Herbert James "Burt" Munro (Bert in his youth; 25 March 1899 – 6 January 1978) was a motorcycle racer from New Zealand, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record, at Bonneville, on 26 August 1967. [2]

2017年3月24日 · Munro set a 55 cubic-inch record of 178.971 mph, as well as a new record in the SA 1000 class in 1966 at 168.066 mph. Munro ratcheted the SA 1000 class record up to 184.087 mph in...

2018年3月1日 · Burt Munro was almost 70 years old, but that didn't stop him from setting – and breaking –several world records with his 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle.

In 1967, 68-year-old New Zealand native Burt Munro made motorcycle history by setting a new official land speed record - 184.087 mph with unofficial top speed of 205.67 mph—when he raced his heavily modified 1920 Indian Scout Streamliner across the Bonneville Salt Flats in …

Burt Munro was a motorcycle racer from New Zealand, best remembered for his remarkable Bonneville records. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family, personal life, career, and achievements.

New Zealander Burt Munro was a motorcycle land-speed record-holder of the 1960s. One of his dreams was to run his homebuilt 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle, dubbed the Munro Special, on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

The late Burt Munro, is one of Southland’s most celebrated legends, and tributes to him have become popular attractions. The New Zealander, immortalised in The World’s Fastest Indian movie, was a speedbike racer that set land speed records in Utah in the late 1950s and 1960s on a highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle.