IOM TT in ultra slow-motion

[Barfridge]

This is the sexiest 8 minutes of footage I've seen in a long time. It's from the 2010 race.



So much detail, amazing cinematography, stuff that happens too fast to normally be seen.

[Barfridge]

And here is the 2011 edition

[Huggy]

Awesome!

[filbert]

amazing stuff, i love how you can see the reflex to try to countersteer some more lean angle into the corner when the front is off the ground and making it run wide.

[Ozboy]

lol, the guys face at 4.22 in the second video. NOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo.

[96]

36 seconds in.

does that CBR look different to the others?

[Old frt]

Absolutely brilliant footage, if only I could have seen what was round the next bend in slow mo

[Mo-Fo]

great vids, the slowmo hides the ball tearing violence of it all. Nice exhaust flames out of the gixxer in the 1st vid at 2.25

looking forward to seing TT3D

[Flygirl]

hehe jumping a sidecar at 4.09. Im sooo gonna do that when mine is delivered

[Barfridge]

Here is a teaser for the 2012 version

[Grin]

And here is the beast that takes all that footage. That's about 400,000GBP I am hanging onto here! Added to that is a kilometre of cable at 50GBP/m, the OB van, oh and the tripod alone costs 14,000GBP!



But here's the REAL operator, Bob Blockley, who was kind enough to share some of his valuable time with us at this year's TT when the race schedule was delayed due to another clown wiping himself out on the course trying to be hero. (5 in 3 days!)



We are set up here at "Conker Fields". The camera runs into an OB van on site where an editor captures the footage in one of 4 memory caches they have available while Bob keeps shooting. When he decides which piece of footage to use he will then commit that to HD and dump the cache for more recording. It's pretty intensive! They move the camera to different spots each day and depending on where they are can sometimes change spots mid race if there is access available.
They can shoot at up to 1000 frames per second (standard is 25) so 1 second of real time equates to 40 seconds of playback! The amazing thing is that the camera is totally manual! No automatic focus, iris etc. so you can imaging the skill invilved in focussing on something coming at you at up to 300 km/h and Bob is one of the few people who can operate these things properly which is why he flies all around the world covering F1, tennis, cricket etc. And a hell of a nice guy to boot! It was an honour to spend some time with him.

[Barfridge]

thanks for the info.

But calling racers unlucky enough to crash 'clowns' is a bit below the belt. I seriously hope you're joking

[Maxo]

here is a teaser for the 2012 version

1:18 - 1:25

[Grin]

thanks for the info.

But calling racers unlucky enough to crash 'clowns' is a bit below the belt. I seriously hope you're joking

NO, NO! Not the racers, nothing but the highest respect for all of them (None of them are slow either, some just faster then others). And thank goodness, no fatalities this year.
No, these are some of the 40,000 bikers that invaded the island this year to watch. Seriously, I have never seen such flagrant disregard for the rest us us that were using the roads than by some of these idiots. If the TT races were ever banned, I reckon it would be on the grounds of the riding behavior of some of the visitors, not the races themselves. In the 3 laps that we did of the circuit by car, when the roads were open, I genuinely felt frightened for both my own safety and that of the would be heroes. We saw some incredible near misses and were lucky not to be caught up in a bike overtaking car head on with a bus. How they missed I will never know. Every morning, Manx radio would be broadcasting the "toll". It was sickening. The incident I referred to happened at Greeba just before the road closed for racing, most people were in position but as usual, there were a few who took it upon themselves to "impress" the assembled crowds with some last minute high speed show of bravado, only this time he wasn't as good as he thought he was and we had a 3 hours delay in procedings while they cleaned the mess up.

[Barfridge]

aah, fair enough. Carry on

[Grin]

By the way Barfy, the sidecar action was amazing. We were sitting on the wall in Kirkmicheal village when Dave Mollyneu came through in practice and Lorene reckoned it was like being buzzed by a fighter jet! You could hear this thing screaming down the hill then a flash as he went past, not backing off one iota for the corners that followed. Great driver, BRAVE passenger! Farking amazing experience.

[Martin1]

nice story Grin - thanks for sharing.

reminds me why this is one of the "must-do" events on my bucket list.