They don't call them 'Road Warriors' for nothing, this isn't racing it's fighting on a bike.
These and the roads like like them are local to me, I regularly pop down to watch them when they are down in the South of the country where I live. some of the roads actually have bits of grass growing out the middle of them. I have genuinely walked up wider garden paths than some of the roads these folks are reaching 200mph on.
Proper mental.

Thanks guys! Guy Martin drives anything and everything! From bicycles to rocket ships / jet engine cars on a "sea bed" in a desert. And F1 Racing boats etc.. He has his own TV-series, where he tries / drives to break "records" with everything that moves. Idris Elba has similar shows also. (Maybe for Lucy...)😍😍

"The Isle Of Men: The World's Deadliest Motorcycle Race" is a good vid that interviews one of the riders that had a nasty crash back in 2010 and gives some of the history and info about the race as well (the TT specifically), highly recommend to check it out.

A different breed of human!

They aren't lifting the front wheel on purpose, in fact they are struggling to keep the front wheel down, the bikes have so much power that they lift the front wheel automatically when accelerating hard. The bumps, drops and crests also don't help in keeping the front wheel down either. 😁

The prize money for the Isle of Man TT is peanuts compared to other races and the risks potentially incurred - the prize in itself is simply to have survived and done one's best, to stand tall and say I did it! Many people, unfortunately, die every year during this race and these guys truly are monsters in their art. It's accurately nicknamed the deadliest race on the planet for a solid and very unfortunate reason: It is. This sort of thing is in the fiber of our beings and given the death toll other nations would have banned it - but it has luckily become an institution and persists despite those who lobby for it to be halted. Raise a glass to the road warriors ... they're legends !!!

It’s 2am and I’m on YouTube watching this with mad anxiety lol

They don't try to pull the front wheel off the ground.  They are just putting so much power to weight ratio to the pavement that the front end gets light.  They do all they can to keep it down

You guys really should check out the  TT Sidecar racing..
Those guys and girls really do have several screws loose.

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Fun Fact , these are mobility scooters for the elderly, going down the road to do the weekly shopping lol 😂

I've raced cars in real life quite a bit over the years, no where near these speeds or level though lol. But in my experience, the first time you have a shit your pants moment, it either scares you to the point you call it a day, which is what happens for most people, or.. it gives you such a thrill you become addicted to that sudden burst of adrenaline. You kinda know there and then if you love it or not. Once you have the bug, everything else stops being scary. The real pros learn to control the adrenaline and by doing this they enter the most euphoric place a human can probably go. Some people liken the effects to heroin or compare it to the feeling people get with near death experiences, almost like a DMT trip. I can't quite describe it but the pursuit of that happy place is what all these extreme sports guys are chasing like a drug.

its our average commute to work if your late

Just so you know, the Isle of Man is between the Uk and Ireland it belongs to either Country. That said it is a self governing British dependency.

The bit where the rider was filmed in first person view, it was not a rider behind him or above, that was Guy Martin with a camera. Guy Martin was/is a legend of the TT races. You are right it had feck all to do with money it was all about the riding and getting around the circuit without dying.

5:28 not sure if there was a subtitle with his name cos you guys might be covering it but thats Guy Martin 😁

Guy Martin retired in 2017, he said he was just bored with the yearly race routine and schedule, and two of the other riders in this video have since died racing. RIP to both of them. 🙏🙏 BTW, Guy Martin is at the 5:29 mark.

The front wheel rises under acceleration. Sheer power. They’re struggling to keep the wheel down. Also, some of these guys are now dead. Richard Britton and Martin Finnegan and there’s probably a few more as well.

Here in Ireland 🇮🇪 & Northern Ireland  we have many road races and there's very few places in the world one can road race apart from Ireland, Isle of Mann, UK,Macau, Estonia and Italy as far as I know but banned everywhere else.

There's a great documentary called ' Road' narrated by Liam nesson which is about the Isle of man tt and the Dunlop family who are legends in the sport.

I would recommend it to anyone. But I think you guys would really enjoy it.

The front wheel coming up is a result of torque when you put the power on and not by choice. One usually puts ones weight as far forward as possible to prevent it but there's so much power that it's unavoidable when you're really trying to keep another guy behind you or overtake. As far as going fast in a straight line, once you get to 150mph you can't hear the engine because of the wind noise and you start wondering what would happen if something went wrong with the bike like a blow-out, chain snapping or engine seizure. Once you get to 200mph plus it starts to feel like it's not real any more. I've only done this once on a circuit and would never do it again. I nearly shat myself and my bike didn't enjoy it much either. Love you guys. ✌️♥️🇬🇧