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This race is crazy, high percentage of atleast one rider dying correct? Read somewhere 246 riders have died in the past 100 years.

 

141 competitor fatalities during the race event (not practices), the rest of the 248 (2015 numbers) are spectators and race officials.

 

you know an event is no joke when just its fatalities has its own wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Snaefell_Mountain_Course_fatalities#List_of_fatal_accidents_involving_competitors

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: You cannot have any concept of your own mortality and expect to be competitive in this race.

 

Bingo.

 

These fuckers are grabbing throttle like a drunk kid tries to grab boobs on his first trip to the strip club.

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I used to work with Dave Roper at Team Obsolete. Dave is the only American to win the IoM TT on a gas powered motorcycle (a 1959 Matchless G50 in the Historic TT in 1984). In 1993 he planted TO's 1969 Benelli 350/4 into the hay bales in a pretty spectacular accident (I will see if I can find pics/footage). Used to tell me he doesn't remember the impact - just waking up on his back past the hay bales. The benelli is still wrecked in the TO basement.

 

here is a post from Dave's Blog when he went back to the historic IOM TT with the G50 on the 30th anniversary in 2014, It's fun if you are into vintage bike racing:

http://daveroperracing.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html

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A Dunlop just broke through the 17 minute barrier on the mountain course:

 

http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/unbelievable-sub-17-minute-lap-sets-new-isle-of-man-rec-1780850458

 

If you haven't seen it yet, there is a great documentary on netflix called "Road" about the Dunlop family and their legacy in motorcycle road racing.

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