One of my best friends was Peter Bay Neigbourg, from Invercargill, NZ.
He is Dead now. He lived in my home with my children. We always had bikes. His favourite was his YZ 465 G(as well as other roadies). We worked together in many jobs, a couple of hotels for a while, on Friday and Saturday nights. He always had me covered. We worked all the time and dreamt we would race all the time.
He used to tell me about Bert Munroe, "BEFORE THE MOVIE", super achiever, a man of total conviction to going fast on motorcycles. “Fastest man about” “done Nz Proud”….I used say “Shiiitt Kiwi”, and he used to arch right up. God he was proud. Old mate Pete “moved on” right before the movie.
Naturally, I love that movie, I hold it close, just like “On any Sunday” and “Naturally Free”.
A Man, that just kept wanting to improve his machine, he had a great adventurer, gave a women a smile, when he was on the way to smoke em all, at the Bonneville salt flats. Well what do you know Pete? You weren’t bullshitting me after all Brother.
Well, carton is all gone now Pete, so I think I will climb in to bed. And pass out while I watching Bert, again, goodnight Mate.
