It's 1973 and young New Zeland couple Kim and Janeen have run away to Europe and joined the circus - the Continental Circus. They're part of a convoy of Grand Prix motorcycle riders travelling across Western and Eastern Europe competing for the World Championship Road Racing title. Love Speed and Loss is a love story set against the backdrop of 1970's Grand Prix racing. Kim Newcombe and his childhood sweetheart wife, Janeen, arrived in Berlin in 1969. Kim had a job working as an engineer for the Konig outboard marine company. Within a year he'd taken the outboard engine and turned it into a lightning-fast road racing motorbike thaat led the world championship. And so the couple's European adventure began ... On route to Europe Janeen bought a Super8 camera in Hong Kong and started documenting the couple's new life. Love, Speed & Loss opens with Janeen, now in her late fifties, watching the footage of her and Kim - young, in love and idealistic. The documentary moves between the 1970s and the present day as it reveals the couple's story, building toward the tragic event that saw Janeen's life change dramatically. A donation from the proceeds of the sale of this DVD will be made to Riders For Health (registered charity no. 1054565.) Love, Speed and Loss has been nominated at 3 prestigious film festivals, including the Aukland Film Festival 2005. "a very personal piece of contemporary history"
Klassic Motorrad Magazine "what lifts this documentary out of the ordinary is the wealth of Super8 footage Janeen took as they travelled from circuit to circuit"
"...the pathos is almost unbearable. But unforgettable too."
Simon Redfern, The Independent on Sunday "Commentary from his wife, Janeen, friends and fellow racers, plus period footage, give a great insight to the life of a truly gifted man."
Classic Bike "It's well worth a watch, the cine shoots take you right back to when motorcycle GP racing was for real heroes" Gold Wing
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