American Reacts to Isle of Man TT Full Lap - POV Chin Camera 

My Uncle, Ted Fenwick was the oldest to ever win the TT races. His race number was always his age. He raced in his late 80's.

Ate you kidding??? He's having fun! His front wheel spent most of it's time in the air 😂

I have a strange feeling THIS could be a future destination for Young JPS to witness for himself. NOT as a Rider but as a Spectator... Tony in England

The two guys in the orange jackets are not spectators they are safety marshalls

I drive around the countryside with the low winter sun at 30/40mph and it's brutal. To do it at those speeds is insanity on top of insanity.

I’ve been once to the TT Isle of Man and these riders have balls of steel. The speed is unbelievable and these are normal street roads with trees, and brick walls to cushion a crash. Insanely dangerous but amazing skill. These guys are top draw

It's mind blowing that they average over 130mph, through 264 corners on a 37 mile course and achieve 200mph down the Sulby Straight, this event just amazing.

When you express the fatalities as a fraction of how many laps are raced during the TT, it is remarkable that there are not more deaths. A testament to the machines and the skill of the riders.

My home is on the right at 11.10 of your video..the greatest show on earth, literally on my doorstep i wouldn't swap it for anything in the world😎

The front tyre had problems staying on the ground! lol Great lap and loved it even as a 62yo! lol Edit: This was a practice session/pole session and hardly any spectators present except the 'Track marshalls' in hi-vis orange jackets.

They are a different breed of human these guys.

The "bobsled" is actually a two man sidecar outfit waiting to be recovered, Peters demo lap was preceded by one of the two sidecar TTs. It's worth having a look at "The Insane World of Sidecar Racing" by Driver 61. As for the wheelies, he was popping them all round the course, someone calculated his front wheel did two miles less than the rear. Dropping down from Creg-Ny- Baa he changes up through the box to top gear with the front in the air. Btw, they paint "slow" on the road for us mere mortals.😉

I am an island native - cool to see you have heard of where I come from and reacting to some content from my home! Even a lot of people from the rest of the UK have no idea where the island is, you would be surprised.

That anxious look again. Love it, thought you might burst into tears. Another cracking vid. Hi from North Wales.

The most entertaining part of this video is watching your expressions 😅

@ItsJPS Great reaction mate💯👍.I don't think my butt could handle going round at those speeds (even as a passenger)..My Dad got to go watch as a young man (50yrs ago).Even then an incredible experience.Have a good weekend ALL

This was a feel out the bike and road test He's deliberately doing wheelies in certain sections He was also waving at spectators Hicky is a madman and extremely skilled

Going there is just something else. Things you dont notice on videos are things like bits of the riders leathers on a sticky out bit of wall where they get that close that shave the wall. Bikes jump and flex when they land and send the rider into crazy shapes. If you ride and know what 120 feels like on the motorway, you know this is mental to the next level.

I lived on the island and my parents still do. To give you an idea the 1st part of the lap from douglas to the hump back bridge at ballaugh takes about 30-35 minutes in a car and that’s when not hanging around (although not a sports car) . Most of the fast sections have no speed limits for all traffic. The whole lap in a “normal” car at normal speeds is over an hour.

The TT is the reason I moved to the Isle Man from Dorset in England. Oh and the low tax 😂

Hicky rides in the British Superbike track series, but it's riding the TT that gets him out of bed in the morning. BSB is a great series and worth watching, if you're into bike racing and can get coverage of it over there.

He’s been doing wheelies the whole lap😂😂😂😂

The 'bob sled' is a racing sidecar bike.

The 1st time I saw this was in the tele but it as live It made me ill.... I made all the cups of tea... just to get out the room 😮

On the straight he's in 6th gear flat out on the max revs & that's approximately 186 mph 😮 no fear absolutely loving it & probably would go even faster if the bike would do it, total respect

A good demo on how to save on front tyre wear. Just keep it off the ground for a considerable portion of the lap.

He definitely pulled quite a few wheelies.

Was there last year, absolutely fabulous experience. Hicky is also a great circuit rider and is racing each year in the British superbike championship. Also, that was a bike and side car at 22:18 obviously broken down on a lap.

Here in Ireland we have a road racing season. Isle of man is the main event. We have nice walls in Ireland too 😎

Hicky holds the current TT lap record of 136.4mph AVERAGE speed over the 37 odd mile course 😱 16.38 minutes ( give or take a few tenths lol) This is him hooning around ( at 118mph ffs 😱🤦🤣) apparently the analytics said his front wheel did TWO miles less than his rear one 😱😱😱 Absolute mahoosive brass cojones.....cant wait fir this years TT 💓

There is an onboard video from his 136mph lap record. The difference is insane, he’s all business!

In my mid 20s I went through a bike stage of my life and did a seven day course passed my bike test and got my first bike.. A K2 blue Suzuki GSX-R 750.. now that was fast enough every time I got off it, I was shaking 😂 when you come out of the corner and you pin the throttle and smack it through the gears without using the clutch. The back squats down and the front lifts up. It’s an experience you can never explain without getting on a bike and do-it-yourself. Miss those days back in 2005 every Sunday seven of us would go out on our bikes ride round North wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 pop down to the industrial estate popping wheelies and having a great day out with £10 worth of petrol in the tank.. good old days! I’m 44 now, I might not have the bike anymore but I still have my leathers 😆all they fit.. 😂

Pause it at 24.31 ,..that shot probably says it all. Him watching his own wheelie xD.

I went to the Isle of Man years ago with Amy first husband with a view to moving there. Yes it has grass verges and some pretty areas, but the port of Douglas looked like any other grim port in winter. Grey, run down, old BnB’s that needed thousands spending on them, it was generally a mess. I’m glad we didn’t move there. I hope it’s better now, but at that point it was going downhill fast. Those roads weren’t thin. Where I used to live in Kent there were some thin roads that you can barely get your car down. Yorkshire has some beautiful areas. I’ve been there too.

There is something quite addictive about the sound of a sports bike as it hits the rev limiter. Sadly, the 'baby' 600cc bikes, even in first gear if you're hitting that rev limiter means you're probably well in excess of the speed limit. Never mind getting to 6th gear at 14k RPM.

My friend nothing can prepare for this aswome spectical, FROM the start line going down bray hill flat out at 180 mph and powering out on the back wheel feeling at 180 mph, absolutely mind blowing,the greatest and most dangerous motorcycle racing in the world 🌎 you have to be made of steel to race this circuit

The organisers talk of the different corners on the course in terms of number of years riding the course, like some will be a 3 year corner to get around at a good pace on the correct line at optimum speed.

We watched the TT for years before moving here. There's nothing like it in the world. I still remember my first time watching on Bray Hill, it literally took my breath away. Something to experience if you ever get the chance.

Joel - The best vid for the IOM TT is on RU-vid and called (Isle of Man TT - The greatest sport on the planet) Best of the Best.

22:17 Police speed radar trap? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

If you've never ridden before, go do a motorcycle training course, they're usually a day long and you'll have the smallest grasp of it of how much skill is need to ride at speeds like these, a new world of appreciation. A fun day out if nothing else as well.

Great choice Joel!!! Wow. Thanks, John in Canada p.s. counting the weeks until returning to the UK. I've never considered visiting the Isle of Man. It looks great on Google Maps!!

I know the track today because i played the 3 videogames TT Isle of Man - ride on the edge. Very fun to play and even in the game you feel the adrenaline. Huge fan here from these sport. Cheers.

I never managed to see the TT but i've been there a few times as a kid when my Dad used to shoot in competitions and it was a picturesque place to visit.

I just looked up the fastest lap outright and it goes to this chap (Peter Hickman) in 2018 on a BMW 1000RR with a time of 16.42.778

The surroundings, typical English country countryside and most rural roads here look like that. The walls, we call them dry stone walls, i.e. no mortar used in construction.. Building them is a skill that goes back centuries, if not thousands of years. Yellow flag, 'What even is that?' that is a sidecar team. The TT isn't just about one person & two wheels :)

Imagine watching this on a VR 😂 I'd probably cry.

I think the driver (Peter Hickman) enjoyed this "smooth" ride. 5th gear wheelies > 200 kph, no ticking race-clock. Just fun. Some say TT = titan testicles. I would agree.😄

He's 100% doing wheelies, in full race pace the lights on the dash would be hitting red constantly

Incredible riding. Balls of steel Come off and hit an immovable object your dead. Respect.

17:30 Can't speak for these professional racers learning new courses, but certainly for most people in the UK who own a sports bike, there are a lot of really nice roads, that are a lot like those on the IOM. It's where most people first get the taste of speed on twisty roads and then being able to open her up a little.

Maybe he needs a little bit of aero to keep the front down? Perhaps auto aero that adjust the angle depending on speed, wheel height, throttle position etc.

JP check out mark higgins x rally driver & stunt driver do a a lap of the IOMTT fastest lap ever in a car?

fastest motorcycle race in the world!

Every time I watch a lap of The Isle of Man TT, as soon as it’s over I realise I’ve been tensed up the entire time.

TT 1994 - Steve Hislop - Honda RC45 - On Bike this is worth a watch , the late, great Hizzy . Lap commentary

Hi you should go the Isle of Man and watch the TT it scary seeing them going past so quickly close to walls and kerbs. Keep up the videos !

It's actually mental, I'd probably die on the first corner going that fast and that ain't even full speed

He has some stones. My mate been on a ride or meet with him and says he's a lovely guy too.

The way they handle the imperfections in the road is what amazes me the most.

You should totally react to the video of Peter Hickman completing a world record lap time with laser focus.

I’m going this year can’t wait! Be my third time going best race on the planet

from what i remember you cant just enter this race, you have to have solid background in racing for a few years, then you enter the slowest category of the TT still fast though and after racing and doing well in that you move up in class Supersport > Superstock > Superbike TT/Senior and them riders could most prob do the race with a blindfold on they know every inch of the track, it was posted somewhere the data from the lap and his rear tire did like 5 or 6 miles more than it front due to him having fun and wheeling so much

My sisters class mate who i knew from local pub went every year. He wasn't a pro but raced round getting faster each time until one year late 90s he didn't come back alive so yeh people RIP there.

I miss my bikes. When idling it's sounds so soothing and quiet. Get the revs up to 1200 - 1400 RPM and it sounds like a pissed off glaswegian on stella artois. 45 years without coming off. Apart from the fear of breaking myself I really loved my bikes and couldn't stand the thought of even scratching them let alone wrecking them. I know, I'm a wimp but they were my only mode of transport and I rode them through ice and snow and everything in between just to get to work and back. Not a toy, a vehicle.

something to note, reading some information, the rpm of a normal 1000rr is 13500rpm, the hp4 top revs is 14500rpm, official 6500rpm speed is approximately 190mph, at many points Peter Hickman is hitting max revs in 6th for a long duration, quite possibly pushing his speeds up to 210 or 220mph, as for the front wheel lifting, its happened quite a few times, being a biker having ridden a lot less powerfull bikes you still get the feel for when the front end is dancing or lifting, the part you are really missing is that this is his chinstrap camera, which means he has approximately a foot of helmet ontop of this, and exactly how close his head is to the walls and trees sometimes 22:28 i think that might be a bike with sidecar - separate race series also at the tt isle of man

Most people say it takes 3 or 4 years to get familiar with the circuit and fully up to speed.

I've seen the TT but it was a long time ago, I think I was 12 when my father wanted to see it, so I went with my parents and brother. And that would have been in 1956 so a rather different race, smaller bikes for instance. But still amazing. It's important to remember that during the races there are people lining the route on either side of the roads. As we did. But standing in one place you see very little, as they flash by so fast. When I was 15 I used to go yo Speedway dirt track races with my boyfriend. That is just as exciting. The noise, the smell, you never forget it. I wonder if home owners beside the route move out for the time it's on as the noise must be horrendous. :) It's hard to see the walls you mentioned clearly but they are probably dry stone walls.

This looks infinitely more extreme because we're not looking through the driver's eyes. Instead, we're looking at severely unstable video footage. Your body dampens the view infinitely better than what you see here. That's no reflection on the superhuman skills these maestros have.

When your senses and adrenaline are at an all time high 😂

Check out mark Higgins in board camera full lap in a subaru.4 wheels is still pretty scary & makes you appreciate even more the 2 wheels.+ The subaru has full roll bars etc for safety.still hit a not to shabby 170mph at times

It is a public road, when not used for the GP. So, you could ride the course restricted to speed limits, and two way traffic 👍 Bobsled...Sidecar!

Proper respect for anyone who rides the TT only the best in the world dare race there..

It's also worth noting that this isn't a full on race bike that has been built by a team... this is a bike that the public can buy from any BMW dealership. It's aimed at trackday enthusiasts and isn't road legal, but it's available direct from your local dealership!

29:52 I know some racers don't have a road legal motorcycle licence, as crazy as it seems. Professional racers didn’t have a regular motorcycle license for road use, they get issued race licences and that's totally different. For example, Michael Dunlop one of the most successful in TT racers, racking up over 25 wins, only got his road motorcycle licence this year at the age of 34. In the UK though, even if you have a road licence, it'd still be much better than jumping back in a car. As 'lane splitting' is not only legal, but expected of motorcycles as part of their licence conditions to show that they're able to make progress in traffic. It's called filtering in the UK.

The mad thing is you can turn up that week and go around the track no speed limits on your own bike, just arrive and off you go

So scary, those drivers are insanely good and crazy, GG to them.

JPS save up your dollars and go to the TT,nothing compares believe you me.I have been many times and every time it really grips you,only prob is once is never enough.Makes F1 and Nascar seem like an afternoon stroll.

That bob slay on the side of the road was bike and side car. You should watch them too. The passenger in the side car move around for ballance worth a watch.

The IOM TT is a fantastic race, for riders and spectators, but the main thing is to respect the Island and the circuit. I drove the circuit in a car in 2 hours, but being careful of course. For me the best places to watch are the Creg and Bray Hill, anywhere would be but resect farmers fields and gardens etc. But I did compete in the Ramsey sprint one year so there are losts to do and don't forget the othe 40,000 plus other spectators and enjoy the experience

That was w either a broken down bike or a crashed bike. ❤

@itsjps You should also check out video title 'Mark Higgins Full Record Breaking POV TT Lap' 600hp Subaru Impreza.

That thing you saw on the side of the road without understanding what it was, was a sidecar. Sidecars also race at the TT as well as motorbikes if you didn't know. They are equally impressive but the participants are definitely even crazier! Really too crazy!

Also talking about the low sun add on his visor is covered in dead bugs which he obvs can't wipe off for smudging

Terrifying. I’m so anxious watching this, and that low sun !!! I went to the I.O.M in the late 70s for the TT, and sat on the side of the road, but it never made me feel like this!

22:25 That was a 'sidecar'.

You should try watching some MotoGP where they not only get their knee down but their elbow and sometime their shoulder.

Casual look to the left to check his shadow and confirm 'Yep, that's a wheelie!'

Yes mate when they hit full throttle the front wheel comes off the ground , it you listen close enough you can hear him lift off very slightly to control get the wheel back down. They are totally flat out on some sections - watching live is an experience on another level and I am not a bike fan. It’s also worth watching the car lap record. Both bikes and car riders are literally without fear and at times a second from certain death. This isn’t a circuit and the run off area is a solid brick wall. The bikes are often close to 200 mph. The whole thing is the pinnacle of motor sport and drivers who belong in an asylum 😂

Isle of Man is an island between the UK and Ireland

NEED to get a desktop fan made that blows less-and-more powerful with lower-and-louder noises!...... Then, point the fan at ur face, put the volume and bass up to full on the theatre surround system, place a petrol soaked sponge nearby for the aroma, play this video in the VR headset, and sit on your bike in the living room!!! Could even have tea and toast too !!

peter hickman is one of the nicest guy in motor sport, alway's has time for the fans

One thing I noticed when I went to the isle of man no pot holes any were thank god

Most of the Spectator Fatalities are the Spectators that take to the track on bikes between events, with no speed limit. Edit: Great Vid as always

Come and ride here in the UK we will show you guys whats it all about 😂

A few things.. He was wheelieing like every 3 seconds He’s insanely close to the curbs He’s not even race speed He’s crazy

You would have to know the route pretty well, I'd say - to know which part of the road was best for riding in, whilst also preparing for bends and stuff ahead... and not just know it - but do so in a variety of different weather conditions too, as the IOM is basically just a huge rock in the middle of the Irish Sea, with nothing around but 50+ miles of wind and waves, I mean, anything could happen! I guess it probably feels like a slightly bumpier hovercraft ride for the most part, as his front wheel does seem to spend a lot of time hovering a few inches above the road surface. And yes - I'd never thought of the air pollution aspect, which is probably why the IOM is a good place for it to happen. The noise would completely do my head in, I have to say! That thing at the side of the road looked like a sidecar, by the way: I think there might be a bike & sidecar race; though that one appears to have parted company with its motorcycle! It could almost feature in the classic, Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy comedy sketch, with the sidecar making off down a hillside on its own' let's hope the parting was slightly less dramatic that that, and the the occupant wasn't injured in the process! So, couple of nights in Dublin with a day trip to the IOM is it, Joel - see a bit of Ireland before heading across on the Holyhead Ferry thence onwards to England via Wales? It's about time you went to these places....

I’ve had the pleasure of doing that circuit in various ways. An Escort Cosworth, a Grinnel Scorpion, a bicycle race (IOM Cycle Week) and a Yamaha R1. I forgot what my own personal best was from Douglas to Peel, but it was fast! But you are correct, it is a great place to visit and live. Where you stopped the video on the top of the mountain was broken down sidecar.

This might be a stupid question , but what is the big black object in the middle of the windscreen? It seems it’s just blocking the vision and making it more risky.

Kings of the TT were Joey Dunlop and Steve Hislop check out their laps oh and John McGuiness of course