Isle of Man Hill Rally 2026 Crash & Action! Check out the wipe out at 2:50

nice clips from the Isle of Man TT

Hollywood is going to make a movie and docuseries about the Isle of Man TT race, the world’s oldest continuously running motorsport event

 Amazon MGM Studios has landed a film and docuseries package on the legendary Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Race with Channing Tatum attached to star in the film about the motorcycle races

The corresponding docuseries was filmed during last year’s TT races with never-before-seen access to the riders and the races due to an exclusive partnership between the producers and the event promoters.

https://deadline.com/2025/06/brad-pitt-channing-tatum-amazon-mgm-studios-isle-of-man-1236424027/

the Razorback Racing team have a hell of a cool looking sidecar! Raced at the Isle of Man TT I think is where I found this photo

 https://www.facebook.com/razorbackracing570

https://www.smallmotorservice.com/racing

XS650 powered, just set a new lap record breaking the 1972 record speed, at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park

Eggy's crash in 2022 at the Isle of Man Southern 100, just two corners from finishing, and winning.

photo from https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2024/12/motorbike-shrapnel.html

and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=553113897696242&set=gm.1461229111930580&idorvanity=1211797250207102

full story at https://www.pressreader.com/uk/derby-telegraph/20240415/281663965048220

and https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/derbyshire-biker-who-survived-100mph-9221196

wow... it's been a long time since I've watched a lap of the Isle of Man TT. Skip the first 90 seconds, he doesn't accelerate for a couple seconds after that. Thank you Steve!

On-board at the 2023 Isle of Man TT Races from a point of view you've never seen before!

What a great view, a beautiful place, and a terrific camera. I reccomend at least 1440p resolution

Once Charles Rolls discovered flying, he ditched his love for cars saying that up in the air there is no police to curb your joy.

Even before the famous meeting in 1904, the name Charles Stewart Rolls would have been known to Henry Royce thanks to his exploits at the wheel and reputation as a skilled motor racer. He held the unofficial land speed record in 1903 piloting his 80hp Mors to nearly 83 mph along the course in the Duke of Portland's Clipstone Park.

In his first race in France in 1899 – the Paris to Boulogne – Rolls had finished fourth in the tourist class, driving an 8hp Panhard and Levassor. In 1903 he competed in the fateful Paris to Madrid town-to-town, an event in which thirty-four drivers and spectators were to perish.

Rolls was a pioneer aviator and initially, balloonist, making over 170 balloon ascents. In 1903 he won the Gordon Bennett Gold Medal for the longest single flight time.

Following the formation of Rolls-Royce, Rolls turned his attention to the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. After frustration in 1905, Rolls returned in 1906 winning in a Rolls-Royce Light Twenty.

By 1907 Rolls' interest turned increasingly to flying and he tried to persuade Royce to design an aero engine. He became the second Briton to go up in an airplane, and it was piloted by Wilbur Wright!

Their flight on lasted four minutes and twenty seconds.

He bought one of six Wright Flyer aircraft built by Short Brothers under license from the Wright Brothers and from early October 1909 made more than 200 flights. 

by 1909 Rolls' interest in the car business he made with Royce in 1904 was waning, and at the end of the year he resigned as Technical managing director and became a non-executive director.

He co-founded the ballooning club that became the Royal Aero Club in 1901, and in March 1910 he was the second person they licensed to fly an aeroplane. 

He became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane in June 1910. In July, he died in a plane crash, age 32

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rolls

https://www.facebook.com/dwrenched.george/posts/pfbid02d5VDpQKLA8JNYhMf6Rpr4rsfbifqebkMt8b36RM6TPQdEo4HTU8BSXrCkN4TkZi5l

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/charles-rolls-once-crossed-the-english-channel-from-uk-to-france-and-back-144335.html#agal_3

https://myautoworld.com/rolls-royce/cars/history/history-company/history-charles-rolls/history-charles-rolls.html

a contrast and comparison of facial appearances... one is determined and looking to the future. The other is curious about gravity

that's my take on it anyway

https://claspgarage.tumblr.com/

if you enjoyed the goofball antics of the Top Gear show, you'll probably enjoy this too (thanks Marc B!)

coffee and donuts video, Senior TT race, 2019

motorcycles, zinging in the rain

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/

Tony found it this is the the Armoy (The Dunlop family's home village) road races in Northern Ireland





 https://amrrc.com   Thanks Tony!

The Isle of Man TT has officially become the world's fastest road race following Peter Hickman's outright lap record of 135.452mph in the Senior TT.

The Smiths BMW rider attributed his record lap to "perfect" weather and track conditions across practice and race week, as well as a last-minute new tyre delivery from Dunlop for the Senior event.

"They pulled something out the bag, got the factory working overtime overnight, and managed to pull in a new tyre for this race here, and I think that's also what's made a little bit of a difference in the Senior [race]."

All of race week's solo lap records bar Harrison's SBK were set using Dunlop tyres, with Harrison running Metzeler rubber on his machinery. The Birchalls dominated the Sidecar class on Avon tyres.

https://www.motorsport.com/roadracing/news/isle-of-man-tt-becomes-fastest-road-race-1045304

No Limits, George Formby, 1935 (Thanks Tony!)

And relevant to the Joey Dunlop statue I posted a couple days ago, there is a statue of George Formby leaning on a lamppost on Ridgeway Street, close to the intersection with Lord Street, in Douglas, Isle of Man. 

He was a movie star, TT racer, and ukelele player

The Wigan-born ukulele legend, who died in 1961, was one of the country's best-paid stars during his heyday in the 1930s and 1940s.

And he was so famous, as was his motorcycle, the Shuttleworth Snap, that a gentleman from England acts like him at Goodwood

now I finally understand what that checkered motorcycle is about

Graeme Hardy, originally from Melbourne in Derbyshire, (not Wigan), he originally saw the film in the Gaiety Theatre, in Douglas when he was at the TT races many years ago. A biker himself Graeme has raced bikes like Yamaha TZ350, Suzuki 1000 and Honda 900’s at both club and national levels, he has also worked as a mechanic for Neil Haslam when racing in the TT and Southern 100.

Graeme had a couple of model T Fords,was involved in filming and had previously traveled the world with a Laurel & Hardy tribute.The idea for resurrecting the Shuttleworth Snap came up in conversation with Lord March at Goodwood back in 2006.

http://mike-thistledown.blogspot.dk/2013/03/lamppost.html
http://www.johnsmotorcyclenews.co.uk/news-interest/shuttleworth-snap/
https://rideapart.com/articles/limit-1935-moto-movie-review

the Joey Dunlop memorial, the only statue I think I've ever seen of a bike racer

Respect.

http://mike-thistledown.blogspot.dk/2014/06/over-sea-to-ireland.html
http://mike-thistledown.blogspot.dk/2013/06/dunlop-memorial-gardens.html

A fly on the wall at a post-race debrief with TT legends Guy Martin, Cameron Donald, John McGuinness, Bruce Anstey and the Dunlop brothers

Honda manned up, and quietly mentioned that it was the bikes fault why McGuiness crashed at the 2017 TT

Honda did eventually confirm that John himself had quickly fed back to the team that the throttle had either stuck or opened unexpectedly.

After the rather loud explosion of rebutted ‘Guy Martin retirement’ news released by MCN, it might raise the odd skeptical eyebrow that it was also MCN that announced – just hours later – the official confirmation from Honda that it was an error with their bike which caused John to crash.

Honda Team Manager, Jonny Twelvetrees released today in a statement that after having extracted and reviewed the data from the ECU on McGuinness bike, they can now confirm that it was a setting on the ECU race kit software that resulted in the throttle, unexpectedly, blipping.

Speaking about the incident, Twelvetrees had this to say,

“Although at the time there was a long delay in getting the data from John’s bike due to the ECU being damaged – the ECU had to be sent all the way to the supplier in China to extract the data from it – we put in a countermeasure of a new spec of ECU for the TT to ensure the problem wouldn’t happen again.

http://www.motofire.com/2017/07/sport/honda-quietly-release-details-of-fireblade-failure-in-mcguinness-crash/

McGuinness has been diagnosed with a compound fracture to the bottom of this right leg Tibia and Fibula, and four broken vertebrae and three broken ribs in the accident at the NW200

http://www.motofire.com/2017/05/sport/honda-make-official-statement-john-mcguinness-guy-martin-nw200-tt/

Damn it... Guy Martin had a wipe out in the beginning of the Isle of Man TT this past weekend. Yet another chance at the trophy snatched from him

Isle of Man TT is tomorrow

the Isle of Man Motor Museum is also currently building a steam motorcycle to attempt to set the land speed record for steam

http://www.isleofmanmotormuseum.com/attractions/