With chapters dedicated to fellow Kiwi speedway and motorcycling champions such as Ronnie Moore, Ivan Mauger and Burt Munro, it takes the reader on a warts-and-all ride through Briggo's main racing years - the 1950s to 1970s.
Other notables who crop up are his "mate" Evel Knievel and movie star Steve McQueen, who spent a day with Briggo being taught how to slide a speedway bike.
In the book, Briggo first outlines his impressive speedway history, which includes winning the world individual speedway title four times.
Later, he returns in more detail to significant races such as the 1972 world championship final - his last serious title assault.
All up, Briggo appeared in 17 consecutive world finals (1954-1970) and was a six-time winner of the British championship.
He was made an MBE for services to sport in 1973.
Written in genuine, good old Kiwi-bloke style, complete with colloquialisms and a few swearwords, it doesn't pretend to be a highbrow account.
Briggs describes pedalling his pushbike out to meet a 350 Matchless-riding cousin on Christchurch's backroads to practise his controlled slides, aged 14, in the following fashion:"So, a painful knee sure as hell wasn't going to wreck my cherished weekend. It was time to get my arse into gear as my first 'biggy' was waiting for me just down the road."
Interspersed with his racing adventures are Briggo's life adventures. He documents his ill-fated forays into diamond mining in the Liberian jungle; his son suffering a major speedway accident, and his wife dying of cancer.
Although it could probably have been condensed from its 486 pages, the frankness and honesty with which Briggo portrays his life makes for mostly entertaining reading.
• Catherine Pattison is a Wanaka-based motoring reporter.
