Fastest EVER Lap of the Isle of Man TT | Peter Hickman - 136.358mph 

He is travelling over 300 feet per second. You stick a big Phantom on his lid he won't be as quick.

you can easily have 4k 120fps we need telemetry as well

This video is only 25fps for some reason, a shame.

not only mad but suicidal

From photographing war in 1856 to onboard real-life pod-racing. Here we are. Imagine showing this footage to guys racing in 1920- something.

Adrenaline does the job i guess. Still mindblowing though

They also know every bit of the track like the back of their hand. Superhuman skills

Driving fast for an extended period of time makes you blind to the speed

This is what i allways wonder also , everything is insane , but how do you memorise all pieces of sutch a long circuit at that speed !

@@raiospartaonick people think racing is just dumb driving/riding they don't take into account all the other skills involved. Like the guys who race the nurburgring at blistering speeds, or pikes peak. A huge part is knowing exactly which turn to take at which speed in exactly which gear. The mental strength it takes along with just keeping the vehicle on the pavement is unreal. Jedi shit

The green one is the culprit!!!

Whoa lol

Guy Martin said that

@@avfeastmedia8323 No, it was Joey Dunlop.

@@mirandahotspring4019that was me

👴🏻🥃 TODD PACKER 24

I guess at those speeds, what’s a few mph going to do to reduce your safety 😂

🤔 It was alright definitely room for improvement 😁

@@beauzo9965What is your best average speed ?

@@MisterTwister88 my speed is not average, some might say it is excessive

​@@beauzo9965I thought the same.. Specially approaching corners

man I am lucky to be in the 18s as a 47 year old man TT3 PS5 that is

That's just one lap he has got five more to go, six laps for the senior TT.

@@richardsutton7125Correct ! The only tea break they get is for the pit stop 😀

Tiktok really made people forget that you can concentrate for more than 30 seconds at a time.

@@steelhead750 Concentration isn't a binary, you need alot more concentration to control a bike at record braking speeds than you need when reading a book

@@Puddingtops bow ow wotah

Agreed. Been and Seen. It looks good on TV. But nothing prepares you for seeing it in person. There's almost a shockwave that comes off the bike as it passes. I was at Cronk y Voddy in 2017. Can't be described. Must be experienced.

Do they have to modify the bikes to accommodate the watermelon-sized balls of these guys? They must have to carry them around in a wheelbarrow.

Oh man, I can't begin to imagine what that experience must be like. One of these days I'm going to find out though first hand, when my brother and myself head across the pond to get the real Isle of Man TT experience!! Gotdamn I can't wait.......

Your never more alive than when you've just cheated death. What an adrenalin rush!

​@tfitz47 hope you enjoy it pal, its something to behold, you won't regret it

Can't play it safe if you want to win

🥃👴🏻 BILL COSBY 24

Peter obviously knows the course like the back of his hand.

That's the only way to get record breaking laps in.. should see the way Michael Dunlop manhandles a 1000 round here

So a musical soundtrack

“Milky” Quayle describes it like a musical instrument, overwritten by self-talk, urging complete commitment & timing, to the moment you pop up out of the bubble and begin heavy breaking for a hard turn, down a gear, “ping…wah….ping….wah” as the bike slows & the lowered gear causes the pitch to jump up each time, then pushing into the turning point and looking for the apex, waiting, waiting to begin to pick the machine up out of the turn & get the throttle pinned again….

I love the way, through a series of left, right, left bends, just a bit before Ballagh bridge near the halfway mark, that each time he lays the bike over, the tyre is rotating on an edge where the rolling diameter is reduced & so the motors pitch rises, even though the speed on the road is nearly constant. It takes a lot to get close to that effect off a race track. You can’t ordinarily get as committed as that.

Not a musical sound track BUT one of the best sound tracks I've ever heard if not the best

I for one wish he woulda put some hip hop music over the annoying engine sounds

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!

I guess this is the the difference between common people and pilots !

... with dry-stone walls skimming past the top of his head

And hit 202mph through the speed trap!

must be taking 10,000 mg of omega 3 and 20,000 mg of nutritional yeast before the race..

That's what I keep saying

Not to take anything away from this because it is just incredible, but onboard cameras always make racing look more insane than it is, being fixed and in 2D etc. Same in F1.

They know this route the same if not better than you know your commute to work. They run this course on simulators hundreds and thousands of times.

​@@nuntana2No it doesn't. Onboard makes this look comprehensive compared to the fly by videos where you don't know how that's even possible. Also when I see this I think this is absolutely crazy but to a certain point (of course not as fast as them) I would dare doing it. Since I live in Germany, it's easier to try this but let me tell you.. A few minutes flat out over or at 200kph and you're thinking to yourself "alright let's chill now...". These guys are absolutely mental.. I had the pleasure to drive the new Fireblade once on a country road. I won't say how fast I went but to see the trees flying past you, turning that thing so fast at full acceleration and high speeds, I don't know how this is even possible to do. Especially for older man like John since I'm way way younger and very fit. I try to understand it but I still don't know how this works in real life..

​​@@Jacksonvillian904I don't know about the simulators since there is no excellent TT game. Good simulators cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars like in F1. The price money for a senior win is around 30000 pounds I believe. They don't have the money for that. There is the TT game for PC or console. I think to this day I still hold most of the records there and I know every inch of that virtual track by now. But I still would never go flatout in real life based on the simulator times and it's a really good game I have to say. But one small difference between game and real life and you're dead. James Hillier said something good: "There are corners which you can take at 100% but it's a risk.." They're not flatout everywhere but they almost are which makes them unbelievably fast overall but every time they go near 100%, the risk multiplies. But some riders like Hickman or Dunlup don't seem to care😅

I remember there was a fatal crash cause the engine seized. Imagine it happens when you're doing a corner at such speed.

Amount of trust he has in the road maintenance guys is insane

@@virupakshawalla5734 facts lmao

​@virupakshawalla5734 im fairly certain a team inspects the entire track multiple times before the race.

Trusting the machine is trusting yourself

Almost as if a video was just multiple photographs chained together!

When you start watching it on your office chair as an ex biker. You start moving your head left and right. You start moving you body as if the chair was the bike You get dizzy. Having said that we need a 360 ! And a double spirit..

Even sitting at the side of the road there is a roll of the dice

Looking like PS1 NPC’s I swear 😮‍💨

@@zakelwe Started doing this just sat on the sofa - and I don’t even own a bike 😹

Rear wheel distance is always going to vary though, since the circumference of the tyre is lower on the outside edge, which is where you spend more time during cornering. So, if you calculate the distance of the course based on rear wheel size at it's highest circumference point (the middle of the tyre's width), it will actually travel a higher distance over the 37.7 mile course since there are so many corners where the lower tyre size of the outer edges are in contact with the road (lower circumference means it has to rotate more times to cover the same distance than the higher circumference edge) A good example of this is just after 16:14, when he takes the left hand turn, you can hear the engine RPM increase quite quickly when he doesn't seem to be accelerating that much into a corner that he starts immediately slowing down for. This is because he's travelling at the same speed but the wheel (and therefore, the crankshaft) is spinning faster. You can watch at 0.25x speed too, if I'm not convincing you but I ride sportsbikes too and it's something I've noticed in my years!

I agree.

​@@RTSRAZORBACKok, then comprehend me the front tire underage, for 37 miles at 136 mph in some technical non jaw dropping way. Ty, just an ordinary guy..

@@deanhil3978 simple... Front wheel in air = front wheel no turn = less distance travelled

That's debatable, perhaps there's some minor differences but probably not miles. Even when the front is briefly in the air for a few seconds the front wheel still keeps spinning.

🤣 👌👌👌

The question is, how does he fit them in his suit? ⚾⚾'s that is.

37.73 miles to be exact - it matters when calculating the speed, which I can do precisely. If anyone wants to test me with ANY time, over ANY amount of laps...

@@michaellooney1089 lol

@@michaellooney1089 are you referring dick sizes here or the lap distance of the tt course

I guess they think a lot less than bass players!

They won't be processing that much in real time like it's a surprise, they'll know what they need to do well in advanced. Something called muscle memory comes into play. After you've done the same lap hundreds of times, starting from a slow pace and gradually getting faster, you eventually remember where every bump, dip and everything else is. You learn where the vehicle starts to lose grip or where you can extract more grip because of the camber of the road, where the latest braking points are, etc. Then, you go out there with all of that muscle memory pieced together and attempt to re-enact that memory as best you can, "I do this when I get to here".

@@LewisHamiltonMSPR yes. That’s true but still, things change, tires aren’t exactly the same, temperatures, wind exc… some racers seem to be able to shut off the self preservation instinct and just trust that everything will go according to plan.

Do a lap with Guy Martin commentating sometime. They know every kerb. Every tree. Every drain.

@@o0pinkdino0o i mean would they still "be here" if they didnt?

Yeah, I once did 150mph on a motorway in England, on an FZR1000 EXUP, just after dawn, when it was empty. It's just a complete blur unless you're looking way down the road ahead.

Lots of that used to go on in UK. Mate on the back of mate’s bike was doing 150+. Quite a few twisties on the route. Never again he said lol. Bearing in mind here, Hick was doing over 200mph in places!

if you own an R1 and havent had it screaming at the top of 6th you dont deserve that bike...

@@QuicknStraight Have reached 168mph in a TVR Griffith numerous times and that felt amazing. Once you get up to that speed, there is no margin for error. The other cars around seem like they are in slow motion.

This lap was from the second superstock race not the senior.

This isn't from the Senior...the Senior actually wasn't very quick this year compared to the Superbike and Stock races

@@chrisclifford4109 It nearly like they all ran out of steam by the Senior race.

@@fordwrc2006 his point still stands. Hicky is the king of senior

@@ronnykazadi352 indeed but the fast lap didn’t come in the Senior but Superstock race 2 on the M1000RR with the carbon wheels etc.

If you look up the IOM TT 2018 stats, Hickman's 2018 senior lap average speed is 135.452mph, and on his super stock bike, his AVG is still a wopping 134.403mph!! that year, Which is only 1.49mph slower than on his full race bike, and still faster than ALL the rest of the riders. So what I'm saying is he can ride a slower bike to within that close to his full race bike, which means the bikes are the limiting factor with Peter.

@@hardergamer this makes me appreciate him more, that guy is an absolute maniac

​@@marclahathaaMichael Dunlop is better.

You make a very interesting point. How long until we see drone-bikes racing the course?

There are about 50 men who can ride like Hickman, but most choose not to ride the TT. Hickman has spent much time learning the track, other great riders may have his skill or even more, but Hickman dares to race the Isle. I doubt he's do that well on a MotoGp track. Just as Martin would not come close to Hickman on the Island.

balls of steel

IN 1966 Hailwood lap speed 107 mph, the Honda four max.80 bhp, i was there.

​@@marcellogenesi6390what? U watched that race before?

@@purwantiallan5089 Yes, I was at the Isla Of Man in 1966 hoping to see Trquinio Provini nicknamed Elbow, by The British fans, sadly he crashed in practice on the Benelli 250six at 140mph, he never recovered , and retired. Agostini on the MV3, while battling with Hailwood, suffered a break down, the chain came off the bike . My friend and I Positioned ourselves at the end of a long downhill, with a single house at the end by a sharp corner. In those days a rider had to push the bike to started, before getting on it.

@@marcellogenesi6390 That must have been an incredible experience, with the wildest sounding bikes too. The things I would do to sit there in the grass along some high-speed section in 1966...

You'd be hard pressed to find any mention of this in the national news. 😠

Probably best that more aren't into it cus when something gets popular over the top rules get slapped on it (look at drones!) Or it would just get banned all together

@@mark675I don’t think so. The IOM is an independent self-governing entity and the TT is a huge earner.

Why?

Should have the same label as f1 Monaco. Legal roads used to theatre closed

Yeah, you can probably hear them clang when he's walking. Those brass balls of his..

​@@madmax7622Great guy! Great balls! What not to like?

You know he is wearing a full on riding suit with airbags right?

@@Sm00thieKdeaths are a common occurrence at this race event. Only been one year with no fatalities in its 100+ years of operation.

@@Sm00thieK speed hasn't actually killed anybody, it's the sudden decelaration that does... if you think an airbag can save your life for hitting something at 300kph, good luck to you son.

My favourite bit of the circuit and it's on my way to work every day. Love the undulations and bends through the trees. I usually manage it at maybe 50 to 60 mph max and that feels fast. God knows how these guys do it at the speeds they do.

I kinda mastered the game, can see which parts u can actually push/go flat out if you have the balls... but totally different actually riding it too a game i guess! lol

I gave you like 100. Please tell me between what times that section is.

@@rcdenniz he comes out of Kirk Michael village at around 6:30 and arrives at Ballaugh at around 7:20. It’s a scary fast section but one where all of the top riders make up a lot of time!

Experience I believe is the main factor. Just my opinion

no fair, you get to have that feel on any b road at any time, these guys can get their kicks a couple times a year

,, that’s the good thing with riding smaller bikes,, your going balls out, the smile is on your face and your less likely to kill yourself on a off! ,, been there done that 😉✌,,

Now that’s funny

😂😂

as the ex owner of a MKVIII Competition Itom ..... I so agree ...... 2 teeth less on the back sprocket, nose on the speedo and bum in the air (and a following wind) would just, just reach 70 but boy ..... was it fun !!!

A car with enough down force and power would destroy this lap record. Bikes are not good at cornering

@@i3l4ckskillzz79 Yeah the Subaru Impreza did a 128mph average. That was only pushing 600hp and didnt have crazy down force like you see at pikes peak. Motorcycles can hit around 1.1G in a corner which is basically most sports cars without down force . I wouldn't say they are bad at cornering and if anything in the real world at license keeping speeds they may even be better. Basically a decent sports bike should be able to corner like a Honda civic type R. If anything its braking that really lets bikes down on track.

Watch Mark Higgins do the TT course in a world rally car in 2016 I was there and saw him do practice runs , the one on RU-vid is a practice run , unfortunately in the bike race before his run a rider was killed at Kepple Gate a traveling marshall going to the incident also crashed and was very badly injured the med evac helicopter had to come in and the police have to investigate the riders death so Mark Higgins do not get to do the planned final lap so they released the footage from the practice lap which is mental., Enjoy 👍

​@@i3l4ckskillzz79ahaha we are aware, he means in terms of danger and adrenaline.

​@@i3l4ckskillzz79yes but bike is able to drive in a straight line through snake like corners, cars will have to turn there

... and writing a symphony. Otherwise, exactly my thoughts.

@@chrismuz I can write you a symphony but I assure you it won't be a good one.

​@@residuevideoscacophony.

@@chrismuz modern classical music, easy-peasy. Just bang a couple of saucepans together for a while.

@@stevetaylor8698 True, but I was thinking more of Beethoven and the like. Lol.

I've been playing the game and after trying so many times you end up memorizing and knowing the turns but it is insane, i can barely do a lap going full mode without crashing, these guys go lap after lap without doing a mistake, and any slight mistake can be fatal, after playing the game on realistic i have even more respect for them, there are so many things that can kill you, and it is so easy to lose control of the bike and crash at 200km/h + speeds.

It's because for a rider, the TT is something that obsesses and possess you. It takes 3 years riding it to learn. You can sort of learn it watching the onboards. But not so you'd be safe to ride it.

​@@IOFIsicknessHis average speed was quicker than 200kmh which is about 124 mph. More like 200 mph which is about 322kmh

Thanks to dog owners for leashing your pets. Imagine pooching it at those speeds.

The lap record average speed in 2018 was 135.452mph. A difference of less than 1mph. Same rider, also a BMW. In 2016 it was 133.393mph and in 2015 it was 132.701mph. Maybe it is how this is filmed to bring across the speed differently?

John McGuiness on board is good from last year

@@my_dear_friend_ I don't think so, to get seconds on a lap means lot more speed actually, and one eye con feel it, it's pure physics.

Maybe average speed measuring make one think is less differences than it really is.

One mph faster over 37 miles is a huge difference in speed overall. I was wincing throughout that, just unbelievable

God Bless You Brother 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

You forgot to click your fingers.

@@FirstLast-ix7vh Cry harder you frightened pizzle.

@@FirstLast-ix7vh hell yeah 🤩🤩

I have the telemetry copy. Let me paste it here. "Fast AF!"

@@XtreeM_FaiL 🤣

Und allen anderen die die Eier haben solch ein Rennen zu fahren.👍🏻🥚🥚

You get addicted pretty quick 😅 I've only really focused on learning more about the TT in the last year, and I still watch in childish wonder and amazement at the sheer bravery and raw talent of all these riders. Peter Hickman and Micheal Dunlop are the two riders I'm just blown away by personally

Welcome to the world of TT mate. Soon enough, you'll catch the TT bug and you'll see the absolutely crazy things these riders do. Insane.

3AM and I’m up. Shit is insane 🔥

*road course….what makes this event stand out is this is that it’s on normal roads…so all the bumps, dips etc one gets on normal roads….as shown, this ain’t no smooth flat purpose built race track with marshals, run off areas etc etc etc… Not sure if you know this, but you can actually ride the course so if you do ride motorbikes, when you visit it’s worth riding around with the missus to really appreciate what these guys (and girls) do.

Rider, NOT driver, you silly sausage 🙄

@@ty.d.g.7550 Do you mean to say he is a silly German? 😀

So right! Amazing is a too weak word for this job.

They do 6 laps too, not just one; the whole race itself lasts for about an 1 hour & 40 minutes. You can imagine the degree of concentration & strength that takes. 😮

And to do one lap without error is incredible and to it up to six laps is just outrageous ability and focus

They are juat rich kids with toys 😂

I rarely use the word insane. . . . That is until spring of every year when I become a wannabe manx man for a week. OMG

EXACTLY!!!

Agreed. And a look at Hickman's face at the end. Was he still mellow, or was he totally manic?

He's going fast as fuck, boyeeee

May the spirits make you stop saying such cheesy shit

I salute that comment.

I reckon so - Absolutely amazing !

Get on a bike and youl see. They are the masters of the road.

Keep in mind that was his average speed....meaning that for a lot of these sections he is doing over 200mph.

@@Grooove_e El rocket ship

Maliens have been at this level for awhile on planet Manly. 10,000 years or so.

You are a squirrel! Now get back on your Marx Big Wheel and pedal the hell outta here!

The mind is incredible and adaptable. He probably sees the road at 150 mph as a mirror mortal sees the road at 80 mph.

I’d have to get up and ride it every morning for the whole year to remember it like they do. Only then could I max out top speed on a Grom or something 😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣

How much is "flat out"? On a good bike with good tyres(!) it is easily possible to ride at 250 km/h (or even more) on a German Autobahn for far more than 10 minutes.

@@marcos.1771 Flat out in my geared (down 1 tooth on the front cog and tuned with exhaust etc) S1000rr is 182 mph these racers are super humans. My point is that even on a straight road after only 10 min flat out a mere mortal struggles. These racers are super fit, super skilled and super brave.

Isn't there more😊

@@beauzo9965 Yes, another 5 laps.

I made it to 4 minutes - was getting dizzy and/or hypnotized.

"track"

i doubt its ever going more than 3rd gear..