Speed
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0SjLC_lqk

I never cared much for bikes, but this is potentially the best video I've ever seen on youtube... :rock:

Song goes amazingly well with the video! I soooo want to do this one day, before I die.
I wouldn't even mind dying on it, as long as it's past the main straight. :P

Too fast for this old dog on two wheels. I'll leave that to the young pups.

If they are doing that on a closed, inspected course, that one thing. More power to them

However, if they are doing that on an open road, they are idiots. At that speed (300 feet per second), there is no reaction time for anything. A pot hole, gopher, pretty much anything on the road and you would not see it.

I have to admit that the filmmaking, and the bikes, have a lot of technology behind them, but way back when I was busy hitchhiking from California to Utah, there was this movie...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyf0qRDYYr0

i think they inspected the roads first and fixed what had to be fixed.
looked damn good to me, for a small island rural street.

however, the stuff is tight right there. one mistake, and you go plowing right into a front yard.

and at that speed, you will cross that front yard, a dozen more - walls, hedges, trees, benches and flowers included, and splatter your brains all over the patio of the last house of the street.

Awesome.
Insane.

Impressive.

Awesome video. :up:


@ Steve, that too is a good film.

It's a yearly event on that island IIRC. So the roads are closed for public traffic at that time.

That's correct :yep:

http://www.gov.im/infocentre/ttroads.xml

I think that movie did a lot to improve the public opinion of motorcycles. :up:

1971 :o:o Holy crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=...4&feature=fvwp

The OP is a great looking video, but they left out this:
234 riders have died in that race over the years.

My Dad had a friend who thought he was a hot rider and went to the TT one year. Story goes he was out giving it his all and got passed by two other riders that were tinkering with their carburetters as they went by. He decided it was time to quit.

If that is really a true story then :har::har::har:

but I doubt it. :sunny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07yt87lhEA

Just a few broken bones, can you believe it?
Damn lucky..

Pretty crazy stuff when you see a lap of the TT from an onboard view. :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2TVnGBS1F8

Lucky indeed. :o


Edit: Check this out. Just look where the spectators are, they are crazier than the riders. :o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWf-6UzQUA

TT Isle of Man...I gotta hand it to these riders they got balls and nerves of titanium to pull it off at such speeds.

They're well aware of the risk if something goes wrong but that doesn't seem to stop them.

:rock:it's as the title says the greatest show on earth if you like biker sports

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