"The World's Fastest Indian"

[jackinnj]

Wonderful movie on the local PBS station -- god bless all you Aussies who supported its production. Anthony Hopkins as an old coot who manufactures his own pistons!

 

[sippy]

The old coot was also from NZ...... great film though.
You should also look out for: One Mans Dream - The Britten Bike Story.

 

[aardvarkash10]

Aussies my **** - New Zealand!

 

[aardvarkash10]

based not only on a true story, but a real place and real people. Worth coming for a look if you are into that sort of thing.

Burt Munro Challenge

 

[sippy]

Britten built a 'special' engine for an attempt at the 'under 1000cc' m/c speed record, there's footage in the Britten film....... dunno what became of that effort, any one know?

 

[tvrgeek]

Indian name has just been put back into production here.

 

[Charles Darwin]

I get the impression that Kiwi sheds must be very special places!

After Burt Munro built the worlds fastest Indian in his shed, John Britten used his shed to create what still is the worlds most advanced motorcycle (Ducati's Panigale is so far the closest... only 20 years later!) another kiwi used his shed to come up with the first viable jet pack.

The Martin Jetpack

 

[sippy]

NZ sheds are very Very special.....

 

[jackinnj]

Sorry for making the reference to Van Diemen's Land.

 

[H E Pennypacker]

Great movie.

I'm sure all of us can somewhat relate to this movie, at least the part where you are pretty much living in your hobbies. A true professional hobbyist.

 

[mr2racer]

Yes! Great movie, great guy. Being an over-the-hill shoestring racer I loved it! Especially the scene where he's filling cracks in the dry rotted racing slicks in his motel room in front of a race official.

 

[sippy]

Yes! Great movie, great guy. Being an over-the-hill shoestring racer I loved it! Especially the scene where he's filling cracks in the dry rotted racing slicks in his motel room in front of a race official.

LOL.

'High Speed Tires'

 

[Charles Darwin]

NZ sheds are very Very special.....

The two possibilities are that either New Zealand is such an intrinsically boring country that some lock themselves in their sheds fiddling with stuff while others just tie some rubber bands on their feet and leap of bridges and or that NZ sheds are truly magical places.

The Kiwis I spoke to profess to the first option but I think that is just a ruse so they get to keep all those magic sheds to themselves.
And they better be careful indeed because this guy must have imported a NZ shed and built this in it:
v12 kawa - YouTube

 

[6L6]

Yes, fantastic movie! Such a great story of an interesting guy. One of my all-time favorites.

Trivia - Anthony Hopkins liked the story so much that he was willing to work for a small fraction of his normal fee.

 

[Pano]

One of my Favorites. Saw it at the cinema, bought the DVD.
Really hit home for me, as I've been on a speed team at the flats with a weird motorcycle (Russian sidecar) and have crossed the American West with the bike on a tailor behind an old Buick.

 

[M Gregg]

Don't forget to pee on the lemon tree

Regards
M. Gregg

 

[Charles Darwin]

One of my Favorites. Saw it at the cinema, bought the DVD.
Really hit home for me, as I've been on a speed team at the flats with a weird motorcycle (Russian sidecar) and have crossed the American West with the bike on a tailor behind an old Buick.

Nice!

Never thought of speed trials with one of those but I always fancied entering one of those russian side car outfits with the driven side car wheel in the Dakar Rally.

Unfortunately my bank manager strongly disagrees.

 

[Salas]

One of my Favorites. Saw it at the cinema, bought the DVD.
Really hit home for me, as I've been on a speed team at the flats with a weird motorcycle (Russian sidecar) and have crossed the American West with the bike on a tailor behind an old Buick.

URAL bike and sidecar? (BMW clone).

 

[sippy]

Didn't BMW make some thing similar in WW2?

I have a friend in NZ, he has a home concocted 2wd electric mountain bicycle and a Radio Controlled hovercraft that can give rides to kids of 5 - 6yrs old....... will see if he'll take some pics for posting.
He also into hifi, dunno if he's diy'd though.

 

[Salas]

Didn't BMW make some thing similar in WW2?

Yes the R series.