New Indian Motorbike Brought Out Burt Munro's Original, Record-Setting Sentry Motorbike To This Year's Bonneville Speedweek, It's The 50Th Anniversary Of Burt's Tape Runs
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Burt laid out visited Bonneville inwards 1957.
He wouldn’t provide until 1962, bootstrapping his agency across the Pacific every bit a educate on a cargo shipping as well as apartment towing the Indian behind a $90 Nash station carriage from Long Beach to Bonneville.
That year, he pushed the streamlined Indian to a tape of 179 MPH inwards the 850cc class, as well as due inwards no minor purpose to the encouragement he received from swain racers, he continued to provide to Bonneville throughout the Sixties.
In 1967, the final twelvemonth he would race at Bonneville, Munro had enlarged the Indian’s V-twin to 950cc as well as entered it inwards Class S-A 1,000cc.
His piece of employment yesteryear speed of 191 MPH as well as his average speed of 183.586 MPH at that year’s Bonneville Speed Week non solely laid the course of education record, merely also established Munro’s then-47-year-old wheel every bit the fastest Indian motorcycle.
That tape went on to stand upward until 2014 when Munro’s boy John convinced the American Motorcycle Association to right a calculation error, bumping Munro’s tape to 184.087 MPH.
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/04/07/as-burt-munros-worlds-fastest-indian-record-turns-50-it-remains-unbroken/
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