Worst TT Memories

[matthewsayle]

C mon we all have has some shit luck but thats what msg boards are for.

[Eurocup]

2011
Eckart and Team

[oldbelly]

My first TT in 88. Only finished two laps of practice and no laps in either race. Rodded three TZ 750s and one of them wasnt ours. Hated the place ,said I would never go back. Just as well I changed my mind

[Fitz]

1998ish (maybe 99) riding with John Tomlinson (newcommer), we broke down at QB on the Monday morning session and was all down to a dud battery, so we were sorted for Monday night.

Came off the Varandah into the left and was running the bit of kerb stone on the outside. 'Hmm I thought, shall I tell him to knock it off a little?.....Nah'

Went into the braking area for the left at the Bungalow with no brakes and rather than trying to make the corner and roofing it, John picked a line straight on. Well we had the bails, the bit of catch fencing at which point the ticket hut was coming towards us still at some speed so I decided to bail out.

Dunno how (other than I am fat) I bounced and went adeah of the bike which then collected me again on the way past as the marshals ran and John ended up still on the bike, still running in the side of that stone hut.

We had smashed the kill switch off and it was still trying to drive in 4th or 5th gear on the mud and non of the marshals could stop it. I got to my feet, grabbed a fistful of wiring and pulled and that did the trick.

I then realised I was in quite some pain so had a lay down and waited for the helecopter trip to the Old Nobles. Cheeky so and so's wanted to cut my brand new 'branded leathers' off me. At that moment my dad turned up and asked where I was and then said 'don't bother answering that, I can here him swearing' and I was fighting the nurse with the scissors off!

I was meant to be kept in but I think if memory serves (and he can put a year to it) Geoff Bell has an off either in the morning or evening session and was kept in so I deciided I would rather go home than listen to him whining for an evening (Sorry Geoff)!!

[oldbelly]

What do you mean whining on for an evening Fitz. I was in there for a week. I was whining till they let me out the Friday to go to the pub.

[dick tapken]

watching the steering head nut coming off and bouncing over me shoulder going down brayhill

[Sideslip]

Seeing the Mac Hobson/Kenny Birch crash on Bray Hill in 1978.
That haunted me for a long time............

[lee a]

I can think of a few but riding with Dennis Proudman was one don't think we even got a lap in all practice week after we killed his 600 motors we returned to his garage to build the 350 that was hanging on the wall got it finished just in time for final practice . We got as far as the end of the pitlane exit and the gear lever fell off we stopped at the top of bray hill where my Dad was standing behind the wall laughing

[Fritz]

On the Wednesday morning of practice week in (94) I was asked to help transport the CRS Britten Superbike that Mark Farmer had ridden that year to a reception for the New Zealand riders who had been brought over to see what was what on the IOM.
The chap who owned the bike told me about the £50,000 he had paid for the machine and support for the TT races, and the story of the colours of CRS (Cafe Racers and Superbikes)

Then on the very next day Mark Farmer lost his life on that very same machine.

Regards,

Fritz,,,,,,,,

[frankie66]

TT 88 I was in pit lane for my old man and knew he was 7th on last lap, light came on at sign post and he's on for approx 103 having never done a ton lap before...then he doesn't come over the line...he's binned it at govners .straight through the wall which a certain mr lambert was sat on watching , the worst part of all this ....the old man never got his ton lap and being so close to it.

[WEBBO]

Little corner called "13th" ( I think I got it wrong ).