Usual story over here

[Stu]

Infinity

On the mountain road its unlimited, ride/drive as fast as you like. The other roads in and around town etc are reduced to 20 in some places I think like those near the ferry terminal.

Stu the mountain road is already a race track, lol an Im not been clever I know its the TT yada yada I mean a road with out a limit which people already arsewhole along all the time. Its as good as a race track its just that there are other racers coming in the opposite direction.

My thought of the one way system comes from what Manx has said about race season, the whole course gets closed off and massive sections including the mountain road become one way. If its works for a few weeks out of the year then why not keep that system in place for the other weeks.

[ethariel]

Originally Posted by leedsmatt7

If its works for a few weeks out of the year then why not keep that system in place for the other weeks.

Exactly, the locals put up with it because of the racing, because of the huge amount of m9oney brought into the island, because, well just because.

However if you start talking about making it permanent then everyone will be up in arms.


Sure it would be great to go to the IoM and have Mad Sunday every day of the week, right up till you are doing 150 on your 1 way race track and you find 2 tractors side by side having a chat round the next bend.........................

To be honest this gets argued here to potential solutions every year. I was chatting the one of the main Ian guys over here this morning for about 30 minutes and we were discussing just how unaware the drivers of other vechiles are. But he also taught me a great price of advice.... Only drive as fast as you can see ahead to be able to stop .... If that makes sense?

[Dave20046]

Cheers for that matt I was looking forward to not riding like an irrationally terrified granny next month.

I almost had a head on with a brainless **** in a sports car the other day on the bike. Going along a NSL road I had a queue of traffic on-coming. When I'm about 50 yards away from an oncoming van; a previously completely concealed (so he was too close!) blue hairdresser thing goes sideways right infront of me and then ploughed straight back to where it came from as he saw me
Never seen a car's front end twitch like that! I'm assuming he almost filled his pants as much as me. Scarily close.

Originally Posted by Ed

What is the speed limit on IoM

Out of towns: copper's discretion I believe.

Originally Posted by ManxMatt34

To be honest this gets argued here to potential solutions every year. I was chatting the one of the main Ian guys over here this morning for about 30 minutes and we were discussing just how unaware the drivers of other vechiles are. But he also taught me a great price of advice.... Only drive as fast as you can see ahead to be able to stop .... If that makes sense?

well yeah! I didnt think I would have been the first person to have offered up that suggestion as a solution and I figured there would be some concrete reasoning for why its not possible. The tractors side by side coming into sight at short range at 150mph is a good argument for why not, but "because its a PITA to the locals" isnt.