it looks like Burt wants to be one with his scooter
it does look quite intimate...
The 1920 Indian Scout that he set the 184 plus change speed record with was a streamliner, so this may be the bike without the shell.The Fastest Indian Burt Munro
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Like playing Russian Roulette with friends when we got board on the hot Mississippi nightsThings like that help build character.
Then there was the time I almost froze to death stuck in open boat 5 miles from shore , ice in water trying to make a living. Motor was shot no radio, before cell phones and no one even knew I was out on the water that day , it was so bad , no one else went out that day. I must have an angel.
Walt was he wearing wader pants with built in boots?Awright, funny anecdote. I was 14, visiting a buddy (Tom) who lived on a canal that led to the sea. We had gone duck hunting on his rowboat with the 4HP motor.
As soon as we got into the bay, here came the snow. Whiteout. We had no compass (who needs a fargin compass in a BAY? Just turn the motor on and eventually you will hit land. That's what we did until we ran out of gas. Freezing. So we started to row. Eventually, we got to a shore, Tom recognized where we were, and we rowed back to his canal.
Understand, here: Two kids chilled to the fargin bone, exhausted. Got to his dock, and I climbed up the snow-covered slippery logs onto the dock. Tom picked up the shotguns, and leaned up to hand them to me.
He off-balanced because of the ice and snow, and fell straight down in twelve feet of freezing water... dressed in super heavy clothing. After a couple of seconds, he surfaced with a shocked-white face. I was able to get my hand around his wrist. I could feel tendons standing out in my neck as I walked backward, dragging him to safety.
Tom gets up, looks at me -- and this is the sequence of words exactly:
"Geez, Walt! You saved my life, I... OH SCHIT!! The shotguns!!"
He turned around and jumped off the damn' dock, dove down to the bottom, and came up with the shotguns.
Second time was actually easier to pull him up, since the shotguns made it so I did not have to bend down and do a dead-lift.
No way. This took place in 1954. Teenage kids got hand-me-down coats and corduroy pants.Walt was he wearing wader pants with built in boots?
Absolutely the truth. Laughing my a s s off. Hippie, is a dirty old man with lots of life's experiences and it shows.....
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