| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 134269 | 2013-06-15 22:49:00 | You don't have to be nut, but it helps! | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1345952 | 2013-06-15 22:49:00 | Here (vimeo.com) Wheelstands at 160MPH +, clipping back wheels at a similar speed, tight corners, narrow roads stone walls.... Nuts, I tell you! Awesome to watch though... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1345953 | 2013-06-15 23:50:00 | Just a little bit faster than in the old days of the 500cc Manx Norton :) | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1345954 | 2013-06-16 00:16:00 | No wonder their cats don't have tails. Awesome stuff. |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1345955 | 2013-06-16 00:19:00 | Fantastic. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1345956 | 2013-06-16 04:56:00 | At least one of those nuts is a Kiwi nut - Bruce Anstey, wearing a black helmet with a fluorescent Kiwi on the front. Shown winning one of the Isle of Man races with a gaggle of other nuts in his slipstream. I think he only races on the Isle of Man and in Ireland. Even having taken a few years out he came back and won. I like the "Slow" sign on the road as they came up to a bend at a million miles an hour... Did any of you recognise one of the racers - Guy Martin - as the Northern chappy who is often seen on British TV programmes doing a sort of young man's Fred Dibney - the series that was on recently was about him and a mate re-building a canal boat. Skinny face, lambchop whiskers - he was one of the few in johcar's film who was seen with his helmet off. Guy Martin is about the biggest nut of the lot. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1345957 | 2013-06-16 04:59:00 | Just a little bit faster than in the old days of the 500cc Manx Norton :) Dad's first bike was a 500cc Manx Norton - single with belt drive, he told me. Tricky to kick start apparently - he reckons it belted him over the handle bars when it decided it wanted to go the other way. Belt drive was dreadful in wet conditions, like going through fords in the old days in North Canterbury... |
John H (8) | ||
| 1345958 | 2013-06-16 05:36:00 | The Manx Norton could reach 150mph down Brays Hill, and could achieve almost 100mph average lap speeds by the aces of the day. The Manx was outclassed by the Italian multis like the MV Augusta and the Gilera. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1345959 | 2013-06-16 05:55:00 | MV Agusta... Sorry to be pedantic, but I too thought it was Augusta for years... | John H (8) | ||
| 1345960 | 2013-06-16 06:33:00 | The Manx Norton could reach 150mph down Brays Hill, and could achieve almost 100mph average lap speeds by the aces of the day. The Manx was outclassed by the Italian multis like the MV Augusta and the Gilera. .......and the great Giacomo Agostini!! I think the Manx was a bit earlier wasn't it? And a bit primitive compared with the Agusta and Gilera machines. |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1345961 | 2013-06-16 06:49:00 | At least one of those nuts is a Kiwi nut - Bruce Anstey, wearing a black helmet with a fluorescent Kiwi on the front. Shown winning one of the Isle of Man races with a gaggle of other nuts in his slipstream. I think he only races on the Isle of Man and in Ireland. Even having taken a few years out he came back and won. I like the "Slow" sign on the road as they came up to a bend at a million miles an hour... Did any of you recognise one of the racers - Guy Martin - as the Northern chappy who is often seen on British TV programmes doing a sort of young man's Fred Dibney - the series that was on recently was about him and a mate re-building a canal boat. Skinny face, lambchop whiskers - he was one of the few in johcar's film who was seen with his helmet off. Guy Martin is about the biggest nut of the lot.went and saw closer to the edge a couple of years ago with him in it |
plod (107) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||