Topic: For the Dragracers that think Roadracers are pu$$ies....

[MRieck]

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH♛✔ ★HD★ 322kmh-200mph Street Race ✔ 'ISLE of MAN' TT   There are some great scenes in this.

[Sam Green Racing]

I always thought it was the other way round Mike,  awesome video none the less.

Sam.

[Sam Green Racing]

took me a while to find this clip on facebook but I knew it was only in the last few days.
This is from Ian King, European Top Fuel Champion.

Ian King Guy Martin wanted to ride my bike for a series later this year but his management said it was too dangerous....

 

Sam.

[Old Scrambler]

My coffee got cold..............

[NickO]

To be on the start line as part of a team at the TT is just the best (and most nervous) moments of your life!

To be at the finishing line when he come home first..............well then it goes onto another level

[MRieck]

I always thought it was the other way round Mike,  awesome video none the less.

Sam.

Maybe Sam Actually is takes balls to participate in either...the thread title is just a joke. There is one scene in that video that shows a solo rider literally eating up that fairly straight part of the course.....pretty amazing footage. That and the scene when the rider is going through the wooded area.
 I also thought about the starting Marshall patting each rider on the shoulder at the start....for too many riders that was the last person to touch them.

[bwaller]

I like going fast on a bike, but I have always been in awe of those riders. I'll admit to being a pu$$ie.........because the thought of a road course scares the #$%* out of me.

[zzpete]

Duhamel ain't no pusscake! His old man wasn't too bad niether!!
Daytona 200 Duhamel crash

[bwaller]

There's a huge difference between racing a road course and a race track. No question about the Duhamels.

[simon#42]

To be on the start line as part of a team at the TT is just the best (and most nervous) moments of your life!

To be at the finishing line when he come home first..............well then it goes onto another level

no thats easy , being on the start line and expected to do six 120mph laps when someone waves the flag is hard .

[Sam Green Racing]

That takes 74 seconds on Samauto Simon, it's dead easy.

[kmb69]

Whooaa! They're BRASS!

[Jim F]

The true road racers
Nice Mike

J

[Jay Ace]

no thats easy , being on the start line and expected to do six 120mph laps when someone waves the flag is hard .

They go up to 180

[Sam Green Racing]

They were doing 180mph in the 70s, probably well over 200 now.
120mph is an average lap speed on a slow bike.

Sam.

[dragracer]

No way i would road race. Those dudes got a screw loose. Compared to the knee draggers, I am a pansie, thats why i drag race.

[Bill/BentON Racing]

Well having done both......there's more than one reason I went back to Dragracing! Both do take cajones,but the skill and physical demands of road racing more challenging for sure....and more expensive! Bill

[Jim F]

The fast guys are averaging 130 MPH for (I think) 6 laps
senor TT

[Sam Green Racing]

yup. 

[Bill/BentON Racing]

Señor Senior Sam went a 130mph, in a little over a 1/4!!!!   Bill

[Sam Green Racing]

he also $hit himself.  ..................didn't I.

[sohc boy]

i'm with dragracer , call me a whimp any day , i have the utmost respect  n admiration for road ,curcuit racers ,tried it once , ..no thanks .......this guy gets my vote...facebook  MotoTube...Iyi Kurtardi cant up load video ( i'm sh$$$$house with computers )

[azuredesign]

Awesome to watch, going to the isle of Man for the TT( as a spectator) is on the top of my bucket list. Btw, one thing that has blown me away, and this is reinforced by this clip, is that appears that the course is not fenced in completely. Is that true?? Yikes!

[ji107]

I was there last year,you are right, pull up a bit of grass or sit on a nice stone wall, or get behind their piece of rope blocking a road !! Absolutely fantastic, as are the Irish road races, NW 200 ete. Would love to go again.

[andy750]

Awesome to watch, going to the isle of Man for the TT( as a spectator) is on the top of my bucket list. Btw, one thing that has blown me away, and this is reinforced by this clip, is that appears that the course is not fenced in completely. Is that true?? Yikes!

Yes no fencing. Spectators are protected by stone walls, their garden gate, bales of hay etc.....if you want a good spot at one of the corners you need to get up early and ride there...once the roads are closed nothing moves until the race is finished. Its like nothing you have ever seen before.

Mad Sunday is when anyone and everyone takes to the same course and rides as fast as they like (no speed limits). I recognise some parts of the Mountain course - I did this on my CB750F2 - going flat out at +100 mph and being passed by most

Andy

[70CB750]

What kills me is to see them jump and wobble, I don't think I would take it calmly 

Friend of mine visited Ferrari - or Lamborghini ? - not sure, fast car factory in Italy.  You can actually pay the money and take one for a spin on a race track.  He is a smart guy and he opted for the passenger seat with a factory driver to actually feel and see the - almost - limit of the car. 

[simon#42]

The fast guys are averaging 130 MPH for (I think) 6 laps
senor TT

i was speaking for myself jim , and i couldn't average 130 not even in my dreams.

[Don R]

What I said was, those cats are crazy,

[Sparked]

I've watched that  clip many times and am still in awe. Going through the trees that fast, in and out of the shadows, that's crazy crazy.

[turboguzzi]

this is not going to be a very popular post, but i have no interest whatsoever in watching Russian roulette live. and with an average of 2.4 deaths per race (239 deaths in 97 races) , it is a Russian roulette of sorts. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Snaefell_Mountain_Course_fatal_accidents

If though guy Ryan Facquar called it a day after his cousin died and seeing the devastating effects on wife, three kids and close family, i dont feel such a pussy saying this.

[ji107]

You are right TG that it does claim a lot of lives, but if you calculate how many racing miles ie how many riders X how many miles each does, the numbers become more realistic and comparable to local racing. While any death racing is tragic, it is a dangerous sport.

[turboguzzi]

You are right TG that it does claim a lot of lives, but if you calculate how many racing miles ie how many riders X how many miles each does, the numbers become more realistic and comparable to local racing. While any death racing is tragic, it is a dangerous sport.

sorry, but totally disagree with your analysis, I road race on circuits myself, crashed this very weekend, so am well aware of the dangers, but public roads racing is on another order of magnitude. no comparison at all, 
look at world endurance racing, were teams do 24 hours at full chat and tell me how many deaths there have been in the last few years.

[bwaller]

I agree with TG. We don't have to look further than Yrjo who hurt himself seriously on a road circuit.

I won't pretend to be the safety poster-boy but if a racer is fast on a road circuit, they can also be fast on a closed circuit without unreasonable obstacles. Of course it's a dangerous sport, I just feel we need to be responsible for our own safety, and I don't understand the allure of this type of racing.

[simon#42]

i totally agree with tg and brent , and having raced there i can tell you with first hand experience that tt racing is the most stupid sport on the planet .  riders fought for years to get purpose built circuits to race on so that one mistake did not mean the end of your career or worse life . what the death figures do not show is the amount of serious disabling injuries suffered each year . in 2006 i was in hospital in liverpool during the manx gp , they flew a few off the worst injured over and stuck them in my ward , one lad was very badly hurt and three months after leaving hospital took his own life , he does not show up in any of the accident statistics but the island killed him . when i first went over to race my sponsor asked his friend [ one of the best tt riders in history ] to give me some advice , he told me the secret of a fast lap was circuit knowledge and stupidity , and he was right .

[zzpete]

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH♛✔ ★HD★ 322kmh-200mph Street Race ✔ 'ISLE of MAN' TT   There are some great scenes in this.

OK I've watched the video 4 times now. I have to go before I get too old. If I don't make it next year, I'll have to shoot for 2015!! I wish I could do "Mad Sunday" but I doubt I could swing sending one of my bikes over. Can anyone recommend one of these package deals? The Classic TT looks cool!
http://www.iomttbreaks.com/index.html

[KRONUS0100]

i have done some amazingly stupid #$%* on a bike including an all out punch and kick melee on the goldwing with the wife on the back on the hills and twisties heading into brown county indiana.  when we hit nashville i pretty much dropped the bike and wife and went after the guy on the harley.  wife said she was scared the whole time, same for our friends we were riding with.   it all started because the guy on the harley tried to run my friend with my daughter on the back off the bridge coming out out of morgantown.  I would never ever try and roadrace on any surface or type of road, best to leave that to the professional insane riders.  looking back on the incident, i'm dang lucky i didnt get me and the wife killed or any of my friends or daughter hurt or killed....cant say that for the guy on the harley.