I just love how everyone becomes happier for their interaction with Burt - even the policeman, pulling him over just sees an old guy on an empty road and immediately relaxes. It's a lovely feel-good film.

Cop: Do you know why i stopped you?

Him: because I let you

One of the most underrated films ever

My favorite motorcycle movie of all time.
The skill of this man was off the hook.
He was a genius.
He cast his own pistons in beer cans !!
Nuff said

As my grandfather would say " give a Kiwi some #8 wire and he can build anything" .

“About 150/160 miles per hour.”
“Yeah that sounds about right.”

The worlds fastest kiwi.
God bless you Burt Monroe.

When that cop arrives. That scene only misses that sopnge bob reference. A few years later...

I am a little ashamed to say that I can't make it through this movie without crying. The scene where he finally gets to Bonneville and recounts all the past legends gets me every time.

I'm nearly 40, worked construction all my life, lost family and friends to disease and suicide and never shed a tear. But do you think I can get through a movie about a Kiwi taking his bike to Bonneville. Damn you Hopkins! 😂

* Interweb please don't tell anyone

I love this scene from the film. Munro clocked at 95 ml/h (152 km/h), and then just rapidly accelerating leaving the other cars far behind. It's a great movie.

The opening  in the Garage  and the shelf marked Sacrafices to the Gods of Speed  stuck in my mind.🏁🏍💨

I got a special edition of this on DVD which included a mini-documentary about the real Burt Munro, including some interview material. It's only when you see and hear the real Burt that you realize just how perfectly Hopkins portrayed him.

fantastic movie, weirdly underrated

Wonderful movie and no need to be a MC lover to see it. Anthony Hopkins is stupendous as usual in this role.

My top complement for a film is to own it, and I have this one. I also read Munro's book by the same title, in which he details his life and travels to the US (he spent way more time here than the movie implies). In it, he mentions visiting Nolan White, a fellow Bonneville racer, in Del Mar, California, not 2 miles from where we grew up. When we were growing up, my brother worked at a small business and mentioned seeing a very long and low vehicle, next door, under a cover, and wondered if it might have been a Bonneville car. Said the guy who lived there was named White. It wasn't until reading the book that it hit me who White was, and that Burt had been at his home right near us. Pretty crazy reading a book about some far off adventures, only to discover just how close we were to one of the situations described in it. A shame that we didn't get to meet either of these find gentlemen.

Another very entertaining bit from the book was when Munro wanted to see the test aircraft, the X15. He was driving past Edwards AFB and decided to stop in, driving in through a back gate that was apparently unguarded. The guards caught him, but Burt being Burt, and thanks to his motorcycle article in Popular Mechanics, that the commander had read, Burt got his wish. They let him look at the plane, sit in the pilot's seat, and took a picture. Pretty effing cool, that.

Oh, and one last bit. I had some tubing bent up for a car project, and had it done at a place in San Diego called Autopower. I briefly talked with the owner, Rick White, and had no idea who his dad was. I also noticed a very long and low vehicle under a cover against a wall. Small world.

love the sound of that engine howling at wide open throttle.

I love motorcycles, I love my motorcycles, I love movies about motorcycles
This movie is simply one of those flicks that becomes a favorite.
I wish my mom was here to watch with me. If she loved a river runs through it, than this too
She would have. Love & miss you mom.

Officer:I've been waiting for you all day son

MC Rider: I know I hurried up as fast as I could

Whats even more impressive is that dude sitting in the back of the ute at 60MPH at 0:55 with a hat still on and his head.

Thank you for your passion Burt Monro and Anthony Hopkins for yet another brilliant performance! If you have gasoline in your blood, this movie is pure gooze bumps but it is a brilliant lesson on being passionate about what you do for everybody. RIP Burt.