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Those adverse camber bits look really scary.
I notice there aren't any dopey spectators getting in the way like they do on the Tour de France.
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The film is pretty terrifying really - the absolute faith required in the adhesion of two little patches of rubber on tarmac to stop you impacting a tree or a wall at that sort of speed involves the kind of bravery that most of us simply don't possess, let alone the skill to ride right on the limit of it nearly continuously.
The bit where he's overtaking the other rider and the other guy pops back in front of him literally made me tense up involuntarily.
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Another short promo film here for road-racing (in its natural home.. this tme )
(As you can see, the on-board cameras haven't improved a lot between 2010 and now)
You have no idea how quick and how ballsy these guys are when you see them close up and the Road racing boys are insanely good . But,they pay a heavy price .............just look at the Dunlop family.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
It's a lovely place, though.
+1 for his book, it's excellent. I found it impossible to read without hearing it all in his voice in my head, and the bit about the "threesome" that ended up being him eating a Mars Bar and watching his mate nobbing a girl in his van made me do a proper lol
in a hire car, at less than the speed limit and it freaked me out !
The colleague I was with made me stand on Bray Hill to experience the bikes going past for the first time. Being a metre or so away from a bike doing those sorts of speeds was incredible - I'll never forget the air being forced out of the way as the bike was approaching - they really do punch a hole in the air.
I've a wonderful picture of my Kawasaki in front of the grandstand very early in the morning after I'd done my first ever lap of the course.
I loved every minute I spent on that Island during the TT and Manx GP weeks.
Another frightening one is Conor Cummins "off" at the Verrandah, again at the IoM.