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48 minutes ..worth it all , great video

WOW, those blokes will be able to look back on their lives and have a great tale to tell

Now THAT is cool.

BTW, did anyone else think the opening shot was a visual reference to the opening sequence of Lawrence of Arabia? Pretty cool, if so...

How could a "sport" be this dangerous?   Is it true that in the last 20 years there as a fatality in 17 of those years?  That is a VERY high risk factor....this race to me is the most perplexing & amazing thing in all of motorcycling. Does anyone have mixed feelings about this race?  Part of me thinks its just wrong.  This is more than a "race"....just speechless at this point after watching that video...watching again

They will never die wondering what if, these blokes have balls of a malley bull

You could say that again and again and again to infinity [thumbsup]

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Thanks for posting.

My feeling is that all the riders know what the risks are, they're taking it willingly. Now it would be quite different if they were forced in to it by circumstance, but it doesn't seem that way. There are a lot of other races they could ride in. It's basically the decision we've all made as riders, on a much larger scale.

True

Worth every second of film.

Read the book "Burning Rubber" by Charles Jennings. It chroncles F1 racing from the beginning to the present era. It wasn't all that unusual to have multiple drivers dying in a single race weekend. It was a brutal sport up until Senna's death, at which point they got serious about driver safety. Very good book.

"Ring of Fire" by Rick Broadbent is a similar book about MotoGP. Also very good.

People watching racing now have no idea what dangerous is.

Finally got to watch this... [thumbsup] [thumbsup]

Triple J you have a great point...I guess the idea of real danger specially in a commercialized event is indeed foreign to most in this day and age.  I just wonder how commercialized and corporatized an event like this can get?  This might be a stupid question but have any motogp riders ever crossed over to tt or vise versa?

As I said before, the IOM used to be part of the GP Circuit.

Yes: the TT is more than the regular Motogp. However, it just seems more brutal because of the nature of the crashes.

We as a people are attracted to danger. To put things in perspective, every year four people die directly because of football injury. Another nine die from indirect injury from football as well.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_issues_in_American_football#section_1 (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_issues_in_American_football#section_1)

So how can a commercially broadcasted event be this brutal?  It happens here as well, which is not as aware of it. Granted, the football pool size is much much larger compared to a single event, but it does serve to illustrate that there are risks in everything. And yes, these people have massive make the beast with two backsing balls

in a similar vein to the IOM...here is some Macau TT footage stuff for ya!

http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/macau-gp-race-video-host-saiger/ (http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/macau-gp-race-video-host-saiger/)

That is insane [thumbsup]

Nice ...that is amazing

 [popcorn]

Claustrophobic comes to mind when I watch that video. Not to mention how does guys lean and almost rest their heads on the walls.

Ouch....

IMO IOM ( ;D) isn't a brutal sport....unlike American football, the object is not to hit things because that just slows you down  8)

I had the honor of riding here in OH (Route 555) with a gentleman in his 60's now from UK who had raced the TT many years back.  I wish we had time to chat but he had to cut the ride short as the bike he was riding (loaner) was a 1987 or so old bike with a 30 year old tire lol   I remember before I even knew who he was I was riding behind and looking at his posture and how he was kicking everyone's arse that he was a pro.  and upon stopping for conversation, it turned out i was right.  He was some riders uncle or something for a short visit here.  he was happy to see a few of us riding a Triumph  :)

My question is - do they memorize the route ?   I mean how can one have such a quick reaction? huge kahuna's.

memorization is key! and yes, they do have huge kahuna's

Any racer memorizes the track. The difference with the TT is it takes several years to memorize it and become fast.