ubercooper

from the Munster 100 road race

Chaos

Bet there is a organ harvesting team nearby.

Sterling Doc

Wife is betting they all have tetsticles.
Yep, big ones.

Kein_Ersatz

In the world of organ transplant teams, upon seeing young males emulating this on the streets, many sans helmet, I believe the phrase is donor-cycle.

To paraphrase:

Potomac-Greg

We **** & moan about open faced versus closed face helmets, and 5 vs 6 vs 7 point harnesses. I feel like an old lady now.

mrbill_fl

right,

I was flagging a miami bike (street) race in the 80's and saw a guy go off, do about 3 somersaults in the air hit the ground and then the wall... total yardsale.

so I ran over to see if he was even alive, and first thing out of his mouth was where's my bike... next thing I know he's up on his bike and gone...

I talked to him after the race, and found he had a broken ankle... but didn't want to see a doctor, since the doctor could ground him, and he wanted to race on sunday. he just cut his boot up the side and duct-taped it. -came in 2nd sunday. jamie james. (he had #1 on his bike that year.)

crazy mudderfuddrs!

CWay27

True and very funny!!

gums

What event is that, Munster 100, and where?

Nordschleife

its a bike race and its in Munster, the Irish province not the city in Germany.

street racing on bikes still goes on.

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stownsen914

I'm sure many of us have heard of the Isle of Man motorcycle race (actually a time trial). I am not a motorcycle guy, but I've heard of the Isle of Man event. It supposedly attracts international attention and top riders. I understand that it's super high speed (i.e. race bikes do 175+ mph top speed, and average 120+ mph) on public roads that aren't necessarily in good shape. And that riders get killed at this event every year .... 4 in 2010 and 6 in 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT

Nordschleife

this "sort of" explains the Munster 100

http://roadracing.webnode.cz/news/munster-100/

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Nordschleife

conveniently, the annual Boxing Day Race in NZ is held at Wanganui on the Cemetery Circuit

its more a black humour thing than a ***** of steel issue

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