Racing mayor to continue
PA Gisborne Gisborne’s motor-cycle racing mayor, Mr Hink Healey, is not giving up the sport even though he is nursing a broken collarbone, his worst injury since taking up the sport in 1950. Mr Healey, aged 59, suffered the injury while competing in a classic motor-cycle meeting at Taupo recently. He said the injury,
while painful, would not prevent him carrying out his role as Mayor. “It was a freak accident,” he said “I was only doing 15 to 25 km/h at the time. “I had just finished the third race, in which I was third. I went through a tight left-hander and braked hard for a hairpin. The forks did not come up, they stayed compressed. The front guard
caught the fairing and I flipped over. “When I got in the ambulance my brother, Snow, was in it already. He came from Auckland to act as my pusher and had tom a hamstring.
"I am not going to retire. I have not broken a bone since I started in 1950,” said Mr Healey, who races a 1957 Norton 600 twin machine.
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