You are riding with Carl Fogarty for one lap of the Isle of Man TT Circuit on a Ducati 851 in 1990. Carl delivers the commentary making this more a visual tutorial. Excellent historical time capsule
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You are riding with Carl Fogarty for one lap of the Isle of Man TT Circuit on a Ducati 851 in 1990. Carl delivers the commentary making this more a visual tutorial. Excellent historical time capsule
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At the age of 85, Ted Fenwick would far rather slip on his leathers than his slippers.
The grandfather of three from York has been racing motorbikes for six decades and is a four-time winner at the Isle of Man's Pre TT Classic races, most recently in 2011, aged 83.
Last year the retired engineer was narrowly beaten into second place in his favourite 250cc class, having won the event for three consecutive years, regularly finishing ahead of competitors a fraction of his age.
"I love to give the youngsters a run for their money," he said. "You can't put a price on experience."
He discovered his love of motorbikes as a teenager and raced all over the UK for 20 years before taking a break to raise his family....
This guy is Our Hero. For the results and to see how he did,go HERE
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Johnston had had little time to familiarize himself with the Ducati 1199 Panigale leading up to the North West 200, but an eighth place qualifying position had given him confidence going into the race.
Next week...the Isle of Man TT!
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A reporter for Al Jazeera attended the Isle of Man TT last year and filed an interesting video report on the festival of racing and tragedy.
Wow. Nice find SuperbikePlanet. Great account of an event that's hard to capture in a well rounded way.
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Watch the Best of the 2012 Isle of Man TT Click here for the RMediaRacing Formula 1 2012 Review Races 1 - 6 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrbtut_f1-review...
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MCN Senior Road Tester Adam Child will compete in this year's lightweight TT race aboard a Kawasaki ER-6 with help from road racing expert
Ryan Farquar.
Child - or Chad as he's known at MCN - has been professionally testing bikes for over 10 years, seven of which at MCN, and has already
had a taste of road racing at the North West 200, Oliver's Mount and Paeroa New Zealand.
He will be riding for Ken Urwin Motorcycles near Doncaster who are currently building the bike with specialist help from Ryan and
Maxton suspension.
Here, Chad laps the mountain course onboard a brand new Ducati 1199 Panigale.
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Parochial fans too often talk about the 1978 TT as Mike Hailwood’s comeback. The familiar story goes that he returned after years away from racing, his Isle of Man victory made even sweeter by unexpectedly choosing to ride a Ducati rather than returning to Honda. Some people even gild the lily with tales of Hailwood arriving on the Island and having to come to terms with a left-foot gear change and a big Desmo twin when he’d last raced a right foot-changing 500 multi. Yet like so much of the received wisdom on Mike’s comeback, it’s all wrong. After the Nürburgring crash that mangled his right leg and ended his F1 career, Mike might have moved to New Zealand, but he certainly didn’t give up on bikes. The story of his real comeback to racing, and his journey to the Isle of Man was via the race tracks of Australia. The truth involved racing a Ducati 750SS in the Castrol Six Hour Race at Amaroo Park, a properly scary, knarled little race track where rock faces and concrete walls count as run off...more
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Every self-respecting gearhead has a running list of places he or she wants to visit before the end of the gasoline age. When I was a kid, seeing photographs of salt-encrusted streamliners at Bonneville earned the Salt Flats a spot on my list. Images of Superbikes in the Eighties on the banks of Daytona added the raceway to my list. Seen On Any Sunday? Yup, Baja is on my list, too. And then there’s the Isle of Man TT.
The thing that put the Isle of Man TT on my list was seeing a video of Dave Roper doing a lap of the TT course on the Team Obsolete factory Benelli 350 in 1993. The first time I saw it, there was no voice over, just the sound of the Benelli four-cylinder winding up and down through the gears, the camera looking from behind the bubble with the tachometer bouncing around at the bottom of the screen. Since then I’ve seen many videos and photographs of the 100-year-old TT road course, but that on-bike footage is my favorite.
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New grandstands and 'fan zones' around the course to to be introduced for 2012 Isle of Man TT races.
Carl Fogarty delivers the commentary making this a visual tutorial. Excellent historical time capsule