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Thread ID: 98266	2009-03-18 00:43:00	Burt Munro's bike up for sale	John H (8)	PC World Chat

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757271	2009-03-18 00:43:00	A living piece of Kiwi history: www.stuff.co.nz	John H (8)
757272	2009-03-18 01:06:00	Found this.... www.webbs.co.nz Edit: It is amazing what some of these pre-war bikes can do. I remember that around 1959/60 maybe even later, that the 500cc 1/4 mile sprint record in UK was held by a 1920s inline (fore and aft cylinder) Douglas. It was faster than anything around at that time....	Terry Porritt (14)
757273	2009-03-18 01:48:00	(snip)Edit: It is amazing what some of these pre-war bikes can do.(snip) Yep, they can even separate a man from his wife... I went to the Cust races about 1993 or 94, and the announcer introduced an old racer from Pomgolia (I believe he was 83 years old). He was on his honeymoon, but he had brought out his old bike with him (from memory it was an Excelsior) and left his new bride at home... Now that is dedication to the cause. He pottered around the shingle roads of the racetrack mostly at the back of the field, but that was the beauty of the Cust races - no-one gave a s&*t. Cust RIP.	John H (8)
757274	2009-03-18 01:53:00	A living piece of Kiwi history: www.stuff.co.nz Pity the article doesn't make it clear that it is not "the fastest Indian" but a well worked Velocette that is up for sale, though the auction blurb does. It wasn't Munro's bike at all, and Velocette doesn't even appear in the text. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
757275	2009-03-18 01:54:00	I was looking for pix of the Douglas, and that led on to the Vincent, you know how it goes... Should be working, but. Anyway, I found this website that I have not seen before: www.motorcyclespecs.co.za Some good pix on that site (none of the Douglas), and videos. Great coverage of the Britten as well.	John H (8)
757276	2009-03-18 01:54:00	I would like to te papa buy it, would be a real treasure for NZ held in perpetuity. They spend a lot more on stupid works of art. Said to hear Cust races dead do they still do a rally there? like Hawkesbury?	prefect (6291)
757277	2009-03-18 01:55:00	Pity the article doesn't make it clear that it is not "the fastest Indian" but a well worked velocette that is up for sale, though the auction blurb does. Cheers Billy 8-{) Yeah, disappointing but the usual standard of journalism we have come to expect in Godzone. The headline is the main misleading bit - you actually have to read the article quite carefully to find out it is his velocette. The Webb url is far better.	John H (8)
757278	2009-03-18 02:00:00	I would like to te papa buy it, would be a real treasure for NZ held in perpetuity. They spend a lot more on stupid works of art. Said to hear Cust races dead do they still do a rally there? like Hawkesbury? Te Papa could line it up with the Britten (is it still there?). It would be better if it was the Indian though - I am not sure how many Kiwis would get off on the Velocette compared with the Indian. I haven't heard of a rally at Cust. I wonder how many road racers there are around now who could race on those shingle roads? It used to be great to hear the bikes coming and then see them emerge around the bend all crossed up and sliding sideways... When I was a kid in Rangiora we could hear the Cust races from there!	John H (8)
757279	2009-03-18 02:18:00	Doesn't matter its a Velo as long as Burt Monro sat on its a treasure. I know they did have mc rallies to Cust up to a few years ago as I have seen rally reports in mc mag. Maybe they died off I did 3 brass monkey rallies in the early 90s but got disappointed by the bastards who trailered their bikes up to or near entrance and rode in. Also the brass monkey got too commercialized even had helicopter rides. It was supposed to be a rally where you stood by the fire drinking piss telling bull**** stories. The front was too hot from the fire and your back was frozen cold. God knows how people didnt wander off pissed and and die in the snow.	prefect (6291)
757280	2009-03-18 04:11:00	There are pics of the inline Dougie here www.yesterdays.nl Talking of Vincents, well they were mentioned, they were the 'super bikes' of their day. A bog standard 1000cc Rapide twin would do the standing 1/4 mile in around 14 secs. It was somewhat slower than the Dougie. Club sprinters like 'Deafy' Mills could get their big twins to do around 11-13 seconds, whereas super sprinters like George Brown on Nero running on nitro got times down to the 9 secs mark, and I think lower on Super Nero American timing and start methods were a bit different to the British, it gave them about a second advantage. So their times were always better than the Brits.... until they competed on equal terms. This was when sprinting used real bikes and before the advent of 'Drag' racing with machines that didn't look like motorbikes.	Terry Porritt (14)
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