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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.
- What Was The Original Bike like?
- How Did Munro Make It So fast?
- Why Didn’T He Just Buy A Faster bike?
- What Records Did He Set?
- What Became of Munro?
- So Where’s The Bike Now?
- Indian Tech Specs
The 1919 Indian Scout was a 600cc V-twin with side valves and a three-speed, hand-change gearbox, capable of just 50mph. 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.
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. Over the years he would make his own barrels, pistons, flywheels, cams and followers, and even his own lubrication system – all on a shoestring. He made barre...
“He just liked the personal challenge of making an old bike go faster,” says son, John Munro. “He liked to confound the experts – if someone told him it couldn’t be done, he liked to prove otherwise. It was the challenge of seeing what he could do. I don’t know what he paid for the Indian but it was somewhere in the order of $130-$150.”
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. 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. To date, no one has ever gone faster on an Indian – except Burt himsel...
By 1975, Burt’s health was too poor to allow him to keep travelling to Bonneville but he continued to develop the Indian at home. In 1978 he finally succumbed to the heart condition that had troubled him for years. He was 78. In 2005, director Roger Donaldson made a movie about his childhood hero and The World’s Fastest Indian became a global succe...
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 store’s late owner, Irving Hayes, bought his old friend’s bike after Munro passed away and put it in his shop – E. Hayes & Sons Ltd. His grandson now continues that tradition. “The most authentic Munro S...
Model:It’s a universal misconception that the world’s fastest Indian was a 1920 Scout. “The Indian was actually a 1919 model,” says Burt Munro’s son, John. “But Burt bought it in 1920 so he always called it a 1920 model.” Engine:Originally a 600cc, Munro bored it out to 850cc, then 920cc, 953cc and, ultimately, 1000cc. Power:By the end of its devel...
The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the Invercargill, 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 ...
Mar 16, 2024 · Burt died of natural causes in 1978, aged 78 years. In 2014, 36 years after his death, he was posthumously awarded a 1967 record of 296.2593 km/h (184.087 mph) after his son John noticed a ...
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Mar 1, 2018 · He was made a legend, and his bike became the world’s fastest Indian. Perhaps the most shocking part of Burt Munro’s story is Burt Munro himself. At the time that he broke the record, Munro was 68 years old, a few months shy of his 69th birthday. His record-breaking bike, a modified, customized Indian Scout, was 47 years old.
Feb 14, 2024 · John says. He further explained it’s a universal misconception that the world’s fastest Indian was a 1920. “The Indian was actually a 1919 model, ” says Burt Munro’s son, John. “ But ...
The World's Fastest Indian: Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, Aaron Murphy. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
