Having hopped up the motor with a hot carb, the rest of the bike couldn’t hack it, with the wheel bearings collapsing at 80mph. Miraculously, Perry walked away virtually uninjured but the frame was bent and the petrol tank split, so he flogged the parts and forgot all about it.
The bits of bike stayed in circulation in the custom motorcycle scene and nearly 50 years later, Roland got the opportunity to buy the frame and reunite his dad with the Puffer with the goal of rebuilding the machine from scratch together.
At first they looked at using a stock frame, considering the original frame had been badly crashed, but after lots of checking, measuring and fiddling they came to the conclusion it could be rescued.
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First Kiwi Indian woman officer promoted to senior sergeant in NZ police
First Kiwi Indian woman officer promoted to senior sergeant in NZ police
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 9, 2021, 16:23 IST
Sidhu had joined New Zealand Police in 2004. Photo: Facebook/Wellington Punjabi Women Association Inc
The first Kiwi Indian woman police officer, Mandeep Kaur Sidhu, has been promoted to senior sergeant in the New Zealand Police and was presented with her badge by police commissioner Andrew Coster at a ceremony in Wellington recently, according to her post on social media.
She had joined New Zealand Police in 2004 and in her previous role was as an ethnic people’s community relations officer at Henderson Police Station in Waitemata. In her new role, she will move to the police headquarters in Wellington. Kaur moved to New Zealand from Malwa district in Punjab as an immigrant at 26, and it was her childhood dream to become a police officer. According to her profile on the New Zealan