Gee Cee Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Loved the story in the Daily Mail about the motorcyclist who rode round a rollercoaster in Mexico City. Instead of closing the Mountain Circuit for four weeks of every year, why don't we just build a rollercoaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxman1980 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 As the story was in the Daily Mail have you checked that this actually happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Ah, so if it's for wimps it's not dangerous then, and so you must have no complaints about it continuing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truth Seeker Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The link below has a video of the stunt. Video: Julien Dupont just found a way to make rollercoasters even scarier - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/virals/11279303/Julien-Dupont-just-found-a-way-to-make-rollercoasters-even-scarier.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 As the bikers on here ( I think ) will agree, what that video shows was a piece of piss compared to riding the TT at speeds of up to 200 mph and not too much different from what Steve Colley does. What's the big deal ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudcheck Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I think Steve Colley would be able to wheelie all the way around that no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Terrier Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I think Steve Colley would be able to wheelie all the way around that no problem. Dave Taylor wheelied around the TT course in the 70's...on a 500 Yamaha XT single if I remember correctly. He also did a variety of safety promo work including teaching John Noakes at the Bungalow in the 70's. Shep (1971-87) was Noakes's Border Collie and probably more famous than he was; certainly more intelligent. TBT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey boy Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Obviously filmed in more tolerant times, or in other words before Richard Crowhurst moved over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I think Steve Colley would be able to wheelie all the way around that no problem. bet he does it with one foot off the foot peg. One trick* pony *if you call that a trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaipyr Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Obviously filmed in more tolerant times, or in other words before Richard Crowhurst moved over.Not tolerant, just ignorance of the damage caused to the environment and wildlife in those days, and before hordes of UK bikers were encouraged to come here to wreck the uplands. It was a reasonably sustainable activity before then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee Cee Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 Very well said Snaipyr. Whilst the TT is a bloody nuisance for a few weeks of the year, the off road bikes are a destructive menace all year round. It is often argued (quite wrongly in my view) that the TT brings money to the Island. These off road bikers are destroying the Island, and benefit only the person who organises the trips. I think that the organiser should be put in stocks in the middle of the new Ronaldsway Affordable Housing Scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Gee Cee,you have to be a bimbo. Best I could hope for you would be an early...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballaughbiker Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 These off road bikers are destroying the Island Destroying?? Really?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Don't sweat it dude,the idiot reads the daily mail. Prime candidate for mediocre thinking. Just shake a feed bag at it,it''ll follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bastard Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 It is often argued (quite wrongly in my view) that the TT brings money to the Island. These off road bikers are destroying the Island, and benefit only the person who organises the trips. Calm down. dearie. Did you forget your medication again ? Whatever "view" you have, the FACT that the TT brings in money to the island is indisputable - there have been a number of studies, and the figures are publicly available. Whatever your "view" is, they don't make the facts any different. The off-road bikers aren't destroying the island. It's still here, we don't need to put on lifejackets and start blowing up lifeboats or anything. There isn't a huge erosion valley about to split the island in two and the west side of the island isn't about to break free and float away, like on Father Ted. The bikers are using public roads that suffer from erosion - people were complaining about erosion on the island's roads before the invention on the motor car. Bikes can contribute to erosion, but they also bring in a net economic benefit in sales of bed spaces, food, drink and fuel. Erosion management is already being talked about by the Government and the various interested parties, and in the past week, trail restrictions were announced. When I read reactions like yours I often think it's a way of masking simple xenophobia, a fear of "outsiders" coming in and "destroying the island" as if they were Vikings hopping off longboats, burning torches and axes in hand, ready to do millions of pounds worth of improvements to Peel. Things like the rows over green lanes are simply a way of reacting to societal changes by entrenchment against a shadowy, ill-defined enemy who's threatening to "destroy the island". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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