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    Thread: Geoff Duke’s last lap of the TT course
Post: RE: Geoff Duke’s last lap of the TT course

RIP.  Condolences to family and friends.  Never had the honor of meeting the man but everything I've ever seen in print or on film you could just tell he was the consummate professional and gentleman ...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 11 16,686 11-05-2015, 07:17 PM
    Thread: Forum meeting?
Post: RE: Forum meeting?

A very well done to you and your lads (and lasses) Silja!
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 47 85,183 11-05-2015, 07:09 PM
    Thread: Formula E vs TT Zero vs TT World Series
Post: RE: Formula E vs TT Zero vs TT World Series

113 or 115 mph average speed per lap on the TT Mountain Course is moving right along as far as I'm concerned and anyone that can lap at that speed has all my respect, no matter what they're riding!  E...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 45 94,521 31-03-2015, 12:28 AM
    Thread: How many corners on the course.
Post: RE: How many corners on the course.

It would seem to me that the fairly arbitrary definitions of a turn/curve/bend/kink are such that it would be impossible to ever actually establish a "number per lap".  And, I'm assuming the original ...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 18 35,408 30-03-2015, 11:38 PM
    Thread: Improvements will soon be complete on TT Grandstand
Post: RE: Improvements will soon be complete on TT Grand...

I've been absent for a little while. Are there any updates, especially containing pictures, related to the proposed modernization of the scoreboard etc. across the course from the grandstands?
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 2 5,494 05-02-2015, 12:17 AM
    Thread: Sunday Racing Planned for Pre TT Classic Road Races
Post: RE: Sunday Racing Planned for Pre TT Classic Road ...

And 2017 (wink, wink) :)
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 3 6,085 04-02-2015, 11:34 PM
    Thread: TT Boycott
Post: RE: TT Boycott

(15-12-2014, 10:13 PM)Amsterdam Wrote: (15-12-2014, 08:29 PM)ooobaby Wrote: (15-12-2014, 11:37 AM)Amsterdam Wrote: Poetic qualities Will: "the average hedge anorak"  quite like that! Had to look...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 16 30,930 16-12-2014, 02:26 AM
    Thread: TT Boycott
Post: RE: TT Boycott

(15-12-2014, 11:37 AM)Amsterdam Wrote: Poetic qualities Will: "the average hedge anorak"  quite like that! Had to look that one up on-line as it wasn't in my dictionary.  A British slang term.  Inte...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 16 30,930 15-12-2014, 08:29 PM
    Thread: Any bike any rider at the TT?.
Post: RE: Any bike any rider at the TT?.

JM130 flat out on the rotary Norton on the mountain!
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 36 351,797 12-12-2014, 11:59 PM
    Thread: IOMTT Forum Closure
Post: RE: IOMTT Forum Closure

Does anyone know if JM130 made it over to this forum?  It would be nice to be privy to his occasional bits of wisdom!
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 244 491,483 12-12-2014, 11:54 PM
    Thread: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viable, says minister
Post: RE: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viabl...

Maybe I'm just uninformed but I wasn't aware that the TT was saturated regarding lodging.  Very busy yes, but saturated no.  Especially if you're willing to camp.  When we've been there some of the ca...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 64 110,014 12-12-2014, 11:46 PM
    Thread: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viable, says minister
Post: RE: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viabl...

I just can't see it happening either.  Wish I was wrong!  I think there would be a market for it albeit not near the crowds for NASCAR. (Never could see the attraction for "roundy round" racing myself...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 64 110,014 10-12-2014, 08:34 PM
    Thread: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viable, says minister
Post: RE: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viabl...

It would be shortsighted in my opinion to leave Australia, New Zealand, the USA and maybe even Canada out of the picture.  Especially in the long term.  There's just too big of a market there.  Now if...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 64 110,014 10-12-2014, 12:21 AM
    Thread: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viable, says minister
Post: RE: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viabl...

When we come over for the TT we're there for 18 days and I figure we EACH spend around 1400-1700 pounds while on the Island (I tend to buy more souvenirs like signed commemorative helmets and books). ...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 64 110,014 08-12-2014, 07:51 PM
    Thread: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viable, says minister
Post: RE: Isle of Man TT world series plan remains viabl...

I hope/wish I'm wrong, but I can't see this being practical or financially viable in many locations other than the IOM.  If it did come to pass it could have events run in the USA the prior summer/fal...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 64 110,014 04-12-2014, 06:14 PM
    Thread: Quo drummer set to rock Isle of Man bike festival
Post: RE: Quo drummer set to rock Isle of Man bike festi...

Wow!   I'm really dating myself here, but I still have a copy of Pictures Of Matchstick Men on a 45RPM record and I can hear the opening riff like it was yesterday.
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 10 14,731 04-12-2014, 05:27 PM
    Thread: foreign tt equivalent?
Post: RE: foreign tt equivalent?

It's all kinds of vehicles not just bikes, but there are I believe two events each year on the Bonneville salt flats in Utah vying for land speed records in multiple classes of vehicles that last for ...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 11 15,713 01-12-2014, 03:47 AM
    Thread: IOMTT Forum Closure
Post: RE: IOMTT Forum Closure

I just noticed that for some of us there's a space under our Avatars that says "Warning Level" with a % sign after it.  Did news of our prior nefarious exploits come with us to the new site or somethi...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 244 491,483 26-11-2014, 08:16 PM
    Thread: IOMTT Forum Closure
Post: RE: IOMTT Forum Closure

Amsterdam: Thanks for that!!!! It worked swimmingly once I figured how to get into my personal info on the old site. Without your help this technological dinosaur would never have figured out how t...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 244 491,483 25-11-2014, 08:35 PM
    Thread: IOMTT Forum Closure
Post: RE: IOMTT Forum Closure

(22-11-2014, 10:50 PM)Amsterdam Wrote: (22-11-2014, 10:45 PM)Redog Wrote: Glad you made it over Amstel. Now if we can just get Eddy to figure out his Avatar. . . . . . . . . Thanks, always nice to...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 244 491,483 25-11-2014, 08:29 PM
    Thread: new over here
Post: RE: new over here

Greetings from another orphan seeking shelter from the vagaries of prior abandonment.  I have to say I didn't see that one coming and I'm still somewhat in shock!  Thank you Malcolm for providing us w...
ooobaby TT Related Posts (Only) 78 244,971 24-11-2014, 10:14 PM