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In 1967 a New Zealander Burt Munro to qualify to run in “Speed Week” set the fastest ever officially-recorded speed on an Indian Motor Cycle on the Bonneville Salt Flats of 305.89 km/h (190.07 mph). He set a class record of 285.44 km/h (183.59mph) in the under 1000cc class.
Burt set three world records, in 1962, 1966 and 1967.
Burt always had a need for speed.
Early life
Burt Munro’s twin sister died at birth. He grew up on a farm in Edendale east of Invercargill. As Burt’s family discouraged his endeavours outside of farm life, he became constantly bored with daily routine, and at the outbreak of World War I, he intended to go to war as soon as he was old enough, for a chance to see the world.
His interest in speed began at a young age, riding the family’s fastest horse across the farm, despite the complaints of his father. Trips via train to the port at Invercargill were a rare source of excitement, and the arrival of cars, motorcycles and aircraft added to Burt’s eagerness to join the world outside of his farm.
WWI ended before Burt was old enough to enlist. After this he became a professional speedway rider, but returned home to the family farm at the start of the Great Depression. Finding work as a motorcycles salesman and mechanic, he still raced motorcycles, and he rose to the top of the New Zealand motorcycle scene, racing on Oreti Beach and later in Melbourne, Australia.
Post World War II, Munro divorced his wife, and then gave up work to reside in a lock-up garage.
Challenges
The 1920 Indian (with half the exterior removed to show detail) that Burt Munro used to set his record in 1967
Burt Munro’s Indian Scout was very early off the production line, being only the 627th Scout to leave the American factory. The bike wasn’t a very fast model and, in original condition, had a top speed of 55 mph (89 km/h). So in 1926, Munro decided to start modifying his beloved Indian.
The biggest two challenges for Munro to overcome while modifying his bike were his lack of money and the fact that he worked full time as a motorcycle salesman. He would often work overnight on his bikes (he had a 1936 Velocette MSS as well), then in the morning, he would go to work, having had no sleep the night before.
Because Munro was a man of modest means, he would often make parts and tools himself instead of having them professionally built. For example, he would cast parts in old tins, make his own barrels, pistons, flywheels, etc. His micrometer (a precision measuring instrument) was an old spoke.
In its final stages, the Indian’s displacement was 950cc (as built it was 600cc) and was driven by a triple chain drive system.
The “Munro Special,” as Munro called his bike, is now owned by a motorcycle enthusiast on New Zealand’s South Island, and is on display at E. Hayes & Sons, Invercargill.
Bonneville Salt Flats and Speed Week
The Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah, are known worldwide for their many miles of flat, compacted salt, perfect for testing speed machines. During Speed Week, usually in mid-late August, vehicle enthusiasts from around the world go to Bonneville for a week of racing, and to see how fast their machines will go.
Munro travelled to Bonneville 10 times, the first time for “sightseeing” purposes. In the nine times he raced at Bonneville[citation needed], Munro set three world records, in 1962, 1966 and 1967. He also once qualified at over 200 mph (320 km/h), but that was an unofficial run, and was not counted.
Personal life
He had four children — Jon, June, Margaret and Gwen — with his wife Florence Beryl Martyn, whom he married in 1927 and divorced in the mid 1940s.
Having suffered from angina since the late 1950s, Munro suffered a partial stroke in 1977. After getting out of hospital, Munro found he had a lack of co-ordination. Frustrated, but wanting his motorcycles to remain in Southland, he sold both machines to a local dealer.
Munro died on 6 January 1978, age 78, of natural causes.
Courtesy of Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro
Well Burt had a stock standard motor cycle that had no hope of setting any world records so he set about tweaking that engine so that it would go faster. The trouble was that he was on a limited budget and didn’t have the money to throw at it like all those people he was competing with.
What’s this got do with your success in network marketing?
Your advertising budget is the motor cycle. Your sales and marketing system is the engine.
A motor cycle without a good engine will not work. But when you put a good engine in a good motor cycle, you have a workable combination.
When you feed customers to a sales and marketing system that can “power up,” you have a business.
If you have an effective sales and marketing pipeline that simply lacks customers, you have a stock standard motor cycle that you can’t set records with; just apply a powerful engine (read: sensible marketing budget) and it will power on. But if you have traffic that’s going to a lousy or non-existent sales and marketing pipeline, you don’t have a business. You have a money pit.
The lesson to learn is:
Money can bring you a lot of traffic, but it’s only valuable to the extent that your sales and marketing pipeline is designed to convert the traffic to leads and sales.
It’s about lead conversion. You grow your business by having a quality system.
As you’re starting your, marketing methods such as Google Adwords, Social Media, Articles and Videos etc. they are like a powerful engine that you can turn on and off instantly.
You can go and test your speed and qualify for the race ahead without getting eliminated and losing out on a lot of money, missing your momentum and stalling your business.
The lesson I learned the hard way out of this was that I was ending up as one of the 97% of network marketing casualties that wasn’t making any money but spending it on motivational tapes made by the upline Diamonds, travelling 500 klms to rah rah meetings in capital cities and all the distributors that I signed up quit within weeks of joining.
Now this may or may not have been my fault, but when 97% of distributors in network marketing businesses fail I think that we have to look closely at the marketing systems that the distributors are operating under.
In the end I decided to look for a better method of building my network because at my age of 71 years I considered I didn’t have enough time left in my life to build it the old way and I was failing anyway.
Thank goodness I found CCPro before I really get too old!
Think of all those companies with their “old methods”, their useless replicated websites that are only good for ordering, their pills, their phone plans, their plastic wares, their empty promises, small checks and their fast-folding down lines.
97% of distributors have their stock standard engine explode in ball of flames under the pressure of competition and end up crashing and burning.
And you know what’s interesting? Some never see the engine failing and the crash coming.
Some never trace the reason and wonder why they’re not gaining enough speed and momentum in their business.
Our relatives and friends in network marketing are great people, hard workers, are
quietly digging themselves into a deeper hole as their company and its heavy hitters feed off their labour and dreams.
They are running all the way to the bank, with their fat bonus cheques.
While we continue to wonder how it is that a company can present as “an opportunity” something in which at least 97% of people will spend more than they earn. Not to mention the toll it takes on their self esteem, energy and lifestyle.
And the companies seem genuinely surprised when people claim the “motorcycle” they were sold, won’t even let them qualify for the race, because of the stock standard engine it has.
We on the inside, at CarbonCopyPRO, are never surprised.
What are you waiting for? Give yourself a powerful engine to drive your business.
Respectfully,
Your friend on the “inside”…
Barry White
