Lets Talk Bike An Evening With TT Champions plus great free competitions plus cash prizes !

Top Speeds of 200mph. Average speeds of 130mph. Thirty-seven point seven miles of twisting town and country roads lined with houses, trees and dry-stone wall. The Isle Of Man Tourist Trophy is the most exciting, challenging and dangerous race in the world. For over a hundred years riders have travelled from all over the world to a small island in the Irish Sea to test themselves and their motorcycles against its unique challenge. But the greatest race is also the most deadly. Barry Sheene, Britain’s best-known bike racer, raced there once, in 1971 and never went back declaring it ‘too dangerous’. A total of 239 riders have died in competition on the mountain course.

‘Let’s Talk Bike’ is an exploration of the obsession that drives many thousands to make the pilgrimage to the Island every year. The evening is hosted by former BBC ‘Top Gear’ biker and talkSPORT radio host, Steve Berry and features interviews, analysis and chat with three men – Nick Jefferies, Stephen Davison and Ian Hutchinson - who offer an unrivalled knowledge, passion and insight into the TT races.

The closest anyone has yet come to reproducing the raw adrenalin-soaked excitement of riding the Island course was the 2011 hit movie ‘TT. Closer To The Edge’. Its undoubted star was a young rider from Sheffield, Ian Hutchinson. While the 3-D cameras rolled ‘Hutchy’ did something that had never been done before and will, in all likelihood, never be done again. The Yorkshireman won all five solo races. Imagine a Premiership team winning every game of the season or a F1 driver taking the top place on the podium at every race. What’s truly astonishing is that he did it in just one week. Five wins in seven days. Two in one day. Over a thousand miles of practice, qualifying and racing at phenomenal speeds on the most deadly circuit on the planet. Ironically it was an accident racing in the British Superbike Championship that same year - on the kind of specialist circuit considered much safer – that almost ended Hutchy’s career. He’s fought back from terrible injuries requiring more than twenty operations much quicker than the doctors predicted and returned to the TT in 2012. He’ll talk frankly about his rivalry with TT greats like John McGuinness and Guy Martin, unprecedented clean sweep in 2010 and battle to return and win again on the Island.

Nick Jefferies is TT dynasty. His father Alan finished on the podium not long after the war, his brother Tony was a winner in the seventies and his nephew David ‘DJ’ Jefferies was a multiple winner, lap record holder and a larger-than-life legend to those who love real roads racing. Nick has raced for Honda, Yamaha and is one of the few men to have lapped the Island course on the giant-killing bike from New Zealand, The Britten. Nick first competed on the Island in 1976 and this year, nearly four decades later, he’s planning a comeback.

Belfast-based Stephen Davison is a top photojournalist documenting life in his native Northern Ireland but his passion is real roads motorcycle racing. Motorcycle News call him ‘the world’s No. 1 Pure Real Roads Racing photographer’ Stephen’s work his brought him into close contact with TT greats at times of great triumph and tragedy. He’ll be showcasing some remarkable images and talking about time spent with legends like Robert Dunlop. Phillip Mc Callen and ‘Yer Maun’ -the greatest of them all, 26-time winner, Joey Dunlop.

Let’s Talk Bike is a unmissable evening’s entertainment for fans of real roads racing and the most spectacular, exciting and deadliest race of them all – the Isle of Man TT.



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