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Great video. I love watching the runs and re runs on what ever that high def channel at&t offers on their cable package.

 

 

 

It is impossible to be from the isle of man and be slow on two wheels.

 

Mark Cavendish "the Manx Missile" is one of the fastest and strongest sprinters cycling has to offer.

 

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lap record at the Isle is 131mph average over 37.7 miles (John McGuiness)

 

 

imagine doing that where a all of those 37.7 are run on public roads, including small towns with tight turns and walls and stuff

 

 

it s just mind-boggling and still people keep dying each year. I think there were 2 deaths this year

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the sidecar co-riders have the biggest balls of all

 

Those guys are just plain crazy. Human ballast.

 

The IOMTT is just amazing. It takes another level of rider to do that. There are so many places where laying it down means you'll go 100+mph into a brick wall or off a mountain.

 

There was a great article in Evo Magazine. They took two super cars to the Isle of Man for a test drive. I believe it was the Porsche GT2 and Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. While there, they were passed by a motorcyclist and decided to try and keep up with him. In the open sections on the mountain they could just barely keep up because of the long straights. But they said that he left a perfect black pencil line out of every corner. When the road really got tight, the motorcycle just disappeared.

 

On their way back home they ran into a guy who asked them if they were driving up on the mountain the day before. When they said yes, the guy said he had heard about the two white sports cars from his 65 year old co-worker that was riding to work that day on his motorcycle.

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