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My Life, Your Life, Our Life

They say that when you ride a motorcycle there is an element of risk involved but let’s be a little more specific. The risk is the idiots in the cars who see motorcyclists as second class citizens, who neither look out for or stop for. On a motorbike protection is a must and with some nice product design this just got a lot better.

A woman in South Korea has just or should I say finally passed her written test after her 950^th attempt, yes 950 is what you read.  The 68 year old grandmother Cha Sa-soon spent four years and £2,600 on test and application fees.

She scored 60 out of 100 pints in the written exam, she now needs to pass the practical exam, but I fear that the fact she took four years to pass a written test she may actually die before she passes the practical test.

Steve Plater won the senior Isle of Man TT in record time, less than three laps and he averaged 130mph in each lap.  Plater’s team mate John McGuinness retired from the lead on lap four paving the way for Steve’s win.

Steve Plater

“The important thing was to get a good out-lap. All week Neil Tuxworth, the team manager has been moaning at me that I was riding like an old woman, but I think I got it right this time,” said Plater.

Isle of Man TT

Charles R. Collier (b. 1885 – d. 1954), was the first ever winner of the 1907 Isle of Man TT. Both Charles and his brother Harry Collier raced matchless motor-cycles that were manufactured by the company his father owned, H. Collier & Sons.  Charles not only won the TT twice, with three podium finishes but he was also the first ever competitor to be disqualified from the TT race for illegal refuelling.

On Tuesday 28^th May 1907 during the Single Cylinder race of 10 laps (158.00 miles) Charlie had an average speed of 38.21 mph and had a time of 4:08.08.2 with Jack Marshall on his Triumph reaching an average

Started on 28^th May 1907 the TT (Tourist Trophies) is a 37 ¾ mile time-trial race held on the Isle of Man, a 220 square mile island in the Irish Sea. Now in its second decade the TT tests both man and machine to the full. All was made possible by the Act of Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man), the 1904 law allowed for the closure of the roads for Gordon Bennett motorcycle race  on Uk roads and the first race was called Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy and organised by the Auto-Cycle Club over 10 laps if the St. John’s Course of 15.8 miles. Four years later motorcycles moved to the legendary Mountain Course.