04-26-2020, 01:32 AM
(04-21-2020, 05:38 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Don't mind at all, Guth.
Max, thanks for that link. It's a great David and Goliath story ...
Boy isn't that the truth.
A few years back my wife and I attended one of the seemingly endless string of beer festivals to be found in our city. As it was a beer festival, we took public transportation. Heading back home on the train to catch the bus, we struck up a conversation with a couple that was visiting from out of the country. When I asked where they were from they replied New Zealand. At that point I asked them if they were familiar with John Britten.
As it turned out, these folks were not motorcyclists, nor were they really all that interested in motorcycles. But as soon as I mentioned John Britten we were all fast friends. They were very familiar with his story and justifiably proud of what he had accomplished — which I thought was incredibly cool. We ended up talking for quite a while while waiting for the bus to come and my wife and I ultimately hopped off of the bus with them so that we could direct them to one of the many food carts in the area that they had read about while still back home. We ended up exchanging names, numbers and addresses with them before going our separate ways. All thanks to the legacy of Mr. Britten. Good stuff.