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CTXP: THE DRIXTON (2025)
Run Time: 57:03
Producer: Revzilla Common Thread XP
Director: Spenser Robert
Editor: Jesse Schuntz, Spenser Robert, Stephen Gregory
Key Cast: Ari Hemming, Zack Courts, Spurgeon Dunbar
FILM MAKERS
How far would you go to save your dad’s favorite motorcycle? In this episode of Common Thread XP, Ari and Zack are on a mission — from a barn in New Hampshire to the Barber Motorsports Museum — to get Todd Henning’s famous Drixton Honda out of boxes on a shelf and back on a race track.
Read the Common Thread article by Ari Hemming about his father and the project here.
SUMMARY
Todd Henning was the king of vintage racing in the 1990s, taking around 50 victories at Daytona alone. He was best known for his self-tuned, home-built Drixton Honda CB450 that beat far more exotic racers. This film follows his son Ari and friends as they bring Todd’s bike back from a dismantled wreck to race at Barber. From Revzilla’s ‘Common Tread’ series.
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Watched this already on YouTube .. or at least as much as I could tolerate . Two thumbs down ! Why ?
1) Rebuilding a vintage ( read expensive ) race bike ( even more expensive ) to go fake racing .. is the polar opposite of grassroots
2) The above also being the polar opposite of ‘ blue collar ‘
This ..errr .. film … being a perfect example of ” Just because you can .. does NOT mean you should
Not to mention another perfect example of the level of BS that finds its way onto rot economy YouSteal(Tube ) as it rapidly becomes en$4itified … like the rest of the net
My recommendation … go watch one of Nick Adams multiple videos instead … at least there .. you know every aspect of his words and filming are … the real freaking deal … rather than yet another Suburban Urban Hipster wanna be’s futile attempt at 15 minutes of fame .. or as PdL has so aptly put it .. ” Instafamous – Instabroke “
IYKYK…and you don’t. Maybe you should have watched to the end.
I’m not just slinging crap at you so please hear me out. Ahrma does have the expensive vintage race bikes for sure but Todd Henning was the antithesis of that. The Honda 450 was not the AJS, MV or Matchless. Todd made a street bike into a race bike, making or modifying many of the parts himself.
This story is so much more than “we brought an old vintage bike back to life”. It’s the story of Ari’s quest to find answers and connection to his father that he lost not to death but to brain injury about the time a young boy comes of age. The age where you would start asking your father deeper questions about bikes, racing and even more- when he would start connecting at a deeper level man-to-man. Unfortunately Ari never got to that level with his father because of the racing accident and brain injury.
Please suffer thru the whole story to the end. Again, I’m not starting a fight here but what you commented above does not relate to the story that I saw when watched it, or when I was there photographing it back in the day.
Excellent!
Would gladly buy a copy – would go well with my copy of “Brittens at Barber”.
Kevin Cameron’s article on Todd and his racer (May 1997 CW) fills in the story very nicely.
PS: Not shocked a sociopath wouldn’t get it – a backhanded endorsement of this video, really.