It broke a record which had stood for 28 years, but there's more to come, possibly at a New Zealand Land Speed Records Association event understood to be being planned for February next year, at Goudies Rd, the event venue which has about 7km of straight, flat tarseal.
Rands-Trevor grew up riding bikes on the dirt roads and tracks of Great Barrier Island, before moving into Auckland to work.
But his affair with the higher speeds and records started when partner Pippa Harris, from Wairoa, was heading with family to the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where Chris Harris had set a car speed record in 2006, and where Munro set his under 1000cc World record of 295.453 km/h (183.59 mph) in 1967 (a story now enshrined in 2005 movie The World's Fastest Indian).
The family, now based in Bay View, had often told him there was "a space in the container if I wanted to chuck a bike in there".
"It snowballed from there," he said. "I eventually managed to source a Kawasaki ZX10 at a good price and realised that, with a few tweaks, it could be competitive. "
The first bike he took over in 2012 was a 2008-model.
"I had done much development as I could with that bike," he said. "Then I got the newer-generation bike, the 2011-model Kawasaki that I'm still running today."
He's been doing events in New Zealand for quite a while and competed at every event at Goudies Rd since the inception of the New Zealand Landspeed Association, and has also fronted at the East-West Sprints in South Wairarapa.
The record 2 months ago was the first time the team had combined with Motorcycling New Zealand to have a crack at ratifying national records.
"Prior to this it hasn't been official and really just for bragging rights," he said.
"My bike probably only puts out as much power as the latest generation bikes and it's had a huge amount of work done to it, tweaking it over the years.
"I enjoy doing the work on the bike as much as anything else, particularly working in the shed, mates around with a couple of beers and pizza.
"But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and getting those speeds higher.
"You do have to build up to it a little bit when you head out onto the tarseal.
"For me, I've been doing it for a few years now, but you do remain very conscious of your surroundings and the potential for it all to go pear-shaped. You have to be on the ball. As with all riding, you're trying to look as far down the course as you can. It's all coming at you pretty quick."
The record has now been ratified by motorcycle sport's governing body in New Zealand, Motorcycling New Zealand.
The previous record for the 1050cc flying quarter-mile was 187.96mph, set on December 4, 1993, by Christchurch's Jon White, riding a Britten motorcycle.
Missing the 200mph goal by just 0.069km/h is just one of the frustrations, with conditions needing to be "pretty much perfect". Conditions at Bonneville have been right on just 2 of his 5 trips there, and Reporoa speeding has also been called off on at least one of his trips to the magnet-point between Taupo and Rotorua.
It's also not something where he can prepare on the open highway, with speed limits of 100km/h.
Simple answer to the obvious question, of whether he has ever been ticketed for speeding, is: "Yes."
– Additional reporting by Doug Laing
