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DrafterX Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 1:51 PM EST
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The world’s deadliest race has claimed another life.


Motorcycle racer Dan Kneen was killed on Wednesday during qualifying for the Isle of Man TT, an event consisting of several races held on public roads on the independent British island in the Irish Sea.

Kneen crashed on the two-lane A3 road in Churchtown.
The BMW rider died at the scene after crashing in the Churchtown section of the 37.7-mile course.

Kneen was the 147th competitor to lose his life in the 111-year history of the event, and the 256th rider to die on the course, which is set up for two events each year.

Three entrants died during the 2017 edition of the TT.

The Isle of Man is a self-governing crown dependency of the U.K. Considered a tax haven, it is famous for having no speed limits on many of its winding roads.

The 30-year-old Kneen lived on the island and finished third in the Superstock TT class last year. He was competing in the Superbike class this time around.

A second rider, Steve Mercer, was critically injured on Wednesday after colliding with a course vehicle.

The event is scheduled to run through June 8.

Film at 11... Mellow
DrafterX Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 2:10 PM EST
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qK3d1eoH-Qs

Mellow
Buckwheat Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 2:21 PM EST
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Sad. RIP
Cathcam13 Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 2:23 PM EST
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Sounds like something one of my relatives from Ireland would enter.
DrafterX Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 3:31 PM EST
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Ya, I don't race there anymore... Mellow
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#6 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 3:40 PM EST
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Thank you.

Sincerely,
Suspension
DrafterX Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 3:44 PM EST
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Mad
tailgater Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 4:14 PM EST
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I thought the deadliest race were those damn tiki torch nazi's.
SteveS Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 5:02 PM EST
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Cathcam13 wrote:
Sounds like something one of my relatives from Ireland would enter.


I've got ancestry from both Ireland and the Isle of Mann ... maybe that's why if I were a motorcycle rider, I'd be prone to entering this race ... now, if they'd just let me in driving my car, I'd sign up for the next one
Bur Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 6:36 PM EST
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Isn't that the course with the "Ride like a knob and you'll die" signs?

Was in Colorado Springs the weekend a Pike's Peak rider died making a u-turn in the gravel parking lot AFTER finishing the course. Bike "grabbed" traction and high-sided him into the mountain.
deadeyedick Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 7:04 PM EST
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Bur wrote:
Isn't that the course with the "Ride like a knob and you'll die" signs?

Was in Colorado Springs the weekend a Pike's Peak rider died making a u-turn in the gravel parking lot AFTER finishing the course. Bike "grabbed" traction and high-sided him into the mountain.


I did Pike's Peak twice. But running not riding, much safer but lung busting all the same. Got enough bike racing doing Motocross in my lost youth. A rider in front of me sent baseball sized rock into my helmet at speed. Back in those days they just called it " getting your bell rung". Brick wall
deadeyedick Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 7:41 PM EST
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After that little episode I switched from a Maico 400 to a Husquaverna 450 and took up desert enduro racing.
DrafterX Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, May 31 2018, 7:53 PM EST
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Nice bike.. ThumpUp
deadeyedick Offline
#14 Posted: Fri, Jun 1 2018, 7:56 AM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Nice bike.. ThumpUp


It was better than my skills.
DrafterX Offline
#15 Posted: Fri, Jun 1 2018, 8:46 AM EST
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Pretty sure I couldn't hang on anymore.. I rode one once but I was just a kid.. hell I couldn't hang on then either... Mellow
DrafterX Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2019, 10:14 AM EST
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The world’s deadliest racing course has claimed another victim.

Daley Mathison was killed Monday when he crashed his motorcycle at an estimated 130 mph during the Isle of Man TT races, becoming the 259th contestant killed on the Irish Sea island’s 38-mile-long Snaefell Mountain Course. He was 27.

Damn... Sad
Mr. Jones Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2019, 3:39 PM EST
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Sounds like
"DEATH RACE 2019"....

WHERE iS dAVId caRRadine and SyLvEster StAllOne?
And adrIennE BaRbeAu?
delta1 Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2019, 4:01 PM EST
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Adrienne Barbeau....loved her....


the death toll keeps rising...takes a lotta balls to race there knowing the numbers....
MACS Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2019, 6:12 PM EST
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It's not big balls... it's a serious lack of brains.
delta1 Offline
#20 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2019, 7:06 PM EST
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big balls and little brains is a baaaad combo...
teedubbya Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, Jun 4 2019, 9:37 PM EST
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Drafter sure likes the island of men
DrafterX Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Jun 5 2019, 8:33 AM EST
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Mad
teedubbya Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Jun 5 2019, 1:04 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Mad



Your O face looks painful
grmcooper Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2019, 9:00 PM EST
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Isle of Mann is the ultimate in road racing. Period
teedubbya Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2019, 9:00 PM EST
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And the fact drafter is gay is no big deal at all.
DrafterX Offline
#26 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2019, 9:07 PM EST
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Mad
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