They don't call them 'Road Warriors' for nothing, this isn't racing it's fighting on a bike. These and the roads like like them are local to me, I regularly pop down to watch them when they are down in the South of the country where I live. some of the roads actually have bits of grass growing out the middle of them. I have genuinely walked up wider garden paths than some of the roads these folks are reaching 200mph on. Proper mental.
Thanks guys! Guy Martin drives anything and everything! From bicycles to rocket ships / jet engine cars on a "sea bed" in a desert. And F1 Racing boats etc.. He has his own TV-series, where he tries / drives to break "records" with everything that moves. Idris Elba has similar shows also. (Maybe for Lucy...)😍😍
"The Isle Of Men: The World's Deadliest Motorcycle Race" is a good vid that interviews one of the riders that had a nasty crash back in 2010 and gives some of the history and info about the race as well (the TT specifically), highly recommend to check it out.
The prize money for the Isle of Man TT is peanuts compared to other races and the risks potentially incurred - the prize in itself is simply to have survived and done one's best, to stand tall and say I did it! Many people, unfortunately, die every year during this race and these guys truly are monsters in their art. It's accurately nicknamed the deadliest race on the planet for a solid and very unfortunate reason: It is. This sort of thing is in the fiber of our beings and given the death toll other nations would have banned it - but it has luckily become an institution and persists despite those who lobby for it to be halted. Raise a glass to the road warriors ... they're legends !!!
They don't try to pull the front wheel off the ground. They are just putting so much power to weight ratio to the pavement that the front end gets light. They do all they can to keep it down
The front wheel coming up is a result of torque when you put the power on and not by choice. One usually puts ones weight as far forward as possible to prevent it but there's so much power that it's unavoidable when you're really trying to keep another guy behind you or overtake. As far as going fast in a straight line, once you get to 150mph you can't hear the engine because of the wind noise and you start wondering what would happen if something went wrong with the bike like a blow-out, chain snapping or engine seizure. Once you get to 200mph plus it starts to feel like it's not real any more. I've only done this once on a circuit and would never do it again. I nearly shat myself and my bike didn't enjoy it much either. Love you guys. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
The part at 3:50 that they're talking about was 100% intentional though, he knew exactly what he was doing there and that there was a camera in front of him lmao. You can even see him pulling up on the bars.
Joey Dunlop Ulster Grand Prix Dundrod The Best Race Ever No Questions asked Beating The New Yamaha R1 This Is The Pinnacle of Road Racing The Master Joey Dunlop showing the Foriengers How to Race If you have the Nerve watch the Race it is Pure Class, We Miss You Joey and David Ride on Brothers Please watch the race Guys you will Love it.
Guy Martin retired in 2017, he said he was just bored with the yearly race routine and schedule, and two of the other riders in this video have since died racing. RIP to both of them. 🙏🙏 BTW, Guy Martin is at the 5:29 mark.
The sheer power of these bikes can put you on your rear wheel Also when you're using these roads it isn't a track so you got to position your bike to land properly and not come down on your front wheel as the road goes up and down and has bumps init..... I know these roads 👍
They aren't lifting the front wheel on purpose, in fact they are struggling to keep the front wheel down, the bikes have so much power that they lift the front wheel automatically when accelerating hard. The bumps, drops and crests also don't help in keeping the front wheel down either. 😁
With it being in Ireland, I thought the speeds were in kph. Holy cow. 200 mph with no protection except a helmet. No thanks. Great reaction. Brad, have you flipped Lucy off on camera?
@@AnglOsAxOn2 Only the Southern 100, headed by the aerial shot of Castletown, was on the Isle of Man. The rest was in Ireland, all in Northern Ireland I think, certainly the end piece without music was at Dundrod, home of the Ulster GP.
@@AnglOsAxOn2 No worries. The Southern 100 does tend to be overshadowed by the TT and I, being on the far side of the world, only recently became aware of Oliver's Mount in Scarborough. There was talk of a road race on the Isle of Wight, we'll see how that goes.
Have a look at Guy Martin documentaries. He runs a truck service company but also owns a merlin spitfire engine and does lots of crazy challenges. Just type his name into RU-vid. He’s awsome
There's a great documentary called ' Road' narrated by Liam nesson which is about the Isle of man tt and the Dunlop family who are legends in the sport. I would recommend it to anyone. But I think you guys would really enjoy it.
Joey Dunlop was the king of all road racers from Ballymoney northern Ireland you should check him out ho won the TT many many time's his brother brother also excellent they both died at what they loved doing
The front wheel rises under acceleration. Sheer power. They’re struggling to keep the wheel down. Also, some of these guys are now dead. Richard Britton and Martin Finnegan and there’s probably a few more as well.
They are not pulling their front wheel up by choice it is caused by torque under hard acceleration on flat areas and on bumpy areas or crests torque and speed will pop it up pretty easily. The camera on the bike is a felliw racer they are not doing a track tour.
It seems like ye like the on board camera . If so check out Peter Hickmans chin camera it gives a real look at what the riders have to deal with ! It’s only a demo lap of the TT .So it’s about 21/2 minutes of his race pace .
Just so you know, the Isle of Man is between the Uk and Ireland it belongs to either Country. That said it is a self governing British dependency. The bit where the rider was filmed in first person view, it was not a rider behind him or above, that was Guy Martin with a camera. Guy Martin was/is a legend of the TT races. You are right it had feck all to do with money it was all about the riding and getting around the circuit without dying.
I've raced cars in real life quite a bit over the years, no where near these speeds or level though lol. But in my experience, the first time you have a shit your pants moment, it either scares you to the point you call it a day, which is what happens for most people, or.. it gives you such a thrill you become addicted to that sudden burst of adrenaline. You kinda know there and then if you love it or not. Once you have the bug, everything else stops being scary. The real pros learn to control the adrenaline and by doing this they enter the most euphoric place a human can probably go. Some people liken the effects to heroin or compare it to the feeling people get with near death experiences, almost like a DMT trip. I can't quite describe it but the pursuit of that happy place is what all these extreme sports guys are chasing like a drug.
Imagine how much trust you must have in your mechanic. To be flat-out at well over 320kph and that engine screaming at 13000 rpm...literally your life in their hands. Amazing. Oh and by the way you've both never sounded more Canadian than just then, ey? Keep it up. B.C.Bud rules!😂
Why did so many people write about Irish you should already be aware that this island is autonomous neither Ireland nor England this island belongs to the British Crown.
Motorbikes basically have two large gyroscopes (wheels) that try to keep the bike going in a straight line, so leaning into turns is normal on all bikes, as is counter steering where you turn the handlebars gently in the opposite direction to the way you want to go which tightens the turn....most cyclists and bikers do this subconsciously but racers have to make more aggressive movements and put more weight on the inside of turns. Hope this helps🏍️💨💨🏍️💨💨👍🍻😈
3:50 his is not pulling his front wheel. Due to the speed they are going and with a descending road it's almost inevitable to keep the wheel on the ground
Here in Ireland 🇮🇪 & Northern Ireland we have many road races and there's very few places in the world one can road race apart from Ireland, Isle of Mann, UK,Macau, Estonia and Italy as far as I know but banned everywhere else.
Visitor to the TT Isle Of Men since 1992. Highly recommend, always worth it. USA have Pikes Peak, Britten have Isle Of Men, we have the "the green Hell"( Nordschleife) and the German autobahn. 😁 Greetings from Germeny
@@bollebanana7331 thanks, bro, but my riding days are behind me. Retired in 1992. I always wanted to do Isle Of Man & Paris-Dakar, but didn't manage either before it was too late. It's true what you said; most cultures/regions seem to have one Great Crazy Race; I was lucky to have grown up at the foot of Pike's Peak. 👍
Yes and please don't confuse any of the Dunlops with Guy Martin who is a television personality/celebrity, a nice guy I'm sure, but not a road racing legend.
You might enjoy this, it's a full lap of the TT circuit. POV - camera on the front of the bike. Might not work for a reaction video but it's a great watch nonetheless 👍 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5KzBnuxDnYQ.html
