Burt Munro story (Worlds fastest Indian)

http://www.dudeworld.com.au/ARTIBURTMUNRO.HTML
Awesome read with original photos. Makes the hair stand on the back of my neck.

Wow, That is amazing.
Same here, hairs on the back of my neck.

Good find brother. Love that story.

Alright guys, heres the deal. Every year on March 25th (Burt Monros birthday) we try and get together and have a DTT sponsored bike show somewhere. Nothin too crazy. Just a celebration of all things two wheeled, and a time to pay tribute to one of "the gods of speed." It could even be called "the gods of speed show", and 1 bike every year could be picked out as the most creative, well built bike, and be given the "Burt". It would be a cool homemade (every year a different member could make it) trophy. What do ya think? Id be more than happy to do a good bit of the organizing...

Brilliant write-up there, thanks for posting it troybuilt.

And yeah an annual do would be a cool idea, trophies could be something as simple as an old piston mounted on a laquered wooden base with a small engraved plate affixed. Obviously I'm sitting here writing this looking at the piston from my 125 haha.

Cheers - boingk

yeah the Burt Munro story is a good one. very inspiring. i guess if we didnt have distractions like the internet, many of us would be wrenching more