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posted May 26, 2007 06:44 AM
Isle of Man
Anyone follow the Tourist Trophy? It begins in a couple of hours.....
I should have gone.This is the centennial.
I wish I could have seen Dunlop, Jeffries, Hailwood, but I'm sure they would be
proud of the job McGuinness has done
  
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posted May 26, 2007 07:06 AM
 Edited By: ricksgsxr on 26 May 2007 08:10
One day maybe..I buy the video's every year. None seem as good as the first one I bought way back in early 80's "V-Four Victory " which i did not know what the IOM TT was just bought from a Duke Video ad in the Cycle Guide magazine. The on board video footage with Joey Dunlop was so much different than anything else out plus the variety of classes and the side cars -the latetr them guys must have steel balls!
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posted May 26, 2007 11:24 AM
Looks like fun. I wanna go someday!
from a couple years ago:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/92093/isle_of_mann_tt_races/
sorry I dont know how to post the video directly
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posted May 26, 2007 01:19 PM
quote:
I should have gone.This is the centennial.
They have practice sessions all this week and the racing begins next saturday and through next week.
Looks like you stll have time to make it 
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posted May 26, 2007 05:45 PM
I had plans to go, back in sept last year.....but I guess it wasnt in the cards....
I have a corny motorcyle video made by peter star.....but it does have footage of
Russ Collins on a top fuel bike called "The Wizard" and Mike Hailwoods on board lap
of the moutain course....I think its around 1982..... yep Big Steel balls 
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posted May 26, 2007 09:43 PM
Harry went last year and had a BLAST!!!!
I would love to go sometime also!!
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posted May 27, 2007 02:32 AM
Edited By: entropy on 27 May 2007 03:41
damn i am an old fart!
I picked up a brand new 750 BSA Rocket 3 in London/Brixton in early June, 1970. It was the fastest stock bike on the planet for about 20 seconds (then the Honda 750 came out).
Ex wifey & i rode my spankin new Beezer to Liverpool and took the ferry to IOM to see the races. Way cool. Did the "bloody Sunday" lap around the "track", saw Agostini on an MV Agusta, had a GREAT time.
Unfortunately "Mike the Bike" Hailwood was off racing cars in 1970 and did not put in an appearance (think he stopped doing the TT in like 1968-ish???). He came back to the TT in the late 70's, but i wasn't there to see him 
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posted May 27, 2007 05:40 AM
Listen to the IOM TT radio here:
http://www.iomtt.com/TT-2007/TT-Live.aspx
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posted May 27, 2007 10:15 AM
Edited By: stevewfl on 27 May 2007 11:23
Can someone please PM me a link for the TT schedule? I'd like to place it on the Bikeland calendar.
Thanks in advance~
EDIT: nevermind I found it in a Bikeland article, thanks anyway :P
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posted May 28, 2007 04:48 AM
Thanks for the live IOM radio link Harry! 
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posted May 28, 2007 05:16 AM
The isle of mann is the most awesome motorcycle event i have ever been to in my life. There is a lot more than just the TT.I'm hoping to go back in 2008 for a month.
Cregnabah IOM and my ZXR-400
Glen helen IOM practice
Mountain course IOM
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posted May 28, 2007 12:51 PM
wow @ those pics!
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posted May 29, 2007 07:13 AM
isle of man is really the place to be in europe..
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Texas12R
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posted May 29, 2007 12:14 PM
Look at Harry!.....Way cool
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posted June 02, 2007 11:53 AM
Harry is a lucky s.o.b., I can only hope to go someday before I die.
What has happened to McGuinness? Is he not racing the IOM this year? Looks like Ian Hutchinson has taken his place at HM Plant Honda and the top of the practice sheets too, he did a great job with the Kawasakis last year, glad to see him on top of things.
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posted June 02, 2007 12:09 PM
"The isle of mann is the most awesome motorcycle event i have ever been to in my life. There is a lot more than just the TT.I'm hoping to go back in 2008 for a month."
Hope to my ass! I'm looking forward to riding with you there in '08. I've got my 2br condo paid for in Port Erin.
awesome pics btw, thanks 
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posted June 02, 2007 09:07 PM
i'm so dayum jealous!
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posted June 03, 2007 03:04 PM
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i'm so dayum jealous!
just go, you got a year
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posted June 04, 2007 04:27 AM
McGuinness is there. IOM web site qoutes him as saying that he will be the man to turn
a 130 mph averarge on the mountain course!
H2 to ZX12 ......does the condo at Port Erin have a dog house I can stay in
I spend a lot of time in the dog house here so I would be right at home 
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posted June 04, 2007 08:43 AM
Texas12,
I got lucky and traded my timeshare for the 2 br condo there, don't ask me how it just showed up in RCI's system
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posted June 06, 2007 09:16 PM
The site I found practice times didn't have McGuiness, but he's there alright!
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posted June 07, 2007 08:40 AM
those people siting on the outside of that turn are nuts, that's crash central
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posted June 08, 2007 08:32 AM
John McGuinness confirmed his place among the TT legends with a stunning victory on the Senior.
The Morecambe rider shattered his own outright lap record, smashing the 130mph barrier, on the way to securing his 13th TT victory. It means he is the thirdmost successful solo rider in the event's 100-year history.
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posted June 09, 2007 05:06 AM
3 people killed on the last lap of the race.
Two corner workers also seriously injured.
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