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STUFF Phil Garrett and a team of riders are aiming to break the New Zealand land speed record for a motorbike - on a 46-year-old, turbocharged Kawasaki he built in his garage. (First published April 6, 2021) It took hundreds of people and thousands of hours to build, but only a few seconds to break a homemade motorbike chasing a land speed record. On Friday, 56-year-old UK ex-pat Phil Garrett tried to set a New Zealand motorcycle land speed record on a closed road in Pendarves, near Ashburton....

“We are actually doing a very similar thing to what Burt Munro did in 1967. His bike was 47 years old, he was also chasing 200 miles per hour, and it took him about 20 years too.” Anyone who travels over 200mph (321.9kmh) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States, where Munro’s world speed record of 296.26 kmh for an under-1000cc bike still stands, is awarded a red hat, a prize coveted by many but achieved by very few. Garrett said he has always wanted one of those red hats. H...

As we track more snow, we have another warning: new research suggests winter weather can be hard on the heart. Here are some symptoms to look out for. At Stanleys True Value Hardware in Philadelphias Roxborough section, people were stocking up on salt and ice melt. "Its been selling regularly all day and of course the supply is dwindling, but we still have some," said manager Al Powell. "Its crazy, weve been getting storm after storm after storm. Its starting to get old," said Kirk Spingler of ...

Small told Stuff the 10-hectare garden would be a place for traditional storytelling to take place and would see native plants and vegetables planted, as well as a community hub built. “It’s uniquely Māori, uniquely Ōrakei.” Harakeke and kawakawa were just some plants that would feature in the garden. Supplied The garden has been designed to display the ethnobotany of Māori. It would be arranged in a style where plants would be grouped together in accordance with the parts of the ...