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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #15 - 01/31/15 at 11:00:34 any turn you can wheelie away from is a good turn.
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #16 - 01/31/15 at 11:49:31 just wow
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zipidachimp Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1416 surrey, b.c. Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #17 - 02/02/15 at 02:58:59 Justin, Art: head out to Austin, April 12, COTA Moto-GP see it in person!
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Reply #18 - 02/02/15 at 05:33:19

Went to Oktoberfest once, saw boat and bike racing. I was young and it was fun. The trip there would take 2days in a hotel to get over.. so, much as I'd like to watch,, snot pawssibull.. I was hanging out in Austin back when Hamilton pool still had a rope swing and Taco Flats was just outta city limits.
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #19 - 02/02/15 at 11:31:29 Love to, but I work most weekends' JOG, I were in Austin back then, but woulda been 11 (turning 12 in October) don't think they'da let me in at Oktoberfest
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Reply #20 - 02/02/15 at 14:32:57

If you like this, I highly suggest you check out videos from the Isle of Man races. I've been an admirer of this race for years and just can't imagine how to sit on the saddle with balls that big. Speeds aren't quite as high as Moto GP but it's on public roads. Be sure and check out the Paddock Girls, too.
Here's a nice clip from 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmb23hwLVs

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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #21 - 02/03/15 at 13:33:19 Oh man, that guy at the end I doubt he survived this are some really ballsy riders, and poetry in motion on their bikes
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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #22 - 02/03/15 at 18:25:55 Yup the fella at the end, hit a stone wall down on the bottom.....wow.....
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #23 - 02/03/15 at 19:08:53 darn
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #24 - 02/03/15 at 19:51:31 Regrettable fact of life, the TT has always exacted a toll.
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #25 - 02/03/15 at 20:24:52 yes, I know Paul Walker (car guy, not moto) always said 'if the speed takes me, don't mourn, I died doing what I love' I'm sure that goes fir the TT guys, too, but I still has a sad
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Reply #26 - 02/03/15 at 20:42:10

I've played close to the fire enough to get burned,, those guys are playing a LOT Harder, a much BIGGER fire, more time to make a mistake and less room to compensate, that the number being killed isn't so high that they stop racing there is amazing. They clear a hill and wobble,, looks terrifying. They have to get it straight and lined up for a turn.. amazing riding.

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Reply #27 - 02/04/15 at 03:50:57

While I am not one that supports over regulation - it does appear that the technology and speed of the bikes has exceeded the limitations of the environment. "Between 1907 and 2014 there have been 245 rider competitor fatalities during official practices or races". That calculates to 2.3 riders each year......and I bet that there were very few riders killed in the early years. In 1970 there were 6 riders killed.

I read this quote in Wikipedia, and this sounds more like what the roads could handle: "The winner of the single-cylinder class, and overall winner of the first event in 1907, was Charlie Collier riding a Matchless motorcycle in a time of 4 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds at an average race speed of 38.21 mph. The winner of the twin-cylinder class was Rem Fowler riding a Peugeot engined Norton in a time of 4 hours 21 minutes and 52 seconds at an average race speed of 36.21 mph."

Maybe the Isle of Man needs to return to the type of bikes the roads can handle safely...either vintage racing or limit the racers to single cylinders. I can't see how the number of deaths will decrease when motorcycles are getting more HP and more speed every year.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Now that's what I call dragging a knee Reply #28 - 02/04/15 at 08:27:05 I'd like to visit,off the record,with a few winners of that race and see what they say.
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Reply #29 - 02/04/15 at 12:21:13

Dave wrote on 02/04/15 at 03:50:57:

While I am not one that supports over regulation - it does appear that the technology and speed of the bikes has exceeded the limitations of the environment. "Between 1907 and 2014 there have been 245 rider competitor fatalities during official practices or races". That calculates to 2.3 riders each year......and I bet that there were very few riders killed in the early years. In 1970 there were 6 riders killed.

I read this quote in Wikipedia, and this sounds more like what the roads could handle: "The winner of the single-cylinder class, and overall winner of the first event in 1907, was Charlie Collier riding a Matchless motorcycle in a time of 4 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds at an average race speed of 38.21 mph. The winner of the twin-cylinder class was Rem Fowler riding a Peugeot engined Norton in a time of 4 hours 21 minutes and 52 seconds at an average race speed of 36.21 mph."

Maybe the Isle of Man needs to return to the type of bikes the roads can handle safely...either vintage racing or limit the racers to single cylinders. I can't see how the number of deaths will decrease when motorcycles are getting more HP and more speed every year.

sorta like the 'twins' division Harley initiated?

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