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Offline Vinsky

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'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« on: March 13, 2013, 01:42:06 PM »
Here's the latest from Indian.
http://www.bikeexif.com/custom-indian-motorcycle?utm_source=feedburner
It will be interesting to see if it ever makes it to Bonneville. 
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Offline Tman

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2013, 02:02:00 PM »
I think it is more about Polaris building up the brand and new engine  by judging how many places that has popped up on the web in the last week.
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Offline Peter Jack

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2013, 02:28:05 PM »
This is the second place it's appeared on this site. With the dustbin type fairing it's illegal in any of the lsr organizations as far as I know. As Trent said above it's probably a bit of clever marketing by Polaris. The new Indians should be interesting. It's great that the American motorcycle industry is really expanding. I only hope that a few continue to stay around. I'd like to see some of the manufacturers try the entry level market.
 
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Offline tauruck

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2013, 03:01:51 PM »
I checked out the link to the motor. It's really good looking. It will sound as good hopefully.
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Offline Dead Roman

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2013, 09:44:10 PM »
They say its gonna run. Who cares where, i wanna see what it can do.
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Offline wobblywalrus

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2013, 01:42:17 AM »
That shape was what I originally wanted to build back in 2006.  There were no classes that it could run in as mentioned previously. Can something like that run at Cook's for time, only?
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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2013, 01:56:55 AM »
They could hang a sidecar on it a be legal.
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Offline 55chevr

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2013, 07:23:30 AM »
They could run at Cook's Shootout. 


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Offline AHG

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2013, 08:23:39 AM »
HOW ABOUT RWB (TIME ONLY) @ BUB MEET.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2013, 08:26:42 AM by AHG »
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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2013, 10:02:41 AM »
Here is what happens. Polaris books some time on the salt. Shoots a feel good commercial to roll out the new Indian powerplant. Said commercial invokes images of Burt and ties the new to the old. In the midst of the commercial shooting the happen to set a "record". They use the "record" in their pitch. They pull a segment of the metric cruiser and HD market over to buy into the "latest cool"


Disclaimer, I went to SDSU for advertising and was a copywriter. :-D
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Offline Buickguy3

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2013, 10:15:05 AM »
  Maybe they could Photoshop their "New" Indian power into this for show.
    Doug  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Offline Dean Los Angeles

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2013, 10:20:11 AM »
If you look at the sheet metal over the engine you see bumps to clear the engine.

Burt didn't have bumps in the sheet metal. There were holes, and the valve springs were visible.

The joke was that he didn't need a tach to shift, he just waited until the valves floated and thumped him in the chest.
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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2013, 11:55:45 PM »
It would be hard to run RWB at BUB on a fast bike.  We did that last year and at the end of the two mile, while accelerating, it is time to shut down.  It would be easy to roll off the throttle when on a runway or at Pendine where there are solid things in front of you.  At B'ville there are miles of clear track ahead and it is frustrating.   
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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2013, 01:48:09 AM »
jeb plans on running the spirit of munro at speedweek 2014 no particular class just time only would like to run over 200.
mike jellybean cook-Ferguson racing
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Offline Tman

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Re: 'Spirit of Munro' Bert Munro Special
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2013, 09:29:00 AM »
Quote from: jellybean on March 16, 2013, 01:48:09 AM
jeb plans on running the spirit of munro at speedweek 2014 no particular class just time only would like to run over 200.
mike jellybean cook-Ferguson racing

Thanks for the details.

And for folks who who don't know who Jeb is, he is a talented builder. I would post his website but it is worse than mine!!
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