Land Speed Record Not For The Faint-hearted
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 4:25 pm Napier man Walter Rands-Trevor, primed and ready to begin his land-speed record bid on Goudies Road, near Reporoa. Photo by Kit Greer. There is perhaps nothing as scary or as thrilling at the same time as achieving a land speed record on a motorcycle. With no chassis or panels to surround the rider, no padding, no bumpers and no air bags, the adrenaline rush surely defies description and, in the tradition of legendary Kiwi motorcycling pioneer Burt Munro before him, Hawke's Bay man Walter Rands-Trevor certainly now knows that feeling intimately. For Napier's Ran...