What "The World's Fastest Indian" Left Out About Burt Munro

In 1967 a 68-year-old New Zealander rode a motorcycle he'd built in a backyard shed across the Bonneville Salt Flats at 184 miles an hour, and that record still stands today. You've probably seen the Anthony Hopkins film. This is the part it left out. Burt Munro spent forty years turning a 1920 Indian Scout into the fastest machine of its kind on Earth: casting his own pistons in a tin can with a blowtorch, carving connecting rods from a tractor axle, and making cylinder barrels out of scrounged gas pipe. We get into the real engineering the movie glossed over, the ten trips to Bonneville it compressed into one, the true speeds behind the film's numbers, and the twist no movie could include: the record that was corrected in his favor in 2014, 37 years after he died. More stories about the machines and the people behind them here: https://www.youtube.com/@Two-WheelTruth ?sub_confirmation=1 0:00 The Man Who Beat the Record From the Grave 1:58 The Machine That Consumed a Lifetime 3:52 Engineering With Scrap and Imagination 8:42 The Long Road to the Salt Flats 13:37 The Final Push in 1967 21:27 The Arithmetic Error That Changed History

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