Went to see The World's Fastest Indian last night, and was very impressed. It's the story of a New Zealander who bought an Indian motorcycle in 1920 and continually improved it over 50 years, eventually taking it to Bonneville and winning the record for the world's fastest Indian motorcycle.

More information on Burt Munro can be found here, and mostly in his own words (the description of his various crashes is... harrowing.)

The movie uses a Teddy Roosevelt quote (The man in the Arena) which should be the BuildDiary.Net creed, and will definately make it to a tshirt soon... The first time I read this quote was in William Wynne's Corvair conversion manual, where it brought a tear to my eye.