Completely bloody bonkers

[TwoSeven]

I'd say that track racing is harder to do than road racing - if you are trying to get that last bit of performance out of the bike. In fact, to go quick on a track you have to be able to go beyond the capabilities of the bike to hit that last little 1%. You cant do that in road racing, there is simply too much that you cant do.

Thats not to mistake performance with danger. Yeah IOM is more dangerous than most if something goes wrong, but that doesnt make it difficult.

Track riders at the professional level have a budget designed to cater for them falling off quite a lot as they hit the limits of the machine and go beyond - street racing is pegged way back in performance simply because they have to reduce the risk.

Still i've always found street racing more exciting that circuit racing because it requires a slightly different set of skills.

[Juan]

Can't go for a lap just now, icy on the mountain!!!

tho......

[inlinefour]

Nothing better than sitting in the fount of the telly on a shitty day and watching some good racing.

[Brian d marge]

yeah did that one to,If I had the option I would have a bash at that track,of course it would have to be on a sidecar not one of those two wheeled death traps lol

Those side cars down bray hill are ..not quite all upstairs ...the lunch has been packed but a sandwich has been left out ....

The bumps down bray hill make the side cars turn almost 30 deg ( poss more ) to the direction of travel /...AND they are taking up 1/2 the road ....so theres even less run off

Sitting at the entrance to bray hill with a pint in me hand ,,whating the bike brake hard for the turn ,,was a very nice way to spend ones time

( mind you there was those two dirty young women , my mate and I manage to co oerce in ramsey

if you have the chance do it before they say its not health wise.....

Stephen

[speedpro]

I saw some motor-drive photos of the Lawrence brothers crash on their sidecar at the IOM, the one where it was broken into little pieces. A normal person would take up knitting after that and then only with particularly blunt needles.

The last I saw of both of them they had the sidecar all fixed, they were still limping really badly etc, the surgery was scheduled, and they were booked to go back.

Really nice guys, but you have to wonder.

[Ghost Lemur]

Can't go for a lap just now, icy on the mountain!!!

tho......

That's it rub it in...

Now if they'd move the island to somewhere warmer I'd move there in a flash.

[gav]

Stop dragging up these old threads FFS!!!! grrrrr
Oh what the hell, this is on now http://www.northwest200.fm/

[Kickaha]

I saw some motor-drive photos of the Lawrence brothers crash on their sidecar at the IOM, the one where it was broken into little pieces. A normal person would take up knitting after that and then only with particularly blunt needles.

The last I saw of both of them they had the sidecar all fixed, they were still limping really badly etc, the surgery was scheduled, and they were booked to go back.

Really nice guys, but you have to wonder.

Talked to them at the nationals they said they were flat in top just before the accident approx 140mph,slowed slightly for a series of corners and felt the bike get a bit loose and then it was all over,only took just over 5 mins for a helicopter with paramedics to get to the scene

The police wouldn't release the outfit to their crew as they were convinced it had been a fatal and it's the same bike they are now racing back here,errrr although they did say they had to get it straightened a bit

[VasalineWarrior]

How much does it cost to get over there? Wanna go (looks like the bikers mecca ) but gotta rob a bank

[T.W.R]

you should see mad sunday ( where the spectators have a blast around there) the mental fuckers try to replicate the race DUH!.
at least the racers know what their doing! ( apart from the dude in the early 80's who hit a horse at the crook at 140mph+ , cut the horse in half ouch!, well it wasn't his fault really, the horse wondered on to the track)
plus if you ever get the chance source the documentary on joey dunlop, Fuck where he raced in ireland was a goat track compared to the IOM circuit !
locally if you ever get down chch way have a hard fang around the summit rd that will put the willies up you
awesome spot for scrubbin new tyres in

and just think the IOM might be all over in 2007 ( fuck it!)