single that he was working on before his death. I remember when he came and raced the v1000 at Teratonga Raceway... when it went by the loud deep pitched drone sound of the high compression vee twin (something like 14.7:1) made a sound like no other and I remember being shocked that it would vibrate your chest as it flew past! This bike did hold the world record for the world's fastest acceleration production motorcycle from a standing start over 1000m.
love it the Kiwis were just playing and then Andrew just waved his mate through , You can have this one mate
Andrew Stroud/John Britten/V1000 = Ecellence! Thank you.
I cried when I heard John Britten had passed away. I was privileged to watch one of the Brittens race at the Wanganui Cemetery Circuit in the late 1990's. I've always wondered what John would have done with some of the technology available these days.
He would have done great things, but the bikes would have suffered with an hypotetic passage to SBK. They were powerful, they had to deal with basically old bikes like the Guzzi Raceco in the BEARS championships, but i don't want to imagine that "frameless" layout if REALLY pushed to the limits in SBK.
Yes it did, the Guzzi did improve however and go on to win the Battle of the Twins championship in '95 and pretty much every race it entered until development ceased in 1997.
Still awesome seeing a Guzzi Daytona leading all these other amazing bikes. What a time!
Pretty dang impressive for a two-valve, pushrod twin.
@@rcnelson
If it’s a Daytona, then four valves OHC - with very short pushrods.
Double over head cam 4 valve per cylinder heads how could there be push rods? Over head cams do not have push rods. Right@@kasperkjrsgaard1447
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Yep, a RACECO prepared Daytona. Not sure if it was in 1225 or 1288 cc guise here.
Britten V1000 - best bike ever!
What a great testamennt to the genius of John Britten. One kiwi in a garage with some tools toppled the giants. RIP
Homebrew Kiwi bike, two Kiwi riders. Absolutely superb. So tragic John Britten died on the cusp of great success. What a pity his bike disappeared
@@psk1w1 they didn't disappear, they are all still around somewhere... in museums I believe
@@cliftonmanley3882 Most are in US museums, only one is in running condition
In fairness he had some great help also from people who put in a lot hours on that bike. It was a team effort born from his vision.
@@psk1w1 most, if not all are in or in very close to running condition
Excellent choice of music from Yellow not often you hear their tunes.
Loved watching Paul Lewis giving his usual 100% on that Guzzi. Tuned I believe by Amadeo Castellani, a really nice bloke who serviced my Le Mans mkl in the 80's at Moto Mecca, South London. Cheers mate.
Yes, its a RACECO machine, Not sure if it was in 1225 or 1288cc guise here.
What a beautiful machine. The music is perfect btw; thank you for this video, amazing!
Paul did incredibly well to keep up with these two as long as he did!
Actually Stroudy and Briggo were politely asked not to run away with it too much, they were just playing with that Guzzi
Chris Mullan
Yep. We can see that.... Lewis wobbling and steering as a hero, the Brittens just going on their pace... I never saw a Britten invited to a technical test... and that's ok, keep the legend alive! But, my credits for Lewis, and Cobby!
@@chrismullan6207 bollocks the goose passed him several times , ., what got the goose was just like in the states when a bad earth struck ,it happened to many bikes another was the great slippery sam T150
Never seen so many wheelies in a real race before. The legend of Britten was real.
Stroudy pulled a mono all the way up Mt Straight at Bathurst... it was sight to see
Obviously complete confidence in the front-end not collapsing...
So nice to see these two boys out there on a Kiwi made bike. Just a shame John's dream could not live on.
His dream lives on in all of us. And I am a grown man building things now. JB was a huge inspiration. And I have actually won expert class races riding bikes I have built.
@@mb4lunch
Cheers, and best of luck in your endeavours.
Frikkin' Awesome! I watched the doco 20 years ago! Unbelievable but true!!
The chassis on the Britten is miles better than any of the other bikes in the field and the power is undeniable. Amazing!
Amazing race , John Britten and Sir Edd ,keeping the faith alive , makes me very proud to be Kiwi . I see both these bikes are racing in Christchurch next weekend 22nd Feb .
Just playing with the rest of the field ... Bike was decades ahead of all ... All the millions that the factory bike manufacturers spent and he built it in a garage by hand ... 🇳🇿
If you turn the volume off and make your own motorcycle sounds, it's actually quite good.
I am ok withe guzzi sound but the other two Brittens side by side toward the end is a tough ask. Actually the Guzzi at the end is quite easy too as it is by then silent.
I didn't listen to your warning.
and so i did.
Yeah, I felt a bit yellow toward the end....
The fast Guzzi does well to mix it considering it was once a road bike.
GRUESOME TWOSOME
Wow..Britten an engineer way beyond his time....thanks for the feeling..
1000%..crowd would have been truly mystified...how does a garage machine
perform this way.....
KIWI INGENUITY...
Our one chance to hear the great Twins and we get this silly music. for whoever did that!
Eurosport... I guess? I've mentioned a couple times but the comments keep rolling so; We had the VHS from around '95-'96 and with it was the music heard here. I tried a while back to get access to their archives but they cut off around 2005 I think. Just unfortunate. Honestly I have watched this countless times since I was 6 years old so I kept the music for my own nostalgic reasons and for that I won't apologise because whatever I put on, someone won't like it! ;)
@@TomCastellani of course they won't it's taking away from the spectacle by at least 50%.
@@pbysome since you are willing to make a comment from the dead i will too.
i vote to keep what is probably the categorically most cringe worthy, corn ball, worst of the 90's even worse than the 80's music on the video track despite the natural and healthy impulse to reject it to hell, since it IS the original historical artifact and it is dangerous to forget how bad things can be if we take our good fortune for granted. if that music could have been produced under any circumstances and put against that video and the editor who made that choice was not immediately tortured to death live on television just to redeem all of humanity in the eyes of God himself then we all need to be reminded of such tragedy as the necular bomb, chernobyl, the spanish inquisition and the holocaust and place this horrible reminder in the museum next to it's piers as a painful but necessary reminder of even though people are capable of amazing compassion and beautiful forgiveness and creativity, we can also just be just as dark, terrible and ultimately tragic actions so as it makes it necessary to properly document at least the worst, if not all of history's greatest blunders.
that editor should be sacked!......just in case........i wasn't clear back there.
Dont worry thesoundtrack sounds better.
Great to see what a Kiwi can do. R I P John Britten
Plus a pair of kiwi riders
alongside the BMW JJCobas from 1984, the Britten is the most beautiful race motorcycle ever built
Thank you Tom, you have made my day. Paul Lewis was riding the wheels off that Daytona until it expired.
Why did it expire? Just a guess, the rider over-revved trying to keep up with the more powerful Britten, and blew it up
Paul, I have seen some articles place the blame on that huge wheelie off the start. The Raceco has a shallower sump than most Guzzis and the oil filter is placed on the floor of the sump. A big wheelie like that can cause oil starvation.
@@GuzziHeroV50 The fatal flaw was the oil pickup at the front of the motor. Acceleration and wheelies caused oil to surge to the back of the engine starving the big ends of oil. The Raceco machine had a deeper sump than standard, a deep V-shape to try and keep oil over the pickup and help cooling. We tried baffles and plates, to scrape the crank webs as well to reduce drag, but it really needed a complete oil gallery redesign. Still, it didn't do too bad for a tractor.
@@mickhayes2178 Thanks for the correction. I was sort of right sort of wrong in that the wheelie did damage, but not why it did damage.
I dream of owning one of these one day. But then I also want an MGS01, a Magni Australia and a Ghezzi-Brian. A lad can dream, eh?!
Those Brittens look like leggy supermodels compared to the stocky Guzzi. Very nice to see the suspensions soak up bumps very well. Definitely says handling!
The top speed of the Guzzi's was impressive.
The start too (maybe thanks to the car-like monodisk clutch.
All the other riders look like they are working their tails off and stroud looks like he’s out for a casual ride.
the Britten was so stable no wobble nothing just a magic otorcyce
The McLaren racing was started by the late Bruce McLaren another Kiwis. He and Chris Amon won Fords first ever Le Mans race back in 1966?
Stroudy is just just playing with them , when he looks over his shoulder hes looking for his only compitition the other Britten. WHAT A BIKE WHAT A COMBINATION OF BIKE AND RIDER.
Remembering those days way back . Fuckin` proud as , John Britten the Legend !! Stroudi the legendary rider !!!
Love the video..but I wish that terrible cartoon music was muted so the beautiful sound of those v twins could be heard.
No matter how many times I watch this, simply "POETRY IN MOTION! "
Only 2 bikes in it. The rest were obstacles on the track. Pity about the soundtrack had to turn the sound off!
Brilliant Tom, haven't seen that before. Was watching from the embankment screaming my head off that day. Say hi to Ammo for me, haven't seen him for years, we built the first racing Guzzi, before the Cobby days. Mike.
+Mike Dolan Awesome! Ammo says hello!
Stroud looks like he's in a practice round every lap! Engineering excellence from a guy who thought "I'll give it a go " from his garage!
VERY impressed with the Moto Guzzi that keeps up with the world's best motorcycles at that time!
Paul Lewis was a hell of a rider, mate.
A joy to watch. My brother was quite successful in battle of the twins first on a 600 Duke and then an 888. Regularly raced against Paul. I forgot how much i enjoyed watching Paul Lewis ride a motorcycle, Just beautiful. He really does ride the wheels off a bike.
yep, its a few years since I was tempted to watch this, and that soundtrack is still every bit as INANE and ANNOYING!!!!
The brittens look so much mpre poised on the track make it look easy.
perfect song for rakeing garden leaves.
Dominated by the Brittens, the Guzzi was clearly struggling to match that pace, it looked so unstable and the Britten so composed!
Gotta remember the guzzi is a shaft drive endurance bike and the Britten is a carbon fibre gp masterpiece. Credit where its due the guzzi did well!
@@danielmoore2555 Shall we mention it is Air cooled as well?
@@smeghead61 and the motor is mounted the 'wrong' way and its gearbox wouldn't look out of place in a fiat. The guzzi and its rider did really well to even place when brittens are involved
Brittens clearly in a class by itself! That said, owned a MG V7 sport and loved how stable it felt. Choose a line, lean it over and the Guzzi would just stick with the plan. With power train spinning in one plane and wheels spinning in a plane perpendicular it felt like it had a gyroscopic stability to it that i haven't experienced on other lay outs. Had a few BMWs but didn't feel the same effect though they were the big pseudo dirt bikes with longer travel suspension which might have complicated the comparison. More likely, just full of shit!
Stroad was playing with them ..He could of disappeared in to the distance ..
That was surgery. Stroud & Briggs carving up the track !. Come back soon John; more fun work to be done ! :)
This footage causes two regrets. The first one, the end of the Britten saga. Those bikes were monsters and they really would have deserved a serial production. The second one, the end of race bikes by Guzzi, reduced today to produce only revival cruisers and cafè racers for Harley-style fat asses.
The end? The MGS-01 won at Daytona Battle of the Twins.
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bollocks the moto guzzi is doing ok ,.the V7 is a superb machine the V9 the worlds best kept secret ,,,,also there is much bullshit about britten ,he was a user ,used his mates big time ,,,,you never hear about the extra motor that he tried to stop his best mate getting ,.,.a court case sorted that out ,. ,. i went to school with the mechanic he used while in america
Interesting "usat42"??? I'm sure there's always a flipside to every success story...thanks
I think the music is fine. It's probably the smoothesth long mix of The Race I've ever heard, I must have been at about 10 minutes before I started thinking this seems longer than usual.
Goddamn this music. I had to mute it and make my own noises.
Holy shit my mums ex used to own this bike! What I wouldn't do to ride it, and to just hear it again. I am always in awe of this magnificent Daytona. The Raceco Daytona is a legend, just as the Britten, but that raceco, wow :) What a noise! Saw it at Cadwell too being put through it's paces, just WOW! What a sound :) LOVE IT!
Well I just found my old account lmao
At least one of the bikes is now insured for NZ$1,000,000
Barber motor cycle museum have one I think Alabama USA, Insured for at least $1,000,000 sounds believable they are very rare!
Paul lewis just couldn't shake those Britten's, they looked so stable and eventually powered on
just fantasic!! shame about the sound. stroud is such a smooth rider. thanks for the vid!!
The Britten needs a movie!
Ohhhh!!! INCREÍBLE !!!
La Guzzi era un misil pero las Britten parecía que iban de paseo intergaláctico !
Gracias por dejarme ver ESA LEYENDA en acciòn.
John Britten ERA UN GENIO !!! 🇪🇸👍👍👍
Watching the Britten puts me in mind of watching the Ducatis run in the '70s. Not a wiggle to be found even when pushed to the limit. The Guzzi looked like it had a frame made of tempered pasta.
You have to remember this actual Guzzi was a production bike, i.e. originally a road bike, tuned and lightened in basically a shed by an enthusiast, Amadeo Castellani, with little or no sponsorship. Secondly, it's shaft drive, with all the handling issues that entails and the inability to alter the gearing for different circuits. For it to be up there giving two Brittens, designed and built as race bikes from the start (and hats off to John Britten), a run for their money is nothing short of remarkable and due also to the vary talented Paul Lewis.
I''m quite aware of the Guzzi's limitations, and why it was doing the little dances. Really, I was just expressing my admiration for Britten's brilliant bike. Also, remember that I mentioned another famously unflappable bike that WAS a production motorcycle. Truth is, is that most production AND racing motorcycles of the era had some scary shite handling characteristics.
@@scheusselmensch5713 Yamaha TRX 850 was pretty stable as well and when it lost control, most of the times it magically regained it. Gave mine to a friend to restore it and use it.
Wow wat couldve been now..one man one dream one cool machine..
Kiwis kicking ass - legends - more offerings to the god of speed!
Beware of Kiwis with a B in their name and an interest in motorsport. Burt Munro, Britten and Bruce McLaren. They sure kicked some motor aristocracy butts
@matteostocchero1488 George Begg too.
The Guzzi is skittish, the Britten is planted, and Yello is great😍
holy crap. what a monster of a stomping. They just had to start playing with each other, Christ! They caught up with the pack for God's sake. Do want.
Yer can want all yer like. Only ten Brittens made, and each one will be VERY highly prized
Guzzi looked like a handful (as usual). Britten was reliable, not like the old days in AMA Pro-Twins, where it would finish 1 out of 5 races. I even outlasted it once or twice back then...
I concur however the VHS we got from Eurosport at the time had that music on. I'd kinda' got used to hearing it so struggled to pick something else although oddly, the sound of Julian Ryder commentating on another race does cut in after the podium ceremony. I can only apologise I suppose! :(
From NZ 🇳🇿: I remember that race. Far out..we were dropping chips and knocking over the odd beer..accidental backhand to the bros (and sisters) face 😆🤘
Great vid , thanks for uploading.
Stroudy, JB and his beautiful bikes, a legendary combo❤
That Moto Guzzi was a missile in the straights, but compared to the Brittens in the corners, it looked more like an old mate's Gixxer 750 vs a full-on GP bike haha
Great action, thanks for uploading this.
Touche! Well done Thomas !
Magnificent!
Yeah, so would I! Genuinely sorry about that, I wish we had raw sound because if so I would've kept it intact. Hope you enjoyed the race anyhow!
Fabulous footage. We sell 'One Man's Dream' the John Britten story. Available in all formats through our Manxshop Ebay pages.
Second placed Briggs was nearly half a minute faster than third position!!
Paul Lewis, a rider who gave it all he had. Even when outgunned.
Thanks for the score board covering the whole screen when we can see all we need to know
Good reminder of Britten brilliance. Shame about the crap music.
WAS THAT THE CATS AMONGST THE PIGEONS OR WHAT?
For me the Britten is the most astounding bike of our time, perhaps ever!! John just threw out the rule book and made everything better, an utter legend, on a par with Philip Vincent. If ever I win the biggy on euro millions I would put this bike back into production, assuming I could get permission.
Shame about the lack of commentary and engine noise. Why this music ?
The Cat and the mice. Thanks for sharing!!!
I think Suzuki copied a lot of Brittens ideas for the TL1000s. I loved his "pencil on a blade" thinking and that's what a TL felt like.
I reckon this race was on the 3rd August 1997. I gone down there on my brand-new Daytona RS and was amazed how Loopy Lewis was mixing it with the most amazing bike in the world.
9:24 OH SO BEAUTIFUL!
Paul Lewis riding the wheels off that Guzzi!! Awesome.. Really would have loved to hear the bikes though...lol..
Just watching them go past the back markers. The speed difference is like 1000cc going past 600cc
Ever get that feeling someone’s watching you...?
Yello and this footage is brilliant!
Well I liked the music, even if I'd like to hear the actual bikes sometimes. After this, I'm thinking that all bike races might be improved by lack of "expert" commentary.
Shame to see the Guzzi expire (I'm a long time lover / owner of Moto Guzzis!) but I have to ask... what the hell was Paul Lewis doing when it expired? Waving to the crowd when he should have been getting the bike off the racetrack? Yeesh.
He was probably waving to warn riders not to run into him
I realise now that it was an exhibition race... the Brittens were just toying with him to make a show of it, and I guess Lewis was trying to gee them up a bit :D
Thanks
The only thing that John Britten didn't build was the tyes and had he been given the chance he would be higher on the pecking order as the best bike builder in the world than he already is. NZ was robbed of a genius.
It's a shame we couldn't hear the bikes :-(
That guy Lewis on the Guzzi had the measure of Stroud and the Brittens that day! At least for the first laps.
No
Apparently they were ordered to take it easy, That Guzzi was being ridden on the edge.
@@whatwhatyep you could tell the Kiwis were just playing , Andrew was signaling to Briggs , Hurry up get your arse up here , you can have this one
The bikes were on show, several Brittens showing the evolution of the bikes plus these two did several parade laps but no racing.
Paul Lewis delivered a great show with the Daytona against the Britten bikes. This is an outstanding performance for a modified road bike. The Britten bikes might be easier to ride - the Guzzi Daytona and the rider gets my full respect.
The Guzzi Daytona was a small-scale production version of the Dr John Wittner race bike. The chassis was developed for racing, as was the ohc 4 valve cylinder head conversion. It's a proper race bike, and Paul Lewis was running on the ragged edge.
yes you are right
I turned the sound off. Couldn't stand the 'music'. The racing was mighty!
The John Britten story is incredible!
The Britten sounds bad ass, To bad you have to watch a different video to hear it.
The music is a bummer!!!!!!!!!