Forty-five years after his dying, Burt Munro continues to burn brightly within the minds of motorcyclists across the globe. The famed Indian-mounted Bonneville Pace Trials racer from New Zealand has been inducted into North Dakota’s Sturgis Motorbike Museum Corridor of Fame.
Munro was immortalized within the 2005 docudrama, The World’s Quickest Indian, the place he was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. Munro frequently modified his 1920 Indian Scout, setting eight pace information in New Zealand. Born in 1899, Munro traveled throughout the Pacific Ocean ten occasions to the Bonneville Salt Flats, the place he set pace information in 1962, 1966, and 1967.
“You reside extra in 5 minutes on a motorcycle like this going flat-out than some folks reside in a lifetime,” the Invercargill native is claimed to have famously noticed.
“Burt’s a legend,” Gary Grey, Vice President – Racing, Expertise and Service for Indian Motorbike, famous. “His accomplishments, via trials and tribulations, encourage our racing efforts right now. Whereas it might be overdue, it’s fairly an achievement for Burt to be enshrined into the Sturgis Motorbike Museum Corridor of Fame, and we’re extremely proud and grateful to rejoice Burt Munro, not simply right now, however each day.”
Indian Motorbike Vice President Aaron Jax additionally paid tribute to Munro, saying, “You can not inform the historical past of bikes with out mentioning Burt Munro. Burt’s tales have actually molded the Indian Motorbike model as we proceed to reside like Burt and push the envelope to drive innovation, break boundaries and blaze new trails.”
Indian paid tribute to Munro in 2013 with its Spirit of Munro streamliner, powered by the then-new Indian Thunderstroke 111 V-twin. Munro’s grand-nephew Lee set three class pace information on an Indian Scout modified by Indian Motorbike in 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of his great-uncle’s last record-setting runs, which produced a document that also stands in 2023.
Munro was posthumously inducted with fellow land pace document legend and businessman Jay Allen, writer/editor/journalist/builder Chris Callen, motor artist Scott Jacobs, pro-motorcyclist activist Russell Radke, designer/builder/racer/businessman/innovator Roland Sands, and the American 1981 Motocross des Nations workforce—Donnie Hansen, Danny LaPorte, Johnny O’Mara, and Chuck Solar.
