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The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the story of New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. [1] Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1,000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and ...
Burt Munro was the subject of a 2005 film, The World's Fastest Indian, based on a composite of his Bonneville speed runs. This film depicts a determined old man who, despite facing many difficulties, travels from New Zealand to the USA to test run his motorcycle west of the Great Salt Lake.
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Krishnam Raju Gadiraju (born 24 May 1989) [1] is an Indian speedcuber [2] [3] and unicyclist. [4] He is a six-time world record holder [5] and the first Indian to ever set a world record in speedcubing and unicycling. [4] On 19 October 2014, Gadiraju solved 2,176 rubik's cubes with one hand in 24 hours and entered into the Guinness World ...
(in fact, the director of The World's Fastest Indian made a documentary on Munro in 1973).-- Limegreen 00:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC) [ reply ] He did set a land-speed on his first visit to Utah in 1962 (when the film is set).
Burt Munro from New Zealand, featured in the film The World's Fastest Indian raced a heavily modified 1936 Velocette MSS. Racing preparation included making special pistons, changing the frame and increasing engine capacity to 650 cc. His top speed record on this motorcycle was 138 mph (222 km/h) with a 1/4 mile time of 12.31 seconds.
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Other notable films include In My Father's Den (2004) and The World's Fastest Indian (2005). Both films did well at the New Zealand box office, with the latter beating Once Were Warriors to become the highest-grossing New Zealand film at the domestic box office, earning over NZ$ 6.5 million; a record beaten by Boy in 2010.