Real road racing
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i have just watched some of your ''silver state racing''
oh dear. no bends, nothing exciting going on there then.
watch real racing
John McGuinness in Practice 01-06-10 - The official Isle of Man TT website
oh dear. no bends, nothing exciting going on there then.
watch real racing
John McGuinness in Practice 01-06-10 - The official Isle of Man TT website
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Oh, I understand now.
We don't exactly have that here. This country is WAAAYYY too big, at least in the west, to have the kinds of roads you're talking about. Plus, lots of the cities are laid out in nice, square grids, so there aren't so many 'fun' public roads to race on.
More to the point, perhaps, is that the public transportation system here IS the road system. So, people get super-cranky when you close the roads.
I think it's cool that you have the chance to race on the public roads there, and I'd love to come visit some day and take in a road race or two!
EDIT: I take it back. The REAL reason we don't have more road racing is that too few here want it badly enough.
We don't exactly have that here. This country is WAAAYYY too big, at least in the west, to have the kinds of roads you're talking about. Plus, lots of the cities are laid out in nice, square grids, so there aren't so many 'fun' public roads to race on.
More to the point, perhaps, is that the public transportation system here IS the road system. So, people get super-cranky when you close the roads.
I think it's cool that you have the chance to race on the public roads there, and I'd love to come visit some day and take in a road race or two!
EDIT: I take it back. The REAL reason we don't have more road racing is that too few here want it badly enough.
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hey your more than welcome, we are quite an accommodating bunch us brits (dont believe all you have seen on the news reciently lol)
roadracing is organic, its alive, not sterile like gp etc.
ps, not taking anything away from those guys by the way, rossi, simmo and co are still the fastest, but all have backed away and said ''not likely'' to the roads.
bit if a bad one this but watch milky's crash on the island a few years ago, ouchhhhh
not for the feint hearted (160mph into a drywall)
Milky Quayles explosive Isle of Man TT crash - Bikerpunks.com
roadracing is organic, its alive, not sterile like gp etc.
ps, not taking anything away from those guys by the way, rossi, simmo and co are still the fastest, but all have backed away and said ''not likely'' to the roads.
bit if a bad one this but watch milky's crash on the island a few years ago, ouchhhhh
not for the feint hearted (160mph into a drywall)
Milky Quayles explosive Isle of Man TT crash - Bikerpunks.com
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The US is a very litigious society, and I would be very surprised if any municipality would invite racing on its public roads unless a sponsor came in and fully indemnified the municipality. Participant and spectataor deaths are not uncommon at Isle of Man. If something like that happened in the US, it would surely be followed by lawsuits that could easily bankrupt the town.
In this country you have a hard time finding a public pool with a diving board or a playground with a seesaw, which should give you a sense of how fearful towns are of being sued if someone gets hurt on their property.
In this country you have a hard time finding a public pool with a diving board or a playground with a seesaw, which should give you a sense of how fearful towns are of being sued if someone gets hurt on their property.
The US is a very litigious society, and I would be very surprised if any municipality would invite racing on its public roads unless a sponsor came in and fully indemnified the municipality. Participant and spectataor deaths are not uncommon at Isle of Man. If something like that happened in the US, it would surely be followed by lawsuits that could easily bankrupt the town.
In this country you have a hard time finding a public pool with a diving board or a playground with a seesaw, which should give you a sense of how fearful towns are of being sued if someone gets hurt on their property.
In this country you have a hard time finding a public pool with a diving board or a playground with a seesaw, which should give you a sense of how fearful towns are of being sued if someone gets hurt on their property.