Some of my readers will appreciate my due diligence in researching and completing a set of events. John Kenton Britten,born 1st August 1950, was a self taught extremely gifted young man who died on 5th September 1995 but achieved world wide aclaim as a mechanical engineer when he designed and constructed a series of New Zealand manufactured motorcycles first bearing the name Cardinal Britten and later just Britten. These last "real Brittens"were made in extreml...

It was way after 1am but sheer determination overcame any lack of sleep, fear of walking the streets of a strange city late at night,unknown directions and a hoarde of bikers prowling the streets of Invercargill I was a man on a mission. Well lets delete one unknown the horde of bikers, after all I rode my Triumph into Invercargill to join thousands of other like minded enthusiasts here to attend the Annual Burt Munroe Challenge over 5 days. Burt Munroe should ...

After being told by friends back in Australia that some people had collected their bikes from storage and off riding plus we were sick of paying excessive rates for daily non booked accommodation plus a hire car three times dearer at daily rates rather then the original pre booked rates we bit the bullet and got a taxi to PF Transport in Christchurch. We rang Clint's number (the fourth time we had done this) and still no reply. However a voice did answer enquiri...

The Yaris continued to provide a comfortable platform for site seeing however the reason we came to New Zealand was to ride the country on our Triumphs. Why else would we have shipped them at some cost? No matter what contact we made the message was the same "Bikes not released!" I decided to make best of the situation and so we soon arrived in Timaru on what was to eventually become 3 visits to this charming historic town. I had wanted to take my friends there...

The Yaris continued to provide a comfortable platform for site seeing however the reason we came to New Zealand was to ride the country on our Triumphs. Why else would we have shipped them at some cost? No matter what contact we made the message was the same "Bikes not released!" I decided to make best of the situation and so we soon arrived in Timaru on what was to eventually become 3 visits to this charming historic town. I had wanted to take my friends there...