Lars1974
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Hi all,
this year I had the chance again to visit the Isle of Man and watch some of the TT Races - here is a short report:
together with three of my colleagues we did leaving our office on Friday just after lunch to head to Liverpool - the tools for this trip were: 3x Repsol Blades and 1x Crosstourer
after a little de-tour through Chester (why?) we made the ferry just in time and headed for Douglas - nice calm evening
Saturday saw us watching the racing at Milntown corner - always a great spot - here are some of the shots i took
after the Superbike race we headed on the very bumpy back roads to get to Ballaugh bridge to get some of the sidecar action...
after that we went to the grandstand just in time to get a look of the electric bikes being checked by the engineers...here is the Mugen Honda
The King of the Mountain John McGuiness won his 18th Race in style and we were celebrating with him....very long night and sore heads the next morning
Sunday started with a late breakfast at midday! followed by watching some of the MotoGP before finally at 3pm we were ready to hit the bikes and explore the island a bit. Jay had not been over so we showed him round the sight....sout, north, Peel and of course back over the mountain course on Mad Sunday - Blades feel very fast up there....
btw: Crosstourer is very nice...i you have not ridden one -try!!! V4 power at its best - IMHO
Monday we got up early and did a lap of the course again.... nice sunshine up on the mountain saw us stopping at posing again for pics
than we head back to Douglas and the delayed schedule meant we could go and spend time in the pits...
finally the old bill caught the right guy - lol
We watched the Supersport race down Bray Hill (Brian - Thanks again for your kind hospitality)...what a great place to watch and famous people are there too....
racing does not get much closer than this...
at Hillberry corner Luis was finally defeated and just fell asleep...so Jay claimed a well earned victory
the Superstock race we watched around the 9th milestone...a great viewing point as well.... and Luis given 100% as always...
sadly Tuesday morning came too fast and we had to get back...the last pic - "Luis - the friends behind us are getting too close - lets get out of here!!!"
anyway, i just thought i share these with you...there are more pics on this album link here:
http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/dd21/LarsG1974/Facebook/TT 2012 Isle of Man with Alex Jay Luis/
same again next year...???
thanks
Lars
this year I had the chance again to visit the Isle of Man and watch some of the TT Races - here is a short report:
together with three of my colleagues we did leaving our office on Friday just after lunch to head to Liverpool - the tools for this trip were: 3x Repsol Blades and 1x Crosstourer
after a little de-tour through Chester (why?) we made the ferry just in time and headed for Douglas - nice calm evening
Saturday saw us watching the racing at Milntown corner - always a great spot - here are some of the shots i took
after the Superbike race we headed on the very bumpy back roads to get to Ballaugh bridge to get some of the sidecar action...
after that we went to the grandstand just in time to get a look of the electric bikes being checked by the engineers...here is the Mugen Honda
The King of the Mountain John McGuiness won his 18th Race in style and we were celebrating with him....very long night and sore heads the next morning
Sunday started with a late breakfast at midday! followed by watching some of the MotoGP before finally at 3pm we were ready to hit the bikes and explore the island a bit. Jay had not been over so we showed him round the sight....sout, north, Peel and of course back over the mountain course on Mad Sunday - Blades feel very fast up there....
btw: Crosstourer is very nice...i you have not ridden one -try!!! V4 power at its best - IMHO
Monday we got up early and did a lap of the course again.... nice sunshine up on the mountain saw us stopping at posing again for pics
than we head back to Douglas and the delayed schedule meant we could go and spend time in the pits...
finally the old bill caught the right guy - lol
We watched the Supersport race down Bray Hill (Brian - Thanks again for your kind hospitality)...what a great place to watch and famous people are there too....
racing does not get much closer than this...
at Hillberry corner Luis was finally defeated and just fell asleep...so Jay claimed a well earned victory
the Superstock race we watched around the 9th milestone...a great viewing point as well.... and Luis given 100% as always...
sadly Tuesday morning came too fast and we had to get back...the last pic - "Luis - the friends behind us are getting too close - lets get out of here!!!"
anyway, i just thought i share these with you...there are more pics on this album link here:
http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/dd21/LarsG1974/Facebook/TT 2012 Isle of Man with Alex Jay Luis/
same again next year...???
thanks
Lars
