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Invercargill, at the far southern end of New Zealand. It's the late
1960s and two blokes sit in a modest shed drinking tea. The old
bloke is telling stories about his life; the young bloke, a junior
reporter, is typing earnestly on his Olympia portable typewriter.
Dramatic tales abound - of youthful scrapes, motorcycle races and
ingenious repairs, of international travel and friendships and road
trips, of high speeds and accidents and meetings with dutiful
policemen. Burt Munro became known around the world through the
2005 movie The World's Fastest Indian, but had long been known to
motorcycle fans as a colourful character and speed record-holder.
Our young journalist, Neill Birss, moved away from Invercargill and
the interviews he had typed out were never published. In fact, they
were lost during the move and only resurfaced under strange
circumstances many decades later. Here they are in this book - the
lost interviews with Burt Munro, legendary Kiwi motorcycle rider -
his voice as fresh and his stories as vivid as the day he told them
to the young reporter. Also available as an eBook.
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