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sir pball

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31. Maybe back in the day, but...

Reply to wasupaloopa (Reply #30)

Fri Sep 13, 2019, 10:41 AM

Sep 2019

...nowadays almost every motorsport mandates engines that will last multiple races if not the whole season; MotoGP allows nine, F1 only gets 4 a year!

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How To Ride A Motorcycle Very Fast [View all] sir pball Sep 2019 OP

I had to turn it of at 0:27. I couldn't take it anymore. NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2019 #1

The real screwy part is that because of the demands of the course, sir pball Sep 2019 #6

About two weeks ago I averaged over twice that fast between Idaho and Wyoming Major Nikon Sep 2019 #19

I've always said riding a motorcycle makes you realize how fast 45mph actually is sir pball Sep 2019 #20

It feels faster the less protected you are from the relative wind Major Nikon Sep 2019 #22

Oh, you're no fun. sir pball Sep 2019 #24

But the engines are so tuned that they only last one race wasupaloopa Sep 2019 #28

Not the TT engines. sir pball Sep 2019 #29

I read that they can take a stock bike from the crate and fix it up for a race but that the engine wasupaloopa Sep 2019 #30

Maybe back in the day, but... sir pball Sep 2019 #31

F1 gets three now. Codeine Sep 2019 #32

Whew! Traveling at that speed, you'd have no time to react to anything. Arkansas Granny Sep 2019 #2

Nope. You're either perfect, or sir pball Sep 2019 #5

The risk factor seems insanely high: Disaffected Sep 2019 #14

It's one of the last real old-fashioned races in the world sir pball Sep 2019 #21

Amazing Disaffected Sep 2019 #23

That is absolutely not why they do it. sir pball Sep 2019 #25

There are something like 256 racing deaths in 112 years of racing at the Isle of Man. yonder Sep 2019 #3

The World's Fastest Death Cult sir pball Sep 2019 #4

I think it's the oldest running motorcycle race.. mitch96 Sep 2019 #7

I learned of it some 50 years ago as a budding new motorcyclist, and have wanted to go for years. yonder Sep 2019 #8

I started looking immediately after it wrapped up this year sir pball Sep 2019 #10

" I WILL get out there one day." mitch96 Sep 2019 #11

I'd like to do the entire two weeks or however long it is sir pball Sep 2019 #12

I was relieved when Guy Martin retired from the TT Races Niagara Sep 2019 #9

I adore him sir pball Sep 2019 #13

I agree Niagara Sep 2019 #17

A "shitpiss straight-talking truck mechanic" sir pball Sep 2019 #26

He was a mad man on a bike and I could not understand a word he said.... it was English to! mitch96 Sep 2019 #15

He's still a mad man on a bike Niagara Sep 2019 #18

Honda's first Isle of Man win 1961. Hotler Sep 2019 #16

The benefit of absolutely knowing the course kacekwl Sep 2019 #27