We’re off to the TT again this year! Just booked the ferry

WOO, and indeed, HOO!!!!

Had a provisional booking last year but didn’t have a bike to go on. Now we do, so we are.

I will be impossibly happy until June, minimum!

😀

Nice one. I’d love to go and watch it. I just had an email from Silverstone about this year’s MotoGP. Not sure that I want to risk hypothermia again though.

The TT is great, its over 20 years since I went, would love to go again, fantastic atmosphere, one of the funnest weekends of my life.

I booked the Ferry on Monday!

I had a chance to go this year, but Mrs Gixer is due to give birth on the 4th June to our first wee one, so that scupperd the trip. Could have been a good one, free accomadation inc drink and food from a director of a big UK construction company 🙄

Was looking forward to giving the K1300s a good run out.

Bad luck John. If only you’d taken cold showers instead for a month or two….. 😉

Enjoy. The last time we went was Joey’s last win…

Only place other than Germany where you can ride flat-out, on a superbike, legally 🙂

Only 133 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes to go 😀

how easy is it to secure B&B accomodation this year ?

After a bit of a decline in numbers, it picked up again last year.

I think the coverage on ITV4 and also the TT3D film has worked wonders.

I spoke to a lot of vistors last year who had come over to see the TT after seeing the ITV4 coverage.

I looked for a price for a flight the other day flybe from Birmingham – £405!!!! 🙂

the_lecht_rocks – Member
how easy is it to secure B&B accomodation this year ?

I was asking around a few months ago for a friend who wanted to come over for TT and it’s not easy.

It’s easy to get on a campsite, but a lot of B&B’s will be booked up.

Homestay may be the way forward for anyone looking for digs.

This is the official website for trips and digs

we go in sept for the classic trial and watch the road races the week before.. did the international rally the same year Vatenan did it in a black escort.. ( he drank milk in the bar!)

Took my SV over a few years back (week before the TT races) and rode the circuit, lovely island. On my ‘TT run’ stuck within the speed limits in town, thick fog on two thirds of the mountain and only got to three figures on the way back down but it took me 55minutes! Was nice as some of the circuit was kitted out with bales/flags etc, TT racer feel 🙂

It’s better to come for both pratice and race week.

Spend practice week getting some nice ‘in you own time,’ rides in around the course, then spend race week parking your bike up and just watch the racing.

Race week is a bit of a nightmare for trying to enjoy riding the course. All the sunny day riders will be out from 5am with a complete disregard for the rest of the general riding / driving population and the mountain road will also be closed between Ramsey and The Creg numerous times due to collisions during race week.

Do some mountain biking over there – flippin’ awesome

Spent 8 days over Xmas climbing some mega hills and scaring myself senseless on the descents!!!

Post the dates then…

And btw it’s a flipping amazing 37 miles on a road bike (pedal type) you really respect the racers when you see some of the normal road bits in their way at 180mph. Not to mention the scenery, or the Hairpins, or the descents…

We’ll be camping, hopefully at the Laxey Football Club where we camped last time.

Going out on the Thursday (31st???) and returning on Saturday

🙂

Does the Steam Racket Company still do that shit of syphoning your tank on the pretext of “safety”?

Been a few times to the island and never heard of tank syphoning. +1 to go week before. Signs and bales are out but its fairly quiet. They just need to sort the weather.

Does the Steam Racket Company still do that shit of syphoning your tank on the pretext of “safety”?

We first went 10-11 years ago and they’d stopped it then……
There’s lots of bikes where it would be impossible anyway, these days.

They just need to sort the weather.

We’ve had sunburnt faces sitting in the grounds of the old people’s home at the start of the Glencrutchery Road before…. 🙂

But it’s an island in the middle of the Irish Sea. You live with it 🙂

Got to put this on my bucket list! Watched TT 3D last night, absolutely fantastic film.

PP – I’ll be going this year (& yes the Guzzi is fixed despite the parts never arriving!) first time for me – celebrating a mates 40th in style 🙂 camping too but not sure where as left it all to him to arrange, excited x 100. Anyone know if/where you can hire mountain bikes over there? as I will be enjoying the ride there & back but keeping the bike strictly locked up during race week – too many nutters around to make a lap enjoyable 🙁

One Mad Sunday the weather was that bad that we just sat in the pub in Douglas and watched WSB from Monza…

too many nutters around to make a lap enjoyable

Naa…. Just go for a blast over the mountain after about 8pm, the nutters are generally in the pub by then.

It’s a great place and I’ll be going again this year (camping in Kirk Michael -it’s quite civilised!).

Glen Wyllin campsite at Kirk Michael is a great place to stay.

It’s a nice chilled out site with a beach, a pub, a post office and general stores shop all within just a few minutes walk.

It’s also handy that you can still get out to visit the rest of the Island when the roads are closed using the coast road to Peel.

Not been since 1992 – I got sunstroke!

Watching Hizzy and Foggy battle it out from the Gooseneck is one of my happiest memories.

Silly laps on my mates Kwak 750 Turbo, great nights out trying to pull glacial, unobtainable German birds and crashing the LC on the way back from the Ramsey Sprint.

Happy days.

Rusty spanner – I was at the Gooseneck for the 92 senior and got sunburnt too. Blame my old man (as in my dad, not my cock) as I was only 9 at the time!

Seriously though folks, bring your bikes. So much riding and everywhere is pretty much fair game…great way to get to remote spots for racing and practising too. Massive MTB scene here at the minute, club winter series had 175 entries in December. There’ll be loads of people able to take you out riding, just post on manxmtb.com and someone will shout you up. Not me though…Police resources stretched to the limit for the fortnight!

Happy riding

Rob

Rob, have you seen the Duke ‘White Charger’ DVD? You should be able to see yourself.
I’m the slightly confused looking bloke dressed in black with a floppy cricket hat on.

Love the IOM police – the most patient people going. Stopping people who steal the horse drawn trams must cease to be amusing after a while, but you’d never know it.

Told the wife I’ll be going for my 40th (couple of years yet!) – she’s not let me go yet. She used to work with DJ in jeffries’s dealership, TBH she won’t even watch it on tv!
Hoping Hutchy will keep his bike upright till I get there – Bingley Legend!

talltom: used to work as a saturday lad cleaning bikes in AJs but that was when Tony and Nick ran it. Dave just used to mess about on what ever he could get his hands on. Happy dayzz

he he. I’ve had some crazy times in IOM in that week. Caning along into a corner, bike absolutely flat out at around 120+. German guy passes me sat up like he’s out for a Sunday stroll.

Sleeping in the ferry port, visiting my mate in the police cell because the dogs sniffed out his stash, spending an evening drinking in this old guys house when he asked us if we had somewhere to stay for the night, lugging a bag of whisky around the island…and then lugging it back home. MASSIVE fight in the car park in Lancaster on time.

Ferry crossing like a roller coaster and many more.

Enjoy. 😉

Had a ticket for the ferry but had to cancel and let it go as I needed a new engine just before Christmas so it went on never never lol on the plus side the bike runs great now and I can go the year after 🙂

Enjoy fella

too many nutters around to make a lap enjoyable

They don’t have ‘Mad Sunday’ as such any more. They just make the whole of the Mountain section one way for a week or so, cuts down on congestion, makes it more enjoyable and safer.

Sturmey,

Aye sounds about right, Helen – the wife – used to do saturdays in the clothing bit upstairs. Her dad used to pick her up on his bike. Helen riding pillion in a miniskirt!!