For TT nuts like me

[zedcars]

Hey fellas, like bikes?
Enjoy this from Al Jazeera:-
The Isle of Man TT: A Dangerous Addiction - Al Jazeera Correspondent - Al Jazeera English (http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2012/10/201210381442860175.html)
Reserve 40 odd minutes away from the missus, unless she likes them as well!

Enjoy & Cheers
Dennis
zedcars

[newhue]

The old TT, balls as big as apples, brains as small as sand, and rivers of adrenalin, the epitome of racing.
Would love to get there one year. Not to race just take it all in and enjoy the countryside as well.

[weeds]

The link had expired but I found it on you tube....good to see guy Martin being interviewed.

I'm guessing you have all watch the movie that come out this year.....umm or was it last year. Awesome movie

[p38arover]

Link works for me.

[herrBlick]

That was great...... I watched TT3D in the movies also great.
I grew up beside the Dundrod race track were the Ulster Grand Prix is held..
These are some of the worlds finest sports men.
Compare Lance cheating one ball Armstrong to Joey Dunlop. There is no comparison.
Here is the difference! Joey sailed to compete in the TT with 3 friends with four bikes. The boat sank in port Douglas harbour.
Joey saves the 3 friends who could not swim. Then before breakfast he helps retrieve the bike from the bottom of the harbour...strips ,cleans and re-assembles the bikes..goes on to win the TT.....he won this event 24 or 26 times over the years.....need I say more

[zedcars]

Well guys
Having been a regular devotee to the TT in the 70's when the likes of the late great Mike Hailwood & Giacomo Agostini dueled it out there was always a festival of speed going on somewhere on the island.

NO bike speed festival was ever complete without a beer and film tent showing "No Limit" with that 1930's goofy character George Formby.

(1935) No Limit - George Formby - YouTube


Note the packet ship in the film Manxman was used with others in the IOMSP fleet to pluck the BEF from the Dunkirk beaches. There are lots to see about the UK in the 1930's if you are observant, albeit looking very dated, but again take a look at the Senior line up, I spotted a few Velos, Rudges, and a Triumph single at the line up. See what you can spot!

As a personal ditty, my mother's sister Aunt Ethel was a dispatch rider in the British army I have pictures of this young woman in 1940 riding a side valve BSA 350/500 and a 16H Norton.
In 1945 as a driver to an American officer she crashed her Hudson after losing control on an icy street into the front garden of the very same George Formby's house in Blackpool. We have a photo of her with him cleaning up the wooden fence.
Enjoy the film if you like looking at a simpler time in yesteryear.
Cheers Dennis
zedcars

[JohnF]

Your thread title tricked me. We do have TT gauge Model Railways, a very rare gauge, inherited from my father.

[Baffle]

Most emotional race for spectator and racer,