Wayne Gardner demands immediate TT ban

[wharfy]

It is a sport. An unofficial sport the same as local touch club having fun.
Just because the athletes aren't 100% doesn't make it less of a sport.

What ?

Face it, you like bubble wrapping the situation..........you want everyone to race on the track. Because its not so scary there.

what crasherfromwayback said ....

[Shaun]

Its not a sport, its a past-time, recreation, a hobby. Sport involves competition, like your touch club. (Im hoping you mean touch rugby, not some other form of "touching")

Face it yourself - I'm not into bubble wrapping at all. I'm all for people racing on the streets, when they are closed for a race, just like IOMTT.

The bubble wrappers are the ones suggesting it should be canned. Sheesh.

Another intelligent post on this bullshit subject

[gatch]

In the interests of public safety, we should all hang our leathers up and race belt sanders instead.

[steveyb]

Deano said Road Riding, not Road Racing.

Road Riding is a pastime, Road Racing is a sport.

[steveyb]

In the interests of public safety, we should all hang our leathers up and race belt sanders instead.

Someones belt sander will run amock and sand off someones face or sumfik like that.

Then where will you be ay? ay?

You will need leathers and a helmet to prevent sander danger......

Non est carborundum iligitemi

hehehehehehehehe

[Deano]

In the interests of public safety, we should all hang our leathers up and race belt sanders instead.

Ever left the switch on but unplugged it from the wall ?

Then watch as someone plugs it in and freaks out when it fires into action ?

[gatch]

Non est carborundum iligitemi

hehehehehehehehe

Touche..

Ever left the switch on but unplugged it from the wall ?

Then watch as someone plugs it in and freaks out when it fires into action ?

Only with a 5" grinder, did it to myself..

[wharfy]

Nope, not at all.

I'm talking about public perception (of which you just gave us a stirling example of your perception of Rugby boofheads).

NOT just a public perception but measurable effect - Womens Refuge request for safe house accommodation goes up when the AB's lose. Domestic violence is NOT restricted to "Rugby boofheads" but permeates ALL levels of NZ society, overwhelmingly perpetrated BY men AGAINST women & children - Abusers take out their frustrations on women & children because they can. It is about power and control.

[Ivan]

Yes - the public are stupid enought to associate a full on well established race with a few guys doing the coro loop !

Road riding is not a sport - maybe that's half of our problem - too many treating it as sport.

100% agree here man standing on the rimutaka hill at car crashes ive seen and heard this i remember stopping 2 bikes as we had a close up while we cleared the road that a bike caused and when i was getting the message to let them through and open the lane up they were revving up like it was the start of a race and when i said you can go they took of like bats out of hell like the rimutakas has to be raced cause you have a r1 or daytona or cbr and ive stood on the hill at other points and you can hear the bikes screaming the whole way up then when they get through they are gone at a million miles an hour much like leaving the servo here in town saturday mornings ive spent there watching thous wheelying off out of town like its a race track

to many people think roads like this are the track and this a sport and racing gets a bad name really pisses me off cause theTT is a well organised event roads are closed yet people try to use these fucktards on the road as a example

[Ivan]

It is a sport. An unofficial sport the same as local touch club having fun.
Just because the athletes aren't 100% doesn't make it less of a sport.

Face it, you like bubble wrapping the situation..........you want everyone to race on the track. Because its not so scary there.

go clean up the mess after a accident and it changes your ideas on this completly seeing broken bones and skin ripped off aint nice

[Crasherfromwayback]

seeing broken bones and skin ripped off aint nice

Especially when it's yours!!!

[Mental Trousers]

I'm tempted to move this thread to PD.

Anyone who thinks they know better should watch TT3D. Right at the start John McGuinness is telling the camera he does the lawns, tidies up and takes care of all the bits and pieces so there's none of the annoying little things for his wife to do if he doesn't come back. Connor Cummings and Hutchy both smashed up from crashes but looking forward to next year, Bridget Dobbs saying she had no regrets about all the years Dobsy raced there.

These people are fully informed and well aware of the possible consequences. So anyone who thinks they know better, who thinks they have the right to tell those people what they can and can't do should really STFU before someone chainsaws the legs off their high horses.

[Latte]

I'm tempted to move this thread to PD.

Anyone who thinks they know better should watch TT3D. Right at the start John McGuinness is telling the camera he does the lawns, tidies up and takes care of all the bits and pieces so there's none of the annoying little things for his wife to do if he doesn't come back. Connor Cummings and Hutchy both smashed up from crashes but looking forward to next year, Bridget Dobbs saying she had no regrets about all the years Dobsy raced there.

These people are fully informed and well aware of the possible consequences. So anyone who thinks they know better, who thinks they have the right to tell those people what they can and can't do should really STFU before someone chainsaws the legs off their high horses.

100% Agree, well, except for the PD bit - healthy discussion is fun.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I'm tempted to move this thread to PD.

So anyone who thinks they know better, who thinks they have the right to tell those people what they can and can't do should really STFU before someone chainsaws their legs off.

Don't do that!

Do that.

[Oscar]

I'm tempted to move this thread to PD.

You are moving a thread because you don't agree with one side of the argument?
I think you've got moderator mixed up with megalomaniac .