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    some nice Britten pics

    in the SpeedTV.com gallery GALLERY - SPEED Images

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    Can't beat building an entire race bike in your 'garage'

    There are some awesome youtube videos of this in action

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    An amazing bike from an amazing guy. That has to be one of my favorite motorsport stories of all time.

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    I had number P2 in my jig. All apart and fixed it. Stroud crashed it, and it wobbled after that. I had to make some rather interesting jigs to get the alignment right. Cool project, but the phone bill to NZ was expensive.

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    How do you straighten (or bend for that matter) a carbon bike?

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    Quote Originally Posted by Paul_E_D View Post
    How do you straighten (or bend for that matter) a carbon bike?

    You don't bend it. I had to align the heim joints that define the steering axis. The hard part was that the heim axis were horizontal. I had the engineers in NZ baffled, but it worked. BTW that was the bike in the Guggenheim Museum.

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    woosh... the sound of that going right over my head.

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    Quote Originally Posted by gmdboston View Post
    You don't bend it. I had to align the thingie-ma-bobs that define the yadda yadda axis. The hard part was that the thingie-ma-bobs were horizontal. I had the engineers in NZ baffled, but it worked. BTW that was the bike in the Guggenheim Museum.
    That's about how I interpreted it. That sound any better to ya, Paul?

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    wow even casts his own Al engine blocks. props to that guy, legit builder

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    beautiful.

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    Yeah, if you read his biography, the stories about casting his own cases were really funny. It's a miracle any of them held back oil!

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    Saw one at Barber Museum a couple years ago. Could have sat there for hours trying to take it all in....remarkable bike...remarkable man...remarkable story.

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    Re: some nice Britten pics



    It never gets old.

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    Re: some nice Britten pics

    I went to a Ducati track day at Mosport years ago and there were two up there.
    Amazing bikes for sure.

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