Isle of Mann TT

[foxfish]

Anyone watching the TT?
TV coverage is fantastic this year well if you can get ITV4 that is.
Amazing slow mo action, decent commentators & presenters.
Here is the official site Welcome to iomtt.com - The official Isle of Man TT website
Just wish I was there!

 

[robdigital]

Yeah its real exciting - makes me want to go for a ride! Oops maybe i should not have sold my bike last month, ohwell. Those guys and girls who do it are much braver/confident than i will ever be

 

[demasoni]

Saw this on TV a few times. I think it's so neat that the riders race on real roads. IMO much more realistic - I love the flames shooting out the exhaust of some of the bikes. Come to think of it, isn't another rider - the human powered kind - from the Isle of Mann (Mark Cavendish)?

 

[nz676]

Thats a pretty old race ive seen footage of the TT from way back in day amazing when they catch air and manage to keep on the road at 175 mph plus.We dont get it in canada unfortunetly so ill have to watch it on the interweb.

 

[fcallagy]

Amazing race and beautiful place as well. went there with 3 lads in 95 I was the only one witht a bike and did a couple of laps not on mad sunday but on other days. absoloutly mental spot. the guys that race there are unbelievable.

 

[Erik]

The ultimate sportbike racing series IMO. Unfortunately over here it's unseen for the most part, like the Dakar
I went to Moto GP last year- phenomenal, but the TT looks like the thing to see.

I fully intend on going to the Isle and seeing for myself someday!

 

[foxfish]

Eric the web site is still running some great vid clips....Welcome to iomtt.com - The official Isle of Man TT website
I just loved hearing the GP bike, it clocked 202mph on a demo lap

 

[Erik]

Thanks sir! I watched some of it last week and will get back on there.
PS I sent you a PM, overdue.

 

[Mr. X]

I watched the program with the 100 (or whatever) historic TT moments recently - incredible. What is the lap record now 120/130mph? Truly insane but brilliantly exciting, especially considering how tight/narrow/slow some of the corners are and the likelihood of death or serious injury. Much better than football

A guy who lived in the village here, used to ride there. I think he just rode the open days rather than racing. Even so, he twice wrote off motorbikes there, the first was a new Kawasaki z650, I think the second one was too, although he got into expensive, exotic custom racers (inherited money) - so it might have been one of those (one was called a Magnum something or other - the sort of bike featured in the centre pages of magazines with a model sprawled across the tank).

 

[foxfish]

Dangerous event - not many places in the world where you can expect several competitors to die whilst competing in a sport!

Here is one where the guy survived [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiKmPFo6xNA]YouTube - TT Bike Crash[/ame]

 

[Mr. X]

Nasty, particularly because he knew he was going to crash for quite a long time before it actually happened. I know the feeling - I bet he was thinking 20x faster than normal too.

They had an even more sickening one that that on the aforementioned TV show. The guy clipped some bales lining a wall at very high speed. Hard to tell which was which but the bike and rider got flown up and through the air sperately at much higher speed that the poor chap above. They ended up far down the road on the opposite side. It looked like he must surely have died but he lived. Apparently that was last TT he ever rode though - quite understandable.

 

[fcallagy]

The ultimate sportbike racing series IMO. Unfortunately over here it's unseen for the most part, like the Dakar
I went to Moto GP last year- phenomenal, but the TT looks like the thing to see.

I fully intend on going to the Isle and seeing for myself someday!

Erik if you really want to get close to the action come to northern ireland and the Ulster GP at Dundrod. At the IOM spectators are rightly back from the edge of the road as the Ulster GP is a smaller event you could literally touch them as they go by. ( i am not recommending doing this by the way) Similar speeds on smaller roads= even more insanity then the IOM.

My best at the IOM in 95 I think was coming down the hill at Creg na Baigh towards the hotel. i was on a 250 two stroke with a friend on the back, travelling far too fast and left the breaking far too late. One guy actually jumped behind the haybales. I managed the corner despite the speed not through any skill but simply because the bike was far better than I was a rider.White knuckles time.

 

[Erik]

White knuckles time.

No kidding! I'd love to come there too.

 

[foxfish]

As far as I can work out there were only 3 deaths this year!
I think that might even be some sort or record!
It appears that more stringent policing & a shortened unlimited mountain course resulted in very few accidents on Mad Sunday.