1/22/23
Another installment of editor-at-large Blake Conner’s “Coolest Sportbikes of the ’90s” has just hit cycleworld.com, and not only is the latest machine featured possibly the coolest bike of the 1990s, it just might be the coolest of all time. I’m talking about John Britten’s V1000. When Conner told me that Britten’s creation was next on his list, I could see the June 1992 cover of Cycle World clear as day.
Mind-blowing shapes,colors, and craftsmanship are burned into my brain from that 1992 Kevin Cameron article—one that I read over and over and over again at 16 years of age. I suspect many of you have a similar story to tell. And while I can’t exactly quote all of Cameron’s words from his technical look into the V1000, there’s one sentence I clearly recall: “Britten’s new racebike is built like a torpedo atop a knife blade.”
If you are unfamiliar with this masterpiece and world-beater of a motorcycle, take the time to soak up Conner’s dive into the Britten V1000 and V1100. If you are familiar, my words here are wasted; you’ve already clicked away to the article. I don’t blame you a bit. Three decades on, it’s still one of the greatest motorcycles ever created.
As always, there’s more than we can fit into this email. Check out cycleworld.com for additional tests, reviews, and news.
Ride on and Happy New Year,
Justin Dawes
Executive Editor
