usually at the end of a day it is common to undress and motorcyclists often can't wait to get the heavy hot leathers and boots off. However we should spare a thought for our steeds. They are operating at a far greater temperatures then our bodies. They have to endure constant contact with hot tarmac often spinning wildly as the torque twists the tyre and tries to rip it off the rim. While they have hopefully a good supply of cooling liquid it is likely to be ne...

The Burt Munroe Challenge is proving to be a very tough event as todays rraces proved. The day was taken up with the Road Racing Sprint series at Teretonga Park Motor Racing Circuit and the evening at the Oreti Beach Speedway. These two tracks are unique in that both hold the title of being the World's southern most FIA road racing circuit and Speedway circuit so to attend both in the one day was yet another first for me. Teretonga Park Motor Racing circuit is...

Some of my readers will appreciate my due diligence in researching and completing a set of events. John Kenton Britten,born 1st August 1950, was a self taught extremely gifted young man who died on 5th September 1995 but achieved world wide aclaim as a mechanical engineer when he designed and constructed a series of New Zealand manufactured motorcycles first bearing the name Cardinal Britten and later just Britten. These last "real Brittens"were made in extreml...

It was way after 1am but sheer determination overcame any lack of sleep, fear of walking the streets of a strange city late at night,unknown directions and a hoarde of bikers prowling the streets of Invercargill I was a man on a mission. Well lets delete one unknown the horde of bikers, after all I rode my Triumph into Invercargill to join thousands of other like minded enthusiasts here to attend the Annual Burt Munroe Challenge over 5 days. Burt Munroe should ...

After being told by friends back in Australia that some people had collected their bikes from storage and off riding plus we were sick of paying excessive rates for daily non booked accommodation plus a hire car three times dearer at daily rates rather then the original pre booked rates we bit the bullet and got a taxi to PF Transport in Christchurch. We rang Clint's number (the fourth time we had done this) and still no reply. However a voice did answer enquiri...