| Author | Message | ||
     Corporatemonkey |
It is not "the motorcycle," but still it is a piece of history. http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/burt-munro s-motorcycle-sold-for-record-amount.htm Burt Munro, immortalized by Anthony Hopkins' Hollywood movie "The Fastest Indian", customized several motorcycles during his lifetime. It wasn't just the one you could see in the movie (an Indian Scout Invercargill). He, and his mate Duncan Meikle, worked on several race drag motorcycles. One of them, a 1936 Velocette Drag Bike, had been produced in a very limited series, 10 to be exact. The Velocette was used by Burt Munro at Invercargill’s Teretonga race circuit. The motorcycle was able to speed up to 250 kph, and Neil Neilson used it to break the land-speed record for 500 cc bikes.  This radical motorcycle was sold at an auction for NZ$71,000 (about US$38,000) to a Kiwi motorcycle collector. So the motorcycle stays in New Zealand! Lucky them... a piece of motorcycle history. | ||
| Danger_dave |
There are still a few of his bikes sitting in a hardware store in Invercargill too. Just sitting on the floor protected by some red string on a stick. Funny old town that one. | ||
| Indy_bueller |
You guys are using too many L's. I'd love to go visit that place. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Thought it looked wrong....like town square on a Saturday night. :-P | ||
| Coolice |
I want the lemon tree...... | ||
| Rubberdown |
I want to drink from the water barrel. | ||
| Babired |
That was such a cool movie I loved the part when he was cutting the tire treads off. K | ||
| Peeping_jon |
That may not be the BEST movie ever but it's up high on the list. Even non-motorcycle people like it. Hard to pick a favorite part or thing. | ||
| Danger_dave |
'We used to send the apprentices out to do the work because we knew we'd never get paid for it - but that was just Burt.' said one former Engineer who nearly hit me when I got the camera out to take his photo. | ||
| Tom_b |
Here is link where you can hear it running http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2009/03/burt-mun roduncan-meikle-1936-v.html | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Looks like it has a 1936 SuperTrapp. |
