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You'd want to go to Bonneville, or somewhere with long, straight flat roads - maybe australia....
Or some stupid liability/insurance thing as it's below high water ?
Russell96 - Member
I agree, thrown off a superbike on your leathers is gonna be quite a different experience to being clipped in on road pedals, on the racing you see them throw/guide themselves in a different direction to the motorbike, that isn't going to happen when you are clipped in.
GM crashed into a wall at 165mph while still on the bike at the IOMTT as per the picture earlier. Are you really suggesting that is 'safer' ???
Plenty of flat and (relatively - the beach appeared to curve slightly?) straight roads around here they could have closed. The A47 between Wisbech and Kings Lynn springs to mind straight away. A14 between Huntingdon and Cambridge also, but that might be tough to close.
I wasn't thinking of a TT, more a race track with slide off areas after all he wasn't doing the attempt in a 12ft wide lane it was on a wide open beach.
Spat off any bike unclipped is different to being thrown off one clipped in, magnify that by the speed, the time to getting out of the way is going to be reduced by a massive amount. Remaining clipped in to a bike at 100+ whilst it's bouncing all over the beach is going to be worse then thrown off on your own.
Great show with a great character - he's like a modern day Fred Dibnah (with bigger balls!)
Also great to see Hope & Orange get some air time
Quality show and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series