How a Homemade Superbike Beat Ducati

A dyslexic New Zealander built a motorcycle by hand in a backyard shed, took it to Daytona, and wheelied it past the factory Ducatis into the lead. His name was John Britten, and almost nobody outside New Zealand knows it. This is the story of the Britten V1000: a frameless, carbon-fibre superbike that one man designed from first principles, with a small crew of volunteers and almost no money, then used to beat the biggest manufacturers on Earth. We get into the radical engineering the factories couldn't match, the heartbreak at Daytona, the four world speed records it set in 1993 (one of them still unbroken more than 30 years later), and the cruel timing of it all, because John Britten was dying of cancer just as the world realized what he'd done. If you watched our Burt Munro video, this one is its sequel in every way that matters. More stories about the machines and the people behind them here:    / @two-wheeltruth