IOM TT Viewing suggestions

[deangsadv]

I hope you like getting up early, as most of the places mentioned will be full by 7am if not earlier, I’ve no suggestions as I want to be able to watch it myself. Sorry!

 

[ymfb]

Braddan church, great cake, sandwiches and clean toilets

 

[Dirty Ming]

Do the practice sessions go on all day? I thought it was just the evenings but I may be wrong. If there are early sessions that works for me, as I'm up at 5am for work normally

 

[theoneandonly]

no , roads are closed when practice is on , but they have to think of the locals.

 

[Snaf]

Do the practice sessions go on all day? I thought it was just the evenings but I may be wrong. If there are early sessions that works for me, as I'm up at 5am for work normally

Just late pm evening Tues/Wed/Thurs of the first week, are you taking your own car or flying in. Speak next week with plans.
TT schedule

 

[EKIMYRF]

Braddan church, great cake, sandwiches and clean toilets

That is a great location and facilities but never found the viewing that exciting

 

[snelly]

My wife and I are going to the Isle of Man next Friday for a week taking in some of the practice sessions. The first few days we're hoping to see a bit more of the island before it all kicks off.
We'll be based in Castletown in the south, and would like some advice as to where to go to see the riders up close at speed to get the full experience. I have a disability that limits the time I can stand and I can't walk far, so would need to be able to park as close as possible. Cheers

You can get all the way round the Isle of man apart from the section of kirk Michael and the pennyrig camp site just the otherside of kirk Michael; a good map of the Island is your friend for the little back roads.the best way of finding places is when the roads are open just ride along some of the small rds leading off the circuit to find where they actually go and start piecing it together; it's all part of a great 2 wk holliday for me and has been for years going back to 1978; enjoy;

 

[EKIMYRF]

You can get all the way round the Isle of man apart from the section of kirk Michael and the pennyrig camp site just the otherside of kirk Michael; a good map of the Island is your friend for the little back roads.the best way of finding places is when the roads are open just ride along some of the small rds leading off the circuit to find where they actually go and start piecing it together; it's all part of a great 2 wk holliday for me and has been for years going back to 1978; enjoy;

Were you there for the Hailwood win ? - I was on the wall at the Ballacraine Hotel (was still a pub then)

 

[snelly]

Were you there for the Hailwood win ? - I was on the wall at the Ballacraine Hotel (was still a pub then)

Were you there for the Hailwood win ? - I was on the wall at the Ballacraine Hotel (was still a pub then)

Yes i was; i was at quarter Bridge; i was on foot that year because i'd wrote the bike off the month before . A mate lent me his A7 beesa but i snapped the crank on that trying it out the wk before we sailed; ; i was stopping in Dugelarse that year so walked up to the Quarter to take in the racing; bloody epic it was; what a noise when he came round; the followng year in 79 it was back for our honeymoon afterwe decided to squeeze a wedding in before we went;

 

[snelly]

Yes i was; i was at quarter Bridge; i was on foot that year because i'd wrote the bike off the month before . A mate lent me his A7 beesa but i snapped the crank on that trying it out the wk before we sailed; ; i was stopping in Dugelarse that year so walked up to the Quarter to take in the racing; bloody epic it was; what a noise when he came round; the followng year in 79 it was back for our honeymoon after we decided to squeeze a wedding in before we went;

 

[Dirty Ming]

Thanks for all the suggestions. OS map 95 incoming. We're driving over and hope to see the island Sat and Sun before it kicks off on Bank Holiday Monday, when the roads are closed pretty much all day.