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Balls to the wall

Posted: March 3rd, 2012, 5:41 am
by Tharrell
Incredible.


Posted: March 3rd, 2012, 7:30 am
by britincali
If all goes to plan im gonna be there this year :)

Posted: March 3rd, 2012, 8:41 am
by Rhino89523
So Burly, every time I see them get those baby tank slaps a little bit of my couch gets sucked up.

Posted: March 3rd, 2012, 12:22 pm
by jbsleddin
:shock: Sick bastards with huge balls. :cool: My favorite part was watching the sheep runs their asses off after getting spooked. :lol:

Posted: March 4th, 2012, 5:50 pm
by freeride588
That guy that fell at the 1:25 mark had to have gotten seriously injured or worse.

Posted: March 4th, 2012, 5:54 pm
by britincali
Average of 2 deaths per year :cry:

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 7:08 am
by hoofarted
jbsleddin wrote:...watching the sheep runs their asses off after getting spooked. :lol:

Brit musta been nearby. :lol:

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 8:19 am
by AlisoBob
freeride588 wrote:That guy that fell at the 1:25 mark had to have gotten seriously injured or worse.
Thats Connor Cummins....


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Lucky to be alive...

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 9:15 am
by britincali
Unbelieveable hes alive and not in a wheelchair...

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 10:33 am
by AlisoBob
Only shoulder and elbow damage ( from hitting the cobblestone wall)

:shock:

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 12:29 pm
by Kuma
that guy was so lucky he bounced over that wall

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 12:32 pm
by AlisoBob
Kuma wrote:that guy was so unlucky he bounced through that wall

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 6:44 pm
by reef
I asked my wife if I could do this race for our Honeymoon. She's from the UK (Southport), so the part about convincing her we would be close to her family didn't fly.

Oh, and hell no I wouldn't do that race even if she said yes.

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 7:18 pm
by AlisoBob
5 deaths per mile. The deadlist race in the world.

Posted: March 5th, 2012, 8:47 pm
by britincali
southport is a 30 min flight or a 2 hr ferry ride from IOM.....

Posted: March 13th, 2012, 4:32 pm
by Gravel Scratcher
The oldest motorised event in the world still going strong. IOM is on the bucket list for me, either the main event in
june or the Manx GP later in the year. I like the look of the Manx GP because it runs all the older bikes including the strokers :wink:
Heres my other toy, a tribute bike to the greatest comeback all time
Mike Hailwood at IOM 1978. Mike saved Ducati from extinction with that win.
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Posted: March 13th, 2012, 4:59 pm
by Gravel Scratcher
If you haven't already seen it you need to check out a 3D movie called "TT closer to the edge". The panoramic footage from a chopper of the race footage is un 'fuckin' real.

Posted: March 13th, 2012, 5:04 pm
by other
My mother actually lived in Bride, on the IOM, and despite constant begging, threatening , sulking, whatever, I couldn't con her into getting me a 'local' entry.( entries were seriously oversubscribed, and there was usually a 3 or 4 year wait to get in) Done a few hot laps around there on a stock R1 though, and even that was frightening ! TT week is like a bike circus, and an awesome spectacle, and the locals all get behind it. Even the old biddies are discussing form as they wait in the supermarket checkout queue's ! We could sit in deckchairs in the front yard (behind a solid stone wall !) and watch the bikes howl past at around the 240kph mark, fkn wild ! Unfortunately, mother has moved back to the mainland now, so I've lost that option to spectate front row ! Damn !