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  1. 28-07-2004, 09:35 AM #1
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    Talking Not exactly the best way to take Quarterbridge on the TT circuit...

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  2. 28-07-2004, 10:09 AM #2
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    Funny, but jeez...if that had happened flat out going over the mountain!!!.
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    bwarr haarr haarr ....

    quality course, drove mad Sunday 2 years running (although one year it was a Monday due to so many deaths ) ..

    i nearly broke my ankle round sandbanks on the mountain ...
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    The bike bounces a good foot off the ground there!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ken
    bwarr haarr haarr ....

    quality course, drove mad Sunday 2 years running (although one year it was a Monday due to so many deaths ) ..

    i nearly broke my ankle round sandbanks on the mountain ...


    Sandbanks?? where's that then?

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    lol 'whoops.'
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    How did it happen? Did the wheel just fall of?
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    I think he came down Bray Hilll, realised that the front wheel wasn't done up and tried sto stop before he had to go round a proper corner.... brakes on coming down the hill into QB, drum brakes, tie rod probably pulled the wheel out of the forks...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tumble
    I think he came down Bray Hilll, realised that the front wheel wasn't done up and tried sto stop before he had to go round a proper corner.... brakes on coming down the hill into QB, drum brakes, tie rod probably pulled the wheel out of the forks...
    Like i i say, good job it happened at the slowest part of the course...bet he felt a right numpty though...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tumble
    Sandbanks?? where's that then?

    its the name of one of the bends near the top, unless ive been misinformed ..
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    nope.. you've been porkied to mate.. coming out of Ramsey... you got May Hill, Ramsey Hairpin, Waterworks, Tower Bends, Gooseneck, Joey's (recently renamed cos it's on the 26th milestone- 26 wins for Joey RIP), Mountain Mile, Black Hut, Verandah Four Bends, Bungalow, Hailwood's Rise, Brandywell - highest point, can't remember the next 2, Windy Corner, the 33rd [Milestone], Keppel Gate, Kate's Cottage, Creg-ny-Baa, Brandish, Hilberry, Cronk-ny-Mona, Signpost, Bedstead and Governor's Bridge at the bottom.

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    What a place!.
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    yeah, and that's just the 7 miles or so over the mountain... I could fill a whol;e page up with the names of all the bits on the rest of the 30.5 miles of it

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