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Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.

Well there goes mountaineering, hiking, rock climbing, diving, and whole lot of other stuff.

But it's for their own good, right?
I didn't even say ban - said it obviously has a problem. What are they doing to reduce the deaths? Seems to be nothing. Pretty shocking tbh.
 
I didn't even say ban - said it obviously has a problem. What are they doing to reduce the deaths? Seems to be nothing. Pretty shocking tbh.

Some sports are dangerous. What should be done about it is that everyone should be made fully aware of the risks they're taking and reasonable measures taken to ensure they don't hurt anyone else.
 
Some sports are dangerous. What should be done about it is that everyone should be made fully aware of the risks they're taking and reasonable measures taken to ensure they don't hurt anyone else.
What reasonable measures has the Isle of Man TT put in?

If they'v done anything it doesn't seem to have been effective.
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So they shouldn't do anything to prevent these?

Can't think of any other regulated sport that would just accept this. Even MMA seems btter rgulated and that's a disgrace as well.

You make it as safe as you can but racing motorcycles at close to 200mph is dangerous. No getting away from that. So you either ban it, or let people make their own choices. As we’ve seen, if you go down the banning route you open a whole can of worms regarding other dangerous activities.
 
So they shouldn't do anything to prevent these?
Realistically, what could they do? It's a road circuit, which means there's walls and road furniture instead of run offs and gravel traps. It's intrinsically extremely dangerous. The competitors know this. Indeed, that's part of the challenge.
 
Realistically, what could they do? It's a road circuit, which means there's walls and road furniture instead of run offs and gravel traps. It's intrinsically extremely dangerous. The competitors know this. Indeed, that's part of the challenge.
Less powerful engines?

Do similar races take place elsewhere?

Presumably there’s prize money as well as some people making a profit. Pretty sick tbh.
 
You make it as safe as you can but racing motorcycles at close to 200mph is dangerous. No getting away from that. So you either ban it, or let people make their own choices. As we’ve seen, if you go down the banning route you open a whole can of worms regarding other dangerous activities.
Same old argument as that against meaningful driving bans: 'if you don't let us do it, we'll just do it anyway'. Entitled bullshit.
 
No. If they keep happening they're on purpose.

Like all those plane crashes that keep happening on purpose.
Yes, there are no safety regulations regarding aeroplanes as that would infringe on the right of informed adults to die in plane crashes.
 
Yes, there are no safety regulations regarding aeroplanes as that would infringe on the right of informed adults to die in plane crashes.

There are plenty of safety regulations yet crashes still happen. In edcraw world that means not enough is being done. In maomao world it probably equates to "I don't like flying, let's ban it".
 
Less powerful engines?

Do similar races take place elsewhere?

Presumably there’s prize money as well as some people making a profit. Pretty sick tbh.
There are smaller capacity classes. But you're fundamentally missing the point; the idea is to go as fast as you can. And everyone doing so knows that's a big risk.

Yes, there's road racing elsewhere. But the TT is the premier event, really.

Nobody does it for the prize money, which is almost trivial given the cost of competing.
 
This guy wasn’t inspired by the Isle of Man TT to go at twice the speed limit he just simply needed to get home to his medicine quickly.


Yeah. Proof positive there, Ed!

Definitely the TT that inspired that one. Oh yes! In fact, if anyone gets busted for speeding on the IoM it's because of the TT :D
 
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