Burt Munro's bike in Auckland!

[cave weta]

The owners of this funky little Cafe Bar,Restaurant at 311 Parnell Road has got Burt Munros Vellocette on display
www.myplacenz.co.nz

This is “The Original 1936 Burt Munro/Duncan Meikle Special" Velocette Drag Bike.This glorious machine is now on display at My Place. The Record certificate states from New Zealand Auto Cycle Union, that it broke the NZ Standing 1/4 Mile 500cc at Teretonga on the 10th of May in 1964, Distance 1/4 Mile Machine, Velocette (This One) Time 13.1 seconds
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Kathy and Vic tell me that All Kiwi Bikers are welcome and will recieve a free Coffee or a beer if they visit before next Monday

[.chris]

Cheers for the heads-up.

Will have to go in and check it out.

[crazyv]

The owners of this funky little Cafe Bar,Restaurant at 311 Parnell Road has got Burt Munros Vellocette on display
www.myplacenz.co.nz

Seems like the site is down?

[TOTO]

Seems like the site is down?

nah man, site is sweet as.


i'll try to go past and take a few snaps. Cheers Cave Weta

[Swoop]

Offering free beer???
On this website??

Madness.


Must pop in for a looky.

[Bass]

A short story: -
Invercargill is my home town and I inherited my interest in things rapid and mechanical from my father, who (among other events) used to regularly attend the beach races at Oreti Beach.
The road between Invercargill and the beach crosses the Oreti river and until relatively recently, had a short steep hill down on to the bridge. From there, the road carries on straight for about 1km, passes through a long sweeping "S" bend and then is straight again for about 2 km out to the beach.
On the occasion of interest, my father, heading for the races, was about half way down the second straight in his Austin 7 and so doing about 45 miles per hour when he was overtaken by a gentleman on a motorcycle. The bike was travelling quite quickly - Dad estimated its speed at about twice his own - let's be a bit conservative and say 80 miles per hour.
The thing is, the bike was silent. The engine wasn't running.
On reaching the beach, Dad found Burt with his Velo leaning against a sand dune where the road enters the beach. The bike was a non runner and Burt hitched a ride to the races with Dad. When asked what was wrong with the bike, his response was " I don't know. I think I bent a push-rod dragging her into top coming down the hill onto the bridge".
That was about 2km back down the road from where he overtook Dad.
We often wondered how fast he was going at the time.

[cave weta]

A short story: -
Invercargill is my home town and I inherited my interest in things rapid and mechanical from my father, who (among other events) used to regularly attend the beach races at Oreti Beach.
The road between Invercargill and the beach crosses the Oreti river and until relatively recently, had a short steep hill down on to the bridge. From there, the road carries on straight for about 1km, passes through a long sweeping "S" bend and then is straight again for about 2 km out to the beach.
On the occasion of interest, my father, heading for the races, was about half way down the second straight in his Austin 7 and so doing about 45 miles per hour when he was overtaken by a gentleman on a motorcycle. The bike was travelling quite quickly - Dad estimated its speed at about twice his own - let's be a bit conservative and say 80 miles per hour.
The thing is, the bike was silent. The engine wasn't running.
On reaching the beach, Dad found Burt with his Velo leaning against a sand dune where the road enters the beach. The bike was a non runner and Burt hitched a ride to the races with Dad. When asked what was wrong with the bike, his response was " I don't know. I think I bent a push-rod dragging her into top coming down the hill onto the bridge".
That was about 2km back down the road from where he overtook Dad.
We often wondered how fast he was going at the time.

Its so good that these Burts Munro stories are surfacing- everybody is just focussing on the Indian prt of his story. I would love to get down South and research the people and the places sometime.
That photo on their website of Munro with the Vellocette looks just like the way they depicted his property in the movie!

[Bass]

Its so good that these Burts Munro stories are surfacing- everybody is just focussing on the Indian prt of his story. I would love to get down South and research the people and the places sometime.
That photo on their website of Munro with the Vellocette looks just like the way they depicted his property in the movie!

I agree. However, we tend to forget that the movie was purely entertainment and only slightly educational - it took quite a few liberties with the facts.
It also did not reveal quite how eccentric Burt was.

[R6_kid:Me]

LOL at the pic where it has road rego plate on it! That's just pure AWESOME!

[Weta]

Thanks for the heads up on that, how cool is that will def get down there check it out and happily pay for a coffee