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Dunlop is fucking killing it. New lap records and absolutely demolished the competition in super bikes.
Looking to be a very exciting week of racing.
It is on Velocity TV at 8pm, if you are interested.
Looking to be a very exciting week of racing.
It is on Velocity TV at 8pm, if you are interested.
These boys ride these road bikes like its motocross!
Says he thinks he can do a 134, or 135 mph lap - he's frightening to watch - well, they all are, especially now that so many are routinely doing 130mph laps
This, is not SX folks!
I wonder how Lougher is going with the Suter MMX500? I assume he can only race it in the Senior. I do hope he stays safe, he's won his races, and at 53, I'd hate to see the TT course bite him.. I think Anstey got into the top ten on the RC213V-S.
Only just found out that an ex-patriot Aussie, now resident on the IOM, Dwight Beare, had died during the first Sidecar race. And, a local IOM racer , Paul Shoesmith, crashed at Sulby in practice, and died . RIP, Paul and Dwight.
Not been able to keep up with much of it at the moment. Have to try harder.
This will get you to a good source of TT videos, John McGuiness' TT Diaries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1c6wuJfx4Y
Looks like McG only lost 3kg of the 10 he had to get one of the Mugen Shengen E Bikes, but, his off hand comment seems to indicate he got one anyway! Maybe just for display at the TT, but I hope he has it for home.
The course knocks the hell out of the bikes, and a potentially 'flighty' Moto GP replica, being used for the first time there is up against it. Anstey reportedly, loves it, and, if they keep developing it for Real Roads courses, it could be the ultimate weapon. But, it has a bit of a way to go.
Let's see if he uses it in the Senior. I would like to see Bruce get another TT win, even if he is a 'dastardly Kiwi'.......::and, if he gets out of bed on the right side, as they say, he could do a blinder of a race .
The Shop
Don't know if he will ride the rest of the week , selfishly I kind of hope not.
And Davo Johnson is certainly going well on the Norton, beating that RCV is a feather in his cap for sure. I know him well and I know how hard he is trying .
McG, as usual, entertaining and open / honest.
Hutchy, for you blokes that might judge him on his quiet voice, just look him up - 5 TT wins in 2010 TT week, to then have a prang at a 'safe' short circuit, and go through over 30 operations to save his leg - to get 3 TT race wins last year. A genuinely hard man, that makes so many others look like Prima Donnas.
Michael Dunlop - so very different outwardly than his father Robert, and his Uncle Joey - I don't think I've ever seen / met another bloke that so confronts me as being completely, viciously focused on the job at hand.. I , for one, hope he never follows up on his ambition of racing Sidecars at the TT - those blokes really do run frightening risks, and I don't know how a F2 / TT Sidecar rig could cope with his way of riding - I've largely worked on SCs at the TT in the last 5 years, and those things take the worst pounding of any vehicle there. He, I feel, would crush one.
Another Australian bout died saturday here.
Matt mingay
Farrrrrrk, so much for 4 wheels being safe. I guess he might look like Hillbilly, now.........
And no, I don't want to see any pictures of his injuries , Banjo Boy.
https://youtu.be/SU_8pHbo1IM
Pit Row
I pre - ordered Hutchies story, and it should be with me in a few days, but it's great to see this TV version.
I hope a few here watch it, and see a bloke that never gave / gives up.
These blokes don't have bloody death wish, as a previous poster wrote, they have a love of living life to the fullest. And, it's the blokes / blokettes that are the 'also rans' that exemplify that attitude the most.
Thanks also for the Pre Show and the Superbike race - I don't have cable, and if I go to my brothers to watch it on his mega screen, my liver takes too much of a hammering.......
If you could put up the coming shows, I'd much appreciate it.
Feeling a bit lost not being there this year, but, my mum's birthday had to take precedence for once, it's been hard on her my not being around for it for over a decade now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd66AZWBzOo
Don't be put off by the subtitles - Ian Lougher is interviewed in (Irish) English
https://youtu.be/zd66AZWBzOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2MWzqN3xTw
https://youtu.be/V2MWzqN3xTw
You can buy one, at a starting point of 80,000 Brit Pounds, if I recall correctly.............
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3546370/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Watching it now. 130mph avg! That is insane!!
Do they not have starters?
I could drink without a head.
I like lots of runoff and a ambulance within eyesight.
I think they are nuts too, but having 2 good mates who are there doing it , and loving it, who am I to question ?
I think Hare Scrambles are crazy , each to their own.
Now Desert guys.. they are special.
https://youtu.be/5nlzxR6lN7Q
So, right now, MD has that win. Hutchy has won the Superstock - 'mildly' modified 1000s, on treaded tyres, and he goes 16.54.259 @133.918 mph! Though, that was Glen Helen to Glen Helen (for you GH worshippers), so , not an official record as such, I think. With, as he said, "the tarmac melting all over the place" And, he won the first Supersport race - 600s.
MD was disqualified from 2nd place in the first Supersport race - due to something that the organisers said gave him no advantage / wasn't an attempt at cheating. A stuff up / mistake that didn't comply with rules. Rules are rules = fair enough. Another bloke who finished somewhere around 14th(?), was DQ'd for a bike with a significant over bore. MD DNF'd the Superstock race with a broken gear lever.
And, if you can, just watch this press conference after the Superstock (and the earlier Supersport race) :
https://youtu.be/Aeaw0RkiNCo
No 'you knows', no , 'ems and ahhs', no grandstanding bullshit. A lot of highest level prima donnas could learn a thing or two from these blokes.
I went through a smiliar ordeal with my left forearm (albeit not as terrible), and unlike Hutchy, it ended my racing career. I could not grasp the thought of going through that much pain ever again.
This man is one tough son of a bitch.
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