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Isle of Man TT
LBMEFM - 5/6/11 at 06:09 AM

I have been a race fan all my life but one event every year never fails to amaze me and that's the Isle of Man TT. How is it possible to take a bike around the roads with kerbs, brick walls, lamp posts and housing estates with cars in the drive, through villages, down high streets and over mountain passes of the island at an average speed of130mph + for around 1hr.45mins. The level of concentration and sheer strength to hold on to one of those superbikes is unbelievable. If you not into bikes I just urge you to tune into ITV4 any evening this week and watch any onboard footage it's unbilievable. Are these down to earth modest guy's such as McGuiness, Anstey, Martin, Dunlop and the old master Rutter etc fearless or just crazy, whichever it is it's absolutely brilliant. Barry

mangogrooveworkshop - 5/6/11 at 08:05 AM

Probaly the last of the deadmen walking challenges in the world before the elf en safety boys get their claws into it.
Heck they even outlawed rolling a large cheese down a hill.... with the owners chasing it.
TT is one of those last events.

theconrodkid - 5/6/11 at 08:06 AM

watched it last night,gutted for Guy

smart51 - 5/6/11 at 08:25 AM

so that's why there were so many bikes on the M6 yesterday.

MK9R - 5/6/11 at 08:34 AM

Its unbelievable how any of them are still alive, its amazing how they can control those machines at such speeds for such a legth of time. I've been over to watch a couple of times in the past and its a brilliant brilliant expirience, I urge everyone to go over and see it in the flesh, you can get so close to the track, non of the health and safety issues you fall foul of at every other event in the world! I really have to get back there next year, I think I'll book my ferry tickets now for next year!

Blackbird Rush - 5/6/11 at 08:43 AM

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Originally posted by theconrodkid
watched it last night,gutted for Guy


Ditto, he was going so well and looked throughly hacked off when he got off the bike.

Amazing the speed and control those boys have.

cliftyhanger - 5/6/11 at 08:51 AM

I was over there a few years ago, and it was the "classic" racing weekend, Still pretty busy, though nowhere near what the TT is like (friend lives on the island)
What I enjoyed was the way you just wandered up, watched for a bit, then popped ito one of the local's gardens where they were selling tea and fantastic homemade cakes and all for charity Completely different ethos to just about every other event I have watched.

daniel mason - 5/6/11 at 09:15 AM

big john was supreme once again. but there was so many bike faliures.guy was well pi##ed off when he set off wandering through the fields!