TT 2018

[WTF 5,925]

well they won't carry the senior race over to a saturday like has been done because so many marshals are on the boat friday night.

[Max Power 6,346]

20 minutes ago, WTF said:

well they won't carry the senior race over to a saturday like has been done because so many marshals are on the boat friday night.

That's the problem with not recruiting more locals.

[dilligaf 9,364]

12 minutes ago, Max Power said:

That's the problem with not recruiting more locals.

Max, interest is waning fast from locals, so there is no chance you're going to recruit more locals as marshals.

The average age of bikers is getting older rapidly, same as the age of marshals and indeed spectators and TV viewers ( I'd guess )

 You have your finger on the pulse, so to speak, so you must see the decline, even though gov say the figures are up every year.

 A lot of people don't want to admit that the TT is not what it was and can never be.

Everything has it's day.

[finlo 4,717]

It's got 5 years max left.

[dilligaf 9,364]

25 minutes ago, finlo said:

It's got 5 years max left.

It definitely has big problems ahead. Shame people are not free to talk about these issues without being bad mouthed.

Reality will dictate the future of these events, as more and more people find the deaths a bitter pill to swallow.

Not ever sure that it is better that bull fighting in the great scheme of things.

We cannot make the TT slower as that is the big deal, so we can only wait till the negatives come home to roost.

I wonder just how many have to "succumb" before it is deemed too many.? £££££££££££

Edited May 20, 2018 by dilligaf

[Rab 16]

£18 for a TT program? It is a magazine, and should not cost more than £4. Total rip off.

[yootalkin2me 917]

The TT on the one hand, is growing globally, massive interest internationally. However, interest locally is declining, very few Marshals originate from the island, the only young ones are children of Marshals who probably have little choice. As professional a touch maybe brought into the TT it still has a whiff of hillbilly redneck racing about it. Personally, I feel indifferent about the TT. I've never bought a TT program and I never will, not at the fucking prices they're flogging them for.

[dilligaf 9,364]

Who are the "big" names this year then.?

People say the TT is the pinnacle of road racing, so who are these top riders.?

Are most of them missing ?

[dilligaf 9,364]

2 minutes ago, yootalkin2me said:

The TT on the one hand, is growing globally, massive interest internationally. However, interest locally is declining, very few Marshals originate from the island, the only young ones are children of Marshals who probably have little choice. As professional a touch maybe brought into the TT it still has a whiff of hillbilly redneck racing about it. Personally, I feel indifferent about the TT. I've never bought a TT program and I never will, not at the fucking prices they're flogging them for.

By that you mean people watching " telly". That will never prop up the aging dinosaur that is the TT.

[yootalkin2me 917]

1 minute ago, dilligaf said:

By that you mean people watching " telly". That will never prop up the aging dinosaur that is the TT.

I do mean by the telly yes, and you are quite correct that telly alone will not prop up the TT. The TT itself is in decline and the Marshals are getting fewer and even those who Marshal are getting pissed off. The first thing the authorities should do is fuck the festival of motorcycling right off, all that is is a spectacle for old machines and old farts....oh, and wannabe TT racers with IQ's equal to that of a Kipper. 

[TheTeapot 9,627]

£45 to watch Reef at the grandstand. Amazing.

[dilligaf 9,364]

48 minutes ago, yootalkin2me said:

I do mean by the telly yes, and you are quite correct that telly alone will not prop up the TT. The TT itself is in decline and the Marshals are getting fewer and even those who Marshal are getting pissed off. The first thing the authorities should do is fuck the festival of motorcycling right off, all that is is a spectacle for old machines and old farts....oh, and wannabe TT racers with IQ's equal to that of a Kipper.  

Well, there we differ.

I would keep the FOM/ Classic and bin the TT itself.

But maybe fair to say that the TT itself is a historic event.  

 

Edited May 20, 2018 by dilligaf

[woolley 19,198]

58 minutes ago, Rab said:

£18 for a TT program? It is a magazine, and should not cost more than £4. Total rip off.

Do they just price it according to what year it is?

[woolley 19,198]

1 hour ago, dilligaf said:

It definitely has big problems ahead. Shame people are not free to talk about these issues without being bad mouthed.

Reality will dictate the future of these events, as more and more people find the deaths a bitter pill to swallow.

Not ever sure that it is better that bull fighting in the great scheme of things.

We cannot make the TT slower as that is the big deal, so we can only wait till the negatives come home to roost.

I wonder just how many have to "succumb" before it is deemed too many.? £££££££££££

Well if nobody wanted to race and nobody wanted to watch or marshall, that would be a problem for the folks sitting in an office and drawing a salary for organising it.

[dilligaf 9,364]

1 minute ago, woolley said:

Well if nobody wanted to race and nobody wanted to watch or marshall, that would be a problem for the folks sitting in an office and drawing a salary for organising it.

What, like both of them.?