Sidecar Newcomers TT Weekend
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I assume this is 'open roads' training? An excellent idea - I just hope that the students are of a high standard to start with, but that should be a 'gimme' if they are prepared to invest the time and cost of getting there and taking part.
The last time I was able to get over for the races was a few years ago, and apart from my dismay at the changes to the course making it much more dangerous in my view, I was astonished at the low standard of riding of so many. I watched the 125s at the Gooseneck, and one rider (happened to be a girl, but no excuses there) from Portugal, persisted in staying to the left of the white line as if on normal roads - she did it on the way in, all round it, and on the way out! If someone has got that little idea about the basics of racing motorcycles, taking part in six or one thousand short-circuit races before coming over to the Island will not stop them endangering themselves and anyone else near them! Others were excessively slow, or erratic, and I can only assume that all the bumps and bends that have been removed enable real wankers to qualify by going fast on the straight bits!
What some riders will make of Hillberry with the near-removal of Brandish hardly bears thinking about................
MGP '68 & '69; TT 1970-74
16-11-2006, 06:26 PM
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Sidecar Newcomers TT Weekend - by Paul Phillips - 16-11-2006, 01:45 AM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 16-11-2006, 11:52 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Phillips - 16-11-2006, 03:51 PM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 16-11-2006, 06:26 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Phillips - 16-11-2006, 06:54 PM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 16-11-2006, 11:25 PM
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