“It seemed like a tall ask until Valerie ran a lazy 328mph (528km/h) ‘off the trailer’”
Every once in a while a movie comes along that changes the motorcycling world, whether it was The Wild One laying down the template for outlaw biker culture in 1953 or On Any Sunday ushering in the trail bike boom of the 1970s. In more recent times, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s Long Way Round introduced us to the romance of adventure bikes, just as Easy Rider popularised choppers a generation earlier.
The latest candidate is The World’s Fastest Indian, the 2006 movie starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as Kiwi land speed racer Burt Munro. I know because I’m just back from Speed Week on Lake Gairdner in South Australia. There was a time when you could…
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Australian Road Rider (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 145