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Absolute Nutters...

lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,937
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Looking forward to watching this year's racing but to me the people who even partake in this event deserve immense credit. For those that don't know what it's like there are plenty of on camera angles to see what these riders go through. Even watching those shots scare the life out of me, as I said **** nutters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SZUaA6eak
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,600
    BIG tt fan. Been a couple of times. Been watching itv4 coverage leading up to first race..your vid is good but there are others much better at conveying the speed..mc guinness & hickman?
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,937
    Glenelg said:

    BIG tt fan. Been a couple of times. Been watching itv4 coverage leading up to first race..your vid is good but there are others much better at conveying the speed..mc guinness & hickman?

    It was just a quick search to find something to accompany the post. I've seen other on board cameras which actually scare me as to the speeds they do.
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,600
    @lucy4 yeah, agree....mental. It seems like a drug to the riders..think "average" speed record is 135 mph! Means most of race is run 200+.
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  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 9,056
    Sorts the Men from the Boys no room for error/ have to know the track like Dunlop Mc Guinness doing it for years. One mistake is all it takes engine or Mech failure to send you into the wall and the next casualty ..... no OAP home for theses guys.
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  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,586
    I saw some clip on Facebook earlier of one of the Dunlops riding around. I say saw - he flew past and was gone in milliseconds. Then I had a look at his wikipedia page and half of his family have died riding those bikes, yet he still persists. I'm not sure whether to say he's nuts or got big balls or what. He's probably all of those things and a lot more.

    If he loves doing it then absolute fair play to the man.
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,600
    kapowblamz said:

    I saw some clip on Facebook earlier of one of the Dunlops riding around. I say saw - he flew past and was gone in milliseconds. Then I had a look at his wikipedia page and half of his family have died riding those bikes, yet he still persists. I'm not sure whether to say he's nuts or got big balls or what. He's probably all of those things and a lot more.

    If he loves doing it then absolute fair play to the man.

    That would be Michael..brother William, father Robert + uncle Joey ALL killed racing.

    Joey dunlops wiki page is worth read..
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,623

    Talking of which...


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/65783005
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,937
    Tikay10 said:


    Talking of which...


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/65783005

    Did the rider behind stop and claim it as roadkill as allowed in folk law ?
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,686
    Just a few thoughts on the T.T.

    Can't believe its 15 years on Monday since my Cousin was killed on the Mountain section of the course whilst taking a "fast one".

    Apparently, the powers that be have decided that this year there is no "Mad Sunday" and that the Mountain will be kept 2 way with speed limits in force with the exception of official practice and race events.

    Mad Sunday was every fans Nirvana, the one time when the Mountain was as it is on race days, one way and no speed limit and you really got to see how fast you and your mates actually were. Yes there were tragedies, yes there were miraculous escapes and yes sometimes getting around slower riders was like having a mobile chicane permanently there. That WAS the attraction, the appeal, the addiction. "Am I good enough to ride a really quick, by laymans standards, lap".

    Well, it would appear that the Nanny State are going to kill the tradition off. For many The I.O.M T.T. without Mad Sunday is like The National without The Chair or Beechers, St Andrews without The Road Hole, The Cup Final without Abide with Me.

    Why do we choose to ride very fast motorcycles at insane speeds. Because we can, and the very best race in the fastest, most exhilarating events T.T., North West 200, Southern 100, Macau, Scarborough et el.

    Track racing is great, but road racing is the ultimate test of man, machine and balls.

    Watch these guys and enjoy the spectacle and I'll leave you with my cousins favourite saying.

    "The faster I go, the more I smile"

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