The Isle of Man TT 2016

MoBeats

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Anyone seen this event? This is where I live.
38 miles around the Isle of Man over a mountain circuit on actual roads.
It's covered by itv4 if anyone wants to watch it. The fecking mentalists get round it in 17 minutes.
This is practice week, actual racing starts on Saturday.
Micheal Dunlop set a 132.5 mph average lap tonight.
 
Single lane? Yeah, no duel carriageway on the circuit.
 
Great event, one of the best in motorsport imo. Sadly I can't see it being around much longer.

Is that a new lap record??
 
Absolutely the best experience I've ever had with my bike, went in 2011 or 2012 I think it was, the year the guy hit the crowd at the bottom of bray hill, absolutely stunning weather for 12 days.
I did 7 laps on my Ducati 1198, absolutely unbelievable over the mountain flat out, knee down on the wrong side of the road going past a parked police car was hilarious :lol:.

If you love bikes you HAVE to go to the tt, we stopped in a lovely self catering studio in the grounds of a big house about 50 yards up from the quarterbridge pub right on the track!

Awesome spectacle!
 
So there are people who live in Isle of Man then...I was under impression that only @brewlio and his mum live there.
 
11101 said:
Great event, one of the best in motorsport imo. Sadly I can't see it being around much longer.

Is that a new lap record??
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Not quite, 132.7, John McGuiness. Did a lap in 17 minutes 3 seconds.
They reckon that will get destroyed this year though, there's not been a year for ages with such good weather.
Some of the riders have had more than 20 laps under their belts in practice. That's unheard of before racing starts.
I can't see it stopping any time soon. With the tv coverage over the past few years it's got bigger and bigger. There's some high profile people been getting involved. Carl Cox has a team now, and Keith Flint has had one for years now.
 
MoBeats said:
Not quite, 132.7, John McGuiness. Did a lap in 17 minutes 3 seconds.
They reckon that will get destroyed this year though, there's not been a year for ages with such good weather.
Some of the riders have had more than 20 laps under their belts in practice. That's unheard of before racing starts.
I can't see it stopping any time soon. With the tv coverage over the past few years it's got bigger and bigger. There's some high profile people been getting involved. Carl Cox has a team now, and Keith Flint has had one for years now.
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I hope you are right. I just think one really bad year and all the anti-fun and health & safety crowd will be all over it.
 
I'm hoping Hutchy gets some big wins, can't help but like the guy, listening to him you'd think a moped would scare him!
 
In tonight's practice Hutchy has just unofficially broken the lap record, they call it unofficial because it's in practice not race conditions. He didn't even do it on a superbike, did it on a superstock.
132.8mph lap.
Insane.
 
Micheal Dunlop 16.52
A 134mph lap
Destroyed the lap record from a standing start!
 
Gutted I'm stuck in work today while my mates are watching, drinking and BBQing in the sun :(
 
Mark Higgins did a lap in the new Subaru. 126.97 average lap. :eek:
 
Barbara Charles said:
Two fatal accidents on Saturday?
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Yes, a 50 year old father of 4 and a 27 year old side car driver. Somehow the guy on the side car got away with just a broken ankle.

Quite a few more have died outside of the racing too. The roads are insane to drive on this time of year. Everyone treats it as a race track.
 
It's insane that they are still allowed to run this race, but they really are going to have to sort out the safety aspects more, although on a 'street' circuit, it's difficult in terms of run offs and tyre walls.

It's spectacular none the less, I'd love to go although I'm sure about mixing with all those oily bikers :smirk:
 
Sassy Colin said:
It's insane that they are still allowed to run this race, but they really are going to have to sort out the safety aspects more, although on a 'street' circuit, it's difficult in terms of run offs and tyre walls.

It's spectacular none the less, I'd love to go although I'm sure about mixing with all those oily bikers :smirk:
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You'd love it Colin.
 
Bikers aren't as dirty and hairy as they used to be!
 
A mixed day for the last of the week.
Took a while for the racing to get underway due to the cloak coving most of the island. Some great racing once they got going though. Another lap record 133.9 mph from Micheal Dunlop.
Sadly two competitors crashed and passed away too. Two separate incidents.
It makes the event sound barbaric when there's 4 competitors pass away in the one meeting. But in truth it's very rare for a competitor, never mind 4.
 
Another death (5 so far), former TT winner Ian Bell, died while racing with his son in the sidecar race. His son survived. :(

These guys scare the crap out me watching them scream past at up to 200mph on narrow roads with road furniture all over the shop. Saw at first hand the NW 200 in Portrush and feck me, it's scary what they do.
 

Micheal Dunlops record breaking lap, onboard. Crazy shit.
 
MoBeats said:

Micheal Dunlops record breaking lap, onboard. Crazy shit.
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Did he break that record on senior race day?

It's hard to believe a lot of the on board footage is real. It looks like a video game the speeds are so ridiculous. Have you seen this video?

The start down the cronk y voddy looks unreal. Incredibly close to running over the guy in front of him, who must come off at way over 100mph and smash into the barriers. Just insane.
 
Sied said:
Did he break that record on senior race day?

It's hard to believe a lot of the on board footage is real. It looks like a video game the speeds are so ridiculous. Have you seen this video?

The start down the cronk y voddy looks unreal. Incredibly close to running over the guy in front of him, who must come off at way over 100mph and smash into the barriers. Just insane.
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Yeah he did. It just got faster and faster as the week went on. The weathers never been so good for the full fortnight, perfect conditions.
Some of the footage is ridiculous. He was just inches away from taking that guy out.
 
MoBeats said:
Yeah he did. It just got faster and faster as the week went on. The weathers never been so good for the full fortnight, perfect conditions.
Some of the footage is ridiculous. He was just inches away from taking that guy out.
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After I posted that earlier I looked into it a little more. Cowton took part in the lightweight race 2 days later and came 10th with 112mph average. It's insane he wasn't seriously hurt for one, but to take part 2 days later at those speeds?! I think these guys are missing the part of the brain that processes fear.
 
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