Love Speed and Loss

Its 1973 and young New Zealand couple Kim and Janeen have run away to Europe and joined the circus - the Continental Circus. Theyre 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 1970s 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 hed taken the outboard engine and turned it into a lightning-fast road racing motorbike that led the world championship. And so the couples European adventure began. On route to Europe Janeen bought a Super8 camera in Hong Kong and started documenting the couples new life. Love, Speed and Loss opens with Janeen watching the footage of her and Kim - young, in love and idealistic. The documentary moves between the 1970s and the present day as it r