Burt Munro

The Lost Interviews

Neill Birss, Neill Birss

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Penguin Books (NZ)
13 June 2016

Biography: sport; Motorcycle racing

Previously unpublished interviews with Burt Munro, legendary Kiwi motorcycle rider made famous in the movie The World's Fastest Indian. Colourful tales of a life well-lived.

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.

By: Neill Birss, Neill Birss
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 302g
ISBN: 9780143573982
ISBN 10: 0143573985
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 13 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Neill Birss is a Christchurch business and technology reporter. As a young journalist in Invercargill he interviewed Burt Munro for a few months with the goal of writing a series of articles about Burt for overseas motorcycle magazines. Then he lost the interview material - until now. Birss rode an ex-army Indian motorcycle on a farm as a schoolboy, and much later commuted on a Honda road bike, but computers and electronics generally have long been his main technology interest.

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Burt Munro

The Lost Interviews

Neill Birss, Neill Birss

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