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Love, Speed & Loss for Melb
Love, Speed and Loss, a documentary profile of visionary New Zealand motorcycle designer and racer Kim Newcombe has been selected to feature at a leading international documentary film festival in Melbourne on February 19th.Beginning Saturday 11 February and running until Tuesday 21 February 2006, Real Life on Film is an annual film festival and market for documentaries selected from Commonwealth countries. This year’s festival coincides with the Commonwealth Games and is presented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as an exclusive film as part of the Games cultural programme.
The topic of the documentary, motorcycle engineer and racer Kim Newcombe, was the first New Zealander to win a prestigious 500cc World Grand Motorcycle Prix. He did this in 1973 on a bike he built himself using a German Konig marine outboard engine. He was assisted by Melbourne engineer Rod Tingate who has spent thirty years building a replica of the original Konig machine.
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