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the shizzle => shootin' the shit => Topic started by: Bubba on May 30, 2003, 06:12:38 pm

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on May 30, 2003, 06:12:38 pm

David Jeffries, nine times winner, has been killed in practice.

160mph crash after hitting oil, straight into a lamp-post.  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

(http://www.argonet.co.uk/italia/isleofman/jpg/tt-racers/djeffr.jpg)

Jim Moodie was also injured hitting debris from the crash, but will be ok.

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: nik at work on June 02, 2003, 10:02:07 am

Thats gotta be unpretty :(  :(

You going to go over to watch the races?

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 02, 2003, 10:06:45 am

It says a lot about the unforgiving nature of the place when someone like him, who must have known the course like his bell-end comes a cropper like this. It also begs the question - if there was oil on the road, why was there no oil flags out  :twisted:

Nah - never been over myself - I love bikes but don't like all that biker scene thing really. Mad Sunday just looks like suicide too. I do love to watch the onboard videos from the IOM though - If you've never seen anyone hitting 170mph on narrow A roads, it is something to behold.

Ironically, just getting my bike back on the road this week....

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: nik at work on June 02, 2003, 10:19:49 am

I on the other hand am not especially interested in bikes but as the gf is from IOM I go over and ask stupid question that highlight me as a complete biking know-nothing.
You're right though it is just a bunch of hairy arsed bikers and there leather clad ladies with a propensity for breast flashing drinking endless quatities of beer. All good natured fun - but not my scene...

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 02, 2003, 10:24:30 am

What does your g/f think of the races? I guess it's a good form of income for many of the locals but it can't be nice having your home overrun and people killing themselves at the bottom of your drive, etc.

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: nik at work on June 02, 2003, 10:56:39 am

She thinks much the same as me - pretty good laugh. Her brother is mad about bikes so thinks it is ace. Her dad plays in a band and they get loads of gigs and make a fortune so he thinks it's brilliant (ah and he gets the week off work too). Her mum probably doesn't like it because it's dangerous and too noisy - but she probably thinks crochet races are dangerous and too noisy...

Most people seem to think its good - I guess if you can compress all your tourism into one week of the year and have peace and quiet for the remaining 51 it seems like a pretty good trade off. Also the visitors rarely cause any trouble at all (unlike the local scallies who go out of their way to be obnoxious - which can be quite amusing, watching a seven stone runt of a scally try to start a fight with half a dozen 16 stone german bikers)

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 02, 2003, 03:04:04 pm

Whoop de woo!!! I've just got my bike insured...so next weekend, watch out for a black/red GSXR-750 annoying punters on Stanage with my loud loud loud race pipe  :P

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 02, 2003, 10:20:55 pm

Went out on the beast late tonight - bleedin' hell, I hardly got beyond half throttle - I'd forgotten just how fast the thing builds speed....a bit of a sensory overload being used to my slow impreza sport. Had a race with a Celica GT4 but he was a pussy and wouldn't go above 105mph so was easy peasy...

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: nik at work on June 03, 2003, 08:17:50 am

Thats what I like about this site, the constant promoting of fun activities coupled with a sensible approach... :lol:

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 03, 2003, 08:24:27 am

Precisely  :D

None of this moralising on the dangers of speed here - believe me, I know speed can kill but at 9.30pm in an empty Peak I don't see a problem with it.

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: nik at work on June 03, 2003, 08:41:41 am

Hell I'm not going to chastise you. There is a level of hypocriticism that is beyond even me...

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 03, 2003, 08:46:43 am

If you're visiting your g/f's folks on the IOM, you should hire a Ferrari or something and take advantage of their open ended speed limit outside of towns - now that'd be a laff - about £300 p/day last time I checked.

mmmmm....ok, so that's potentially a week's holiday.....not such a bargain after all...

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Norton Sharley on June 03, 2003, 08:09:08 pm

RIP DJ

Bubba's got the gixer out  :lol:

Those were the days, remember that TVR Cerbera   :twisted:

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 04, 2003, 08:48:38 am

Just couldn't bring myself to sell it, then started dreaming about riding again so thought I'd drag the poor old thing out of retirement - you getting another one sometime NortonS?

Yeah, I remember that TVR - probably the only road car I've ever been truly gobsmacked by - that thing was fast.....but not fast enough  :D

Title: IOM TT strikes down another great
Post by: Bubba on June 04, 2003, 09:08:30 am

Lots of bike vid snippets here (http://www.okas.co.uk/others/)

I just checked out "ginacrash" - now that had to hurt!

And some more here (http://www.bikepics.com/bikemovies/)