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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. About 50 people attended the event on McCrorys Rd. ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Phil Garrett, left, and Ro...

“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. He initially built a sidecar racer – which took three and a half years, involved 500 people and cos...

She coughed first on Christmas Day and died days later from COVID-19      KENBRIDGE, Virginia (Martinsville Bulletin ) — Kitty Sue Hooker loved to read the newspaper each day, her caretaker, Carol Belcher said, and the first thing she would turn to was the obituary section. “She always wondered what they died from, so she wanted it in there what she died from,” Belcher said – COVID-19. Hooker, who was 94 and in good health, first coughed on Christmas Day and died of COVID on Jan. 2, her daughter, Katherine Boaz, said. Her mother’s cough wasn’t bad, and when Boaz saw her on th...