IOM TT 2016

[Baldeagle7470]

I know exactly what your saying, its still cracking racing but the lack of dedicated race bikes take's something away from racing these days, apart from Moto GP the sidecar class is now the only proper race bike class & they have even forced us to use production based engines, Its not good for innovation & design.

This is why I so enjoyed watching the Suter 2 stroke,everyone loved the sound and the smell,some of the younger visitors had never even smelt Castrol R before,also the replica Moto Gp bike,different sound.
Trouble is there as on here there are always some detractors or spoilsports or killjoys,each to their own I guess but live and let live.

 

[Forestboy]

Mmmm Castrol 2 stroke brings back memories of my youth.

 

[injebreck99]

Mmmm Castrol 2 stroke brings back memories of my youth.

The smell of Castrol R mingled with frying bacon in the Snetterton paddock in my youth!, a memorable aroma l can never forget.

 

[hilldweller]

l lost interest when all the bikes became production based.

You are hard to please. Way over 200 bhp, over 200 mph. How much more do you want on a bumpy public road ?

That RCV Honda is the nearest thing you can get to a MotoGP and it got well beaten by the production bikes. I have to wonder why anyone would pay £180,000 for one.

The Norton is a sort of thinly disguised MotoGP bike isn't it. Also beaten by the production bikes.

 

[injebreck99]

200 mph is very impressive,on them roads,
I'm not disputing that, but I preferred when the races featured real racing bikes, designed solely for racing, not modified road bikes, no matter what the specs.

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[Yorick]

200 mph is very impressive,on them roads,
I'm not disputing that, but I preferred when the races featured real racing bikes, designed solely for racing, not modified road bikes, no matter what the specs.

Pure racing bikes won't cope with TT course as well as sorted proddy bikes. And wouldn't be as reliable.

 

[hilldweller]

real racing bikes, designed solely for racing, not modified road bikes, no matter what the specs.

It's splitting hairs time. There is only one ultimate race bike, it's the MotoGP bike. 1000cc, 250 bhp, Carbon brakes, light. Or you have a top sports bike in race spec. 1000cc, 240 bhp, steel brakes, heavy.

You could say that the sports bikes are designed for racing on real roads, the MotoGP guys moan like **** if there is a bit of a ripple in the tarmac and Luis Salom's death is put down to no more than ripples in the tarmac.

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

If you yearn for the smell of Castrol R and bikes that don't all look alike then I suggest you get yourself along to one of the VMCC/VMCR meetings.

 

[Forestboy]

Pure racing bikes won't cope with TT course as well as sorted proddy bikes. And wouldn't be as reliable.

Have to agree in fact I'm not sure a Motogp bike could survive 6 laps of the TT course.

 

[Enword]

Have to agree in fact I'm not sure a Motogp bike could survive 6 laps of the TT course.

I know for a fact that a F1 sidecar wont!

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[injebreck99]

If you yearn for the smell of Castrol R and bikes that don't all look alike then I suggest you get yourself along to one of the VMCC/VMCR meetings.

Already do!

 

[injebreck99]

Pure racing bikes won't cope with TT course as well as sorted proddy bikes. And wouldn't be as reliable.

Maybe not nowadays, but in the past they did cope, Yamaha TZ, MV, Manx Nortons, Honda 4 and 6, none of them modified road bikes., not as fast as today's bikes, but in their era, the racing was exiting, and the sounds much more exotic.

 

[Baldeagle7470]

At my Marshalling point at the TT managed to chat to the recent fastest newcomer ever at the TT.
Joshua Brookes ex BSB and now WSBK racer was happy to spend some time talking to us marshals,during a break in the racing.
Real nice guy.