| The TT Races 17:22 - Jun 8 with 1162 views | ZXBlue |
How on earth does an event that kills several competitors every year continue?
Whilst I am all for making one's own choices, there is no other sport that would be allowed to continue. |  | | |  |
| The TT Races on 17:30 - Jun 8 with 1116 views | clive_baker |
Jump racing? |  |
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| The TT Races on 17:32 - Jun 8 with 1113 views | jaykay |
also spectators |  |
| forensic experts say footers and spruces fingerprints were not found at the scene after the weekends rows |
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| The TT Races on 17:33 - Jun 8 with 1107 views | tazdac |
There does seem to have been a few this year :o( | | | |
| The TT Races on 17:33 - Jun 8 with 1098 views | jeera |
Cheese rolling? |  |
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| The TT Races on 17:35 - Jun 8 with 1092 views | ZXBlue |
| The TT Races on 17:33 - Jun 8 by tazdac |
There does seem to have been a few this year :o( |
I looked it up. Its not anything unusual. 4 is about average. Only one year with no fatalities ever. | | | |
| The TT Races on 17:47 - Jun 8 with 1062 views | Plums |
It’s a fair point. I’m mystified that Love Island continues with its track record. |  |
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| The TT Races on 17:51 - Jun 8 with 1056 views | Illinoisblue |
So long as everyone is aware of the risks, I don’t see a problem with it. |  |
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| The TT Races on 17:52 - Jun 8 with 1045 views | XYZ |
Darwinism | | | |
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| The TT Races on 18:11 - Jun 8 with 1000 views | MrBurley |
More people die from fishing. | | | |
| The TT Races on 18:16 - Jun 8 with 992 views | Trequartista |
I was thinking about posting something similar. I'm naturally inclined to let people do these things of their own free will with their own Health and Safety being their own responsibility, but there appears to be guaranteed death or serious injury every year, worse than Formula 1 in the 1970s. Seems a bit extreme doesn't it. |  |
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| The TT Races on 18:28 - Jun 8 with 951 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
I raced a TZ350 in the early 80s. Never did the TT as even at that tender age, I saw the risks were too high. But I do understand people who choose to do it. It's a huge part of the Manx economy, and of course they self govern. For anyone who has never been to the TT, it is mind blowing. Nowhere else can you stand on the pavement of a pub with a pint in hand, and be within 6ft of Superbike going past at over 190mph with the front wheel a foot off the ground. The combination of noise and speed is just shocking. You will have a completely new perspective on risk if you go and see it. |  |
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| The TT Races on 18:40 - Jun 8 with 908 views | BiGDonnie |
Just seen footage of one of this years death - ridiculous speed head on into a building. Fook that. RIP. |  |
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| The TT Races on 19:00 - Jun 8 with 855 views | textbackup |
| The TT Races on 18:11 - Jun 8 by MrBurley |
More people die from fishing. |
Swap the ‘h’ for a ‘t’ and I wonder the death rate on that |  |
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| The TT Races on 19:15 - Jun 8 with 819 views | NthQldITFC |
| The TT Races on 19:00 - Jun 8 by textbackup |
Swap the ‘h’ for a ‘t’ and I wonder the death rate on that |
But if you don't die from it, it makes your whole week. |  |
| # WE ARE STEALING THE FUTURE FROM OUR CHILDREN --- WE MUST CHANGE COURSE # | | Poll: | It's driving me nuts |
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| The TT Races on 19:36 - Jun 8 with 779 views | bluelagos |
Everyone who has ever ridden a motorbike knows how dangerous it is when it goes wrong. The speeds the TT racers go and the fact the course are ordinary roads, means crashes are far more likely to be fatal than crashes on race tracks.
Most deaths are usually on the middle Sunday when the course is opened up to spectators to ride on their own bikes. There are no speed limits (outside of towns) and bikers die with all too regular frequency.
I'd limit the Sunday free for all before the actual racing. Modern bikes are so powerful, so beyond the capability of your average biker, its mental. My bike is more powerful than anything Barry Sheene raced on. I know I am nowhere near the skill level of BS. Yet on the Sunday I can give it the full beans, legally on the TT course and inevitably, it sometimes goes wrong :-( |  |
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