New Zealand - Motorcycles - Triumph GP Motorcycle - Syd Jensen on his Triumph GP Motorcycle, racing past his parents house (HW Jensen) on the Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road. Syd Jensen was a very successful pilot, aircraft builder, businessman, engineer, racing driver and motorcyclist. He started racing motorbikes in the 1940's competing very successfully in New Zealand, UK and Europe. By the 1950's he had started to race cars. As a business man he ran a bike shop in Palmerston north, and then owned a car sales and BMW import company. - 1940s 2020's Top Ten Best Selling Motorcycles In New Zealand 1. Yamaha Tenere 700 - 203 2. Suzuki DR650SE - 191 3. Kawasaki Ninja 400 - 153 4. Yamaha YZF-R3 - 150 5. Harley-Davidson Street 500 - 145 6. Suzuki GSX150 Gixxer - 135 7. Suzuki GSX250 - 120 8. KTM Duke 200 - 109 9. Royal Enfield Interceptor and Yamaha MT-03 - 107 10. Honda Shadow 150 - 95 2020's Top Five Best Selling Mopeds In New Zealand 1. TNT Roma - 322 2. Suzuki UZ50 - 242 3. Forza Ciclone - 187 4. Forza Capri - 111 5. Moped Yiben YB50QT - 84 *All figures are based on sales data published by the New Zealand Motor Industry Association, January 11 2020. (Reference: https://www.onthrottle.co.nz/post/2020-makes-for-best-year-for-new-zealand-motorcycle-sales-in-a-decade) NEW ZEALAND'S TOP-SELLING ROAD MOTORCYCLES OF 2019 20. SUZUKI DL650XA V-STROM 650XT ABS 19. YAMAHA YZF-R3A K 18. KEEWAY CAFE RACER 152 17. HARLEY-DAVIDSON SOFTAIL 19 SPORT GLIDE 16. BMW R 1250 GS 15. KTM 690 ENDURO R 14. SUZUKI DR650SE 13. YAMAHA MT-03 LAJ 12. YAMAHA MT07LA K 11. SUZUKI GSX150 DXA GIXXER 10. HONDA CMX500 REBEL 09.ROYAL ENFIELD INTERCEPTOR 650 08. KTM 790 ADVENTURE R 07.SUZUKI GN125H 06. HONDA GLC150SH 05. ROYAL ENFIELD CLASSIC 04. KAWASAKI EX400G L 03. YAMAHA YZF R3 AJ2 02. HARLEY-DAVIDSON STREET 19 STREET 500 01. SUZUKI GSX150 FDZA GIXXER (Reference: read more at https://www.onthrottle.co.nz/post/the-numbers-are-in-and-2019-s-most-popular-bike-is) George Leslie Adkin - A self-taught scholar with the skills and integrity of a professional. - Most of his working life he farmed with little profit or pleasure. - His real interest was in geology and archaeology, and in the back room of his small farmhouse he worked late making meticulous records of his work. - He was born in Wellington on 26 July 1888, the first of seven children of William George Adkin, a draper, and his wife, Annie Denton. - His mother's family were keen naturalists and photographers. - In 1889 the Adkins secured 100 acres in the ballot for sections in the Levin village settlement, although it was some years before they settled on the land. - During two years as a boarder at Wellington College in 1903–4 Leslie developed an enthusiasm for collecting plants and rocks and learned to process his own photographs. - When he returned to work on the farm he began a diary that would be kept to within a month of his death: an account of farm, community and family life, and a record of his travels and scientific observations. - Adkin made many expeditions into the Tararua Range, including, in 1909, the first recorded crossing from Levin to Masterton. - On these trips, and in his daily work, his imagination was fired by geological processes, and he constantly struggled to understand how the Horowhenua lowlands and the ranges had been formed. - His grandfather, George Denton, had introduced him to the Wellington Philosophical Society, and he delivered a paper about the lowlands to one of its meetings in 1910. - His second paper (1911) recorded his belief – in contradiction to accepted wisdom – that five high Tararua valleys had been formed by glaciation... (Reference: read more at https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4a3/adkin-george-leslie) Image source:Syd Jensen – Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North 1940s, Attribution + NonCommercial, Palmerston North City Library https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/0ac00aba-f03c-4481-bf1f-5e1cd76f021c