Youtube video -IOM TT tank slapper

[Katman]

Racers please correct me if Im wrong

Don't worry, Mark will be along shortly to tell you you're wrong.

[Sparky Bills]

I M H O
the sparks are definatly from his toe plate.
too far away from the bike to be the rim, plus there is no tyre smoke or marking of the road which would happen if the rim /tyre were that far distorted to produce sparks, and I feel that if it wass, there would have been no recovery.
How many bikes in this race would use steel rims anyway?
Alloy wheels would be the standard?
Racers please correct me if Im wrong

Alloy or magnesium... Even Carbon.
And its not Northwest 200 sorry. Olivers something er-rather.

[barty5]

in slow mo his front wheel is off the ground well before as he come domn the hill, Then hit a lot harder than the others get air borne back steps out. As other have said try trail bike this happen all the time back steps out front stays on same heading rear flicks from side to side. Guess the big difference here is kinda like 100kph slow little less trickier to keep under control off road. Have to take yah hat off to him for keepin that on track.

[skidMark]

Regardless of what skid says, the guy is still a great rider (the dude in the clip, not skidmark, i thought i should clarify that)

(and your post was on topic)

never said he wasnt a great rider i just commented on what i saw / thought had happened, i couldve just said...

Wow how did he save that.

But that wouldn't have got you lot upset...

thanks...

[Mikkel]

Here's a full lap of the Mount...lots of bumps near the end of the lap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQQz...eature=related

Wow, nice track - although there are a lot of places where you really really don't want to come off!

I believe the tankslapper in the first video took place around the part of the track at 1:45. The camera moves around a "little" bit as well on that bit

[Shaun]

That dude is a legend in my book, reckon he was charging a bit harder than the others, fully bottoming out the suspension just before the next bump causing the rebound in the rear to kick the arse out as he gets air.
He kept the front pointing where he wanted to go and let the rear catch up!
Awesome save!!
My 2c

Fully agree with what you say here about it dude- Guess the person who posted this thread, does not relly know how to ride a bike EH

[Matt Bleck]

Here's a full lap of the Mount...lots of bumps near the end of the lap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQQz...eature=related

Fark me!! That ain't a road it's a driveway!!!

[marty]

lol help im being "e-thugged"

that would be 'thegged' then?

[Boob Johnson]

that would be 'thegged' then?

lol that's the one

never said he wasn't a great rider i just commented on what i saw / thought had happened, i could've just said...

Wow how did he save that.

But that wouldn't have got you lot upset...

thanks...

More like..........SM: I shot my mouth off before I fully thought about it & let my over inflated ego talk


Sounds awfully familiar to the vast majority of your posts Sparky

[Mikkel]

Let's just give Mark a break - he did after all admit in the first thread that it was beyond him...

[Manxman]

What I wanted to say in my first post was : "That's not a tankslapper......THIS is a tankslapper."

...btw, this is the IOM, and most likely a repost but with a different angle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiKmP...eature=related

[MIXONE]

Fuck how lucky was the flag marshall.The only thing that saved him getting cleaned up was the gutter deflecting the bike.

[Manxman]

Fuck how lucky was the flag marshall.The only thing that saved him getting cleaned up was the gutter deflecting the bike.

Yup.

After watching this a few times, I made the following observations:
1) at 7secs the marshall is already running toward the accident...and keeps running to aid the downed rider with a complete disregard for his own safety. That's an incredibly brave thing to do IMO.
2) at 10secs, there's a photographer who (shockingly) is prepared to take pics of someone who is potentially fatally injured (he wasn't -it's Paul Orritt, who recovered with 'just' a few broken bones).
3) at 35secs you get an idea of how fast they hit the bottom of Bray Hill (DJ reckoned that he could do about 170mph there...)
4) at 44secs Orritt glances off the wall after he came off. If he had come off just a little further up the road (like 5m) he would have entered a driveway, which has no 'glancing' effect and the stop would have been rather sudden.
5) at 56secs, the marshall is simultaneously a) attending Orritt b) kicking debris off the race line and c) waving down the next rider. Bloody hero.
6) at 1min, a rider passes through, then tanks it back up to racing speed...that's racing I guess: get on with the job with the assurance that the man down is being attended to.
7) at 1min 3secs, the marshall looks back at that rider as if to say 'slow the feck down'...not sure?
8) at 1min 20secs we hear Geoff Cannell, who along with Peter Kneale were the voices of the TT when I was a lad. (Both have since passed on).

Bottom Line: that marshall deserves a bloody big DB. (Not to mention a medal) It's a big ask to be first on the scene to that sort of accident, not knowing what the rider's condition is, and keep calm and direct the next riders safely through the debris, and and and..

TT marshalls have been much maligned of late (possibly with good reason in certain situations), but this demonstrates what the majority are like. Keep up the good work fellas

Shoot, I've taken this right off topic - sorry. Back to the original tankslapper. D'oh.