On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 4:00:06 AM UTC-4, Paul T wrote:
At 00:07 01 November 2019, Craig Funston wrote:
On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4:56:24 PM UTC-7, Bob
Kuykendall wrote:
On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4:20:55 PM UTC-7,

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te:
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The Isle of Mann TT is an outlier even among motorcycle
racing.
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Beat me to it. In my experience, racing at a well-equipped track
like
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oma (nee Sears Point) is safer than riding on the street. Everyone
is
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the same direction, no car is going to try to make a U-turn right in
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of you, and all of the obstructions are padded. In the four years I
raced
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at Sears Point, we only had one fatality.

Indeed. I believe Isle of Mann averages just over one fatality per
year.
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sanity.


All activities have a risk/reward element People who race the Isle of
Man know the risks and accept them, but for them the rewards in
participating in this activity outweigh the risks -if the risks are too
much for you don't do it ... but don't call people who do insane -
that's imposing your value judgement on to others..

I'm with you on that. The Isle of Man is fantastic.