Another TT course change
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I am reminded here every day of the course that I knew - the minor roads here that we use to nip to the shops (9kms) are so much like parts of the Island - bumps, off-camber and positive-camber, tight bends, open, fast bends, past little hamlets and dirt roads where you have to watch for loose rubble after rains. Thankfully, they do not melt in the summer 40+ degree heat, unlike the 13th Milestone section that killed Santago Herrero in 1970.
Non-TT hazards are a problem though sometimes - the odd burro or horse loaded with harvested produce, with its owner walking alongside (usually chatting on a state-of-the-art mobile!!), dollops of concrete dropped from the many mixer lorries, right on the "racing line", little old men on mopeds - no helmet, little silencing, and doing less than 20kph. Helen and her fellow marshalls would have great fun clearing that lot out of the way before the roads could be closed! :wink:
MGP '68 & '69; TT 1970-74
15-10-2007, 12:08 PM
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Another TT course change - by cargo - 13-10-2007, 08:39 AM
Two birds - by ian huntly - 13-10-2007, 09:44 AM
[No subject] - by andy21aa - 13-10-2007, 10:14 AM
[No subject] - by Chris Maybury - 13-10-2007, 04:29 PM
[No subject] - by Arthur Lawn - 13-10-2007, 05:47 PM
dedication - by ian huntly - 14-10-2007, 04:11 PM
[No subject] - by samwise - 14-10-2007, 05:31 PM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 14-10-2007, 09:41 PM
[No subject] - by MV - 15-10-2007, 11:39 AM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 15-10-2007, 12:08 PM
[No subject] - by Arthur Lawn - 15-10-2007, 12:57 PM
[No subject] - by alf885 - 15-10-2007, 07:16 PM
[No subject] - by Don Simons - 16-10-2007, 06:27 AM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 16-10-2007, 09:05 AM
[No subject] - by Don Simons - 16-10-2007, 10:25 AM
[No subject] - by DCLUCIE - 16-10-2007, 12:09 PM
[No subject] - by cargo - 16-10-2007, 12:28 PM
[No subject] - by thewitch - 16-10-2007, 12:54 PM
[No subject] - by Arthur Lawn - 16-10-2007, 01:35 PM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 16-10-2007, 06:07 PM
[No subject] - by PeterCourtney - 16-10-2007, 06:19 PM
[No subject] - by Arthur Lawn - 16-10-2007, 07:08 PM
[No subject] - by thewitch - 17-10-2007, 04:38 PM
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