Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Herbert James "Burt" Munro (Bert in his youth; 25 March 1899 – 6 January 1978) was a motorcycle racer from New Zealand, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record, at Bonneville, on 26 August 1967. [2] This record still stands; Munro was 68 and was riding a 47-year-old machine when he set his last record. [3]
In the 2005 film The World's Fastest Indian, Burt Munro and his highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle sets a world record. In the 2015 series finale episode of Mad Men, Donald Draper drives a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS muscle car in the races at Bonneville Speedway. [17]
While Munro did reach 205.67 mph on an uncompleted run, on which he crashed, [12] he never set a record of 201 mph at Bonneville (as the film suggests). Near the end of the film, Speed Week participants throw money into 'the hat', and Burt Munro is presented with a bag of cash before he sets the speed record.
Visitors at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The thickness of salt crust is a critical factor in racing use of the salt flats. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has undertaken multiple studies on the topic; while a 2007 study determined that there was little change in the crust's thickness from 1988 to 2003, [8] more recent studies have shown a reduction in thickness, especially in the northwest ...
The first generally recognized motorcycle speed records were set unofficially by Glenn Curtiss, using aircraft engines of his own manufacture, first in 1903, when he achieved 64 mph (103 km/h) at Yonkers, New York using a V-twin, and then on January 24, 1907, on Ormond Beach, Florida, when he achieved 136.27 mph (219.31 km/h) using a V8 housed in a spindly tube chassis with direct shaft drive ...
Burt was estimated to be over 90-years-old and weighed a staggering 700kg, per The Independent. Crocosaurus Cove Darwin said his death was, "the end of an incredible era."
Munro B. Indian 1967 1000 S PG 87.078 Sherrer E. Norton 2006 1000 SC AF 155.465 Murray R.&N. LCR/Suzuki 2012 1000 SC AG 135.693 Murray R. Suzuki 2010 1000 SC BF 104.423 Tyner J. Ducati 2021 1000 SC BG 89.904 Marlow T. Ducati 2021 1000 SC CG 95.777 Cote D. BMW 2017 1000 SC P 103.131 Bier P. BMW 2016 1000 SC VF 96.509 Kott F. Harley-Davidson 2006
The World's Fastest Indian (2005) – New Zealander biographical sport drama film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle [130]