IT’S A CLASSIC
IT’S NOT OFTEN IN this world of ever tightening regulations, that you can attend a motorcycle festival where just about anything goes. In the racing sense that is. Street racing, circuit, hill climbs, drags, speedway, beach, the Burt Munro Challenge has it all, and spectators aren’t an afterthought like they are at many other racing events.
The Burt Munro Challenge has been going since 2006, getting better every year. Just in case you don’t know who Burt Munro is, he took a healthily modified fifty-year-old Indian to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, United States from Invercargill at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island. There he set world speed records when both he and his bike were well past retirement age. A huge effort
