“The first time Dad took his bike to Bonneville he brought it back with him again but that proved too expensive, so in future he left the frame and shell over there and only brought the engine and gearbox back each time. “The most authentic Munro Special is here in Invercargill,” John Munro says. His grandson now continues that tradition. The store’s late owner, Irving Hayes, bought his old friend’s bike after Munro passed away and put it in his shop – E. The bike that Burt Munro devoted his life to now sits in a hardware store in Invercargill, New Zealand, surrounded by lawnmowers and BBQ sets. The following year, Burt was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
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In 2005, director Roger Donaldson made a movie about his childhood hero and The World’s Fastest Indian became a global success. In 1978 he finally succumbed to the heart condition that had troubled him for years. In an unofficial one-way run (world records must be set over a two-way run) Munro was clocked at an eye-watering 190.07mph on his ancient streamliner!īy 1975, Burt’s health was too poor to allow him to keep travelling to Bonneville but he continued to develop the Indian at home. To date, no one has ever gone faster on an Indian – except Burt himself. Five years later – and with the Scout now bored out to 1000cc – Munro set a new world record in the 1000cc class of 183.58mph. Munro established six speed records in his native New Zealand before travelling to Bonneville in 1962 and setting a new 883cc class record of 178.95mph. I don’t know what he paid for the Indian but it was somewhere in the order of $130-$150.” What records did he set?
It was the challenge of seeing what he could do. “He liked to confound the experts – if someone told him it couldn’t be done, he liked to prove otherwise. “He just liked the personal challenge of making an old bike go faster,” says son, John Munro. He made barrels from pieces of cast iron gas pipe which he scrounged from the local gas company after they’d been dug up he hand-carved con-rods from an old tractor axle, and even carved the tread off normal tyres with a kitchen knife to make high speed slicks! Why didn’t he just buy a faster bike? Over the years he would make his own barrels, pistons, flywheels, cams and followers, and even his own lubrication system – all on a shoestring. Working in his garden shed for 16 hours a day and only ever taking off a half day for Christmas, Munro developed his Scout over a period of 46 years, always seeking ways to make it go faster. The engine was housed in a double down-tube cradle frame which had no rear suspension but there was about two inches of travel at the front thanks to a leaf spring. The 1919 Indian Scout was a 600cc V-twin with side valves and a three-speed, hand-change gearbox, capable of just 50mph. Self-taught New Zealand engineer Burt Munro spent 46 years developing an Indian Scout in his shed and travelled to Bonneville Salt Flats in America to set a new world record of 183.58mph – the fastest speed ever recorded by the marque. The 2005 Anthony Hopkins movie The World’s Fastest Indian was a huge success but the story it was based on is even more astonishing. It starred in a hit movie but the original ended up in a most unlikely place
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