So Scott Redding is a dick...

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[Timmeh]

WTF I don't even
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[TheSmiler]

Sounds like he wouldn't have the balls to ride in the TT. Also as he rides a bike then he should know you can come off at 20mph and die or 150; It doesn't matter.
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[Carvel]

What a monumental bellend.

Motogp is for girls.
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[gavbriggs]

They obviously don't go and expect to die but they also know the risk they take for their own personal high. It's not my fault they race it's theirs. Just like I wouldn't blame them if I fell off my horse and died as did a lady not far from where I live recently(all be it because of some stupid kids)

Life without risks is pretty boring and mostly impossible.

It would be a sad world if we all lived to be 180 but had no idea what adrenaline felt like or achievement. We'd all be winners wouldn't we, just like the way they patronise disabled children by telling them they are all winners because disabled or 'special' children don't have ambition or drive or don't need adrenaline in their lives either!
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[j00pY]

When the TT is on I find I can hardly bring myself to watch the MotoGP.

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[CaNsA]

Let's pick this shit apart.

[Karlbristol]

I'm going to indulge this for just one minute for fear of getting annoyed otherwise.....

So an experienced motorbiker enters a high speed road race and for one reason or another crashes and dies injuring no one else. It is tragic and no one can change that. They are however doing something that they have a passion for, love, and would probably be happiest going out doing. Said motorbike rider hasn't hurt or injured anyone else and has competed of their own volition and not under duress.

This is so say a reason of cancel an event.... If looking at recent tragic motorsport deaths surely Scott would be better off looking at the Jim Clark rally!!!

A cager goes on a rally in Scotland and comes off the track critically injuring one person and ensuring three others have some pretty significant injuries. Just two hours later another car on the same rally track comes off the track and kills three spectators, critically injuries one more, and causes various injuries to others. The drivers in both of these cars are un-hurt. It is also a sad event, however the drivers are physically unhurt (albeit probably mentally scarred) and have killed other people who were watching an event.

And motorbike racing needs to be banned...
Am I missing something here?


People die doing things that they love every day, but should we 'health and safety' life we would never go anywhere or do anything. You could walk out of the door tomorrow and get hit by a rogue vehicle, suffer a heart attack, etc. People need to experience life and enjoy themselves taking calculated risks. If you don't it is simply existing not living.
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[pinkyfloyd]

Motorcycle racing is dangerous. Motorcycle riding is dangerous. Motorcycle road racing is dangerous.

But then in this day and age breathing is dangerous too.

Personally, and I have said this to a dickhead in work who claimed I was going to die on a bike, I would rather go out on my bike than go out pissing and shitting myself not knowing who I was and I think there isnt a biker among us, or that runs in the TT that would disagree with that.
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[Clutchy]

OP is right, ban motorbikes, they're dangerous too! Sorry I mean to



Didn't know 8 year olds were allowed to ride motrobikes so Op you haven't got to worry for a few more years, I'd be more worried about your SAT's tests that are coming up with grammar like that!
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[Rogerborg]

Ah, he's just all cross and bothered because he's up past his bedtime.
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[Fisty]

Hey Scott.

fuck you.

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[Az]

I also loves how he goes on to say (but in a more retarded way) about how it's basically unsafe and unfair to put the riders in danger and as a consequence it could result in a distraught family.

He's clearly the prime example of how we should behave on a track. We should actually be racing around with no gear on or no helmet while doing rolling burn outs on R1's.

https://images.bennetts.co.uk/Global/Bike%20Social/Scott%20Redding%20-%20Bennetts%20Yamaha%20-%203.jpg

https://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/49845000/jpg/_49845495_104150502.jpg

[Ariel Badger]

After the TT coverage last night on ITV 4 there was Moto GP. I turned off after six laps of tedium.
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[krarkol]

People die in MotoGP, lets ban that too!

And Football, people have died mid-game!

Personally, I think he's speaking out of grievance and might see sense soon and delete his tweet.

I'd go more than 132mph through a village if I knew the road and knew that it was pretty much guaranteed there'd be no pedestrians or other vehicles

Rather die biking than sat in my own shit watching daytime TV
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[Alex A]

Hypocrite.

[Pigeon]

He just seemed to have a sad response having lost another rider he knew, seemed to be just venting. Not gonna rip into him for that.

But would disagree with anyone wanting to ban the TT. As some unknown yank once said, the TT is one of the last bastions of human freedom. To truly decided to put it all on the line and compete against the best riders and the best track in the world.

That doesn't mean its not sad when someone dies, and it doesn't mean that those close to those involved won't have an even greater emotional response.

And as Gary Johnson (and others) have said, even though its tragic, they'll be back out in the afternoon and the pace will be no slower.

[Ariel Badger]

We lose mates and heroes in racing, it is a game of ghosts .
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[Llama-Farmer]

He is entitled to his opinion, everyone is.

But sometimes those opinions should be kept to themselves. This is one of those times.



There has to be some sensitivity if voicing opinions like that, and doing so hours after the death of a racer is not the time... it dishonours them by basically saying they should be saved from themselves.

It was the case with Si Andrews at the NW too, and they had that fuckwit BBC NI chat show presenter telling everyone it should be banned even though he knew nothing about it.



Scott has alienated a lot of people with his opinions on the TT, and as a bike racer himself you would hope he had more admiration and respect for the riders to extend some professional courtesy and not voice them.



He says its not fair on the families... but neither is cancer, or a stroke, or Alzheimer's, or war.

I'd rather my loved ones died quickly and painlessly whilst doing something they loved, over a long enduring illness that saps them of strength til they're stuck in a bed, or losing their faculties until they don't even recognise their own family.

If I had friends or family who raced, of course it would be devastating if they were killed.
But it is devastating when they die of cancer at the age of 18, or their Snatch Land Rover gets hit by an IED in Afghan a few weeks before their 21st birthday. Sadly neither of those were quick deaths, neither of them were painless deaths. And neither of them were experiencing an unmatchable thrill at the time.
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[Major Doss]

Dear Scott Redding,
I understand that you feel passionate about loss of lives in motorsport, highlighted herein your missive re; IOM TT. Many humane people would, and do, feel the pain. It's OK, kiddo. I always had an eye out for Harris' results, proper racer. RIP.

BUT;

How lucky are you in your airbag leather, airbag wall, probably airbag gravelled mongtard funless, personality devoid jetset dorna world?
You fucked up your hand last year. You had a couple of 'offs'. You could have proper fucked yourself up, truth be told, in your rise to stardom.
Bazza, Giacomo and many others railed against the lack of safety systems in place for riders on what were deadly tracks global. Yes, they were instumental in its removal from the circus, but this was in an era of bendy frames, shite tyres and power, delivered in nth rpm powerbands.
Jarno Saarinen was killed on a track deemed safe, compared to the IOM.
How fucked up Ernst Degner at Suzuka? Daijiro Kato? Best 'safe' track in the fucking world!
Norrick Abe on a fucking street?
Mike? For a bag of chips. His daughter?
Mawkish, glib rhetoric will not serve you well, you and no-one has to 'do' the TT. Choice, bumsqueak, choice.
Count yourself cnuting lucky the IOM is no longer worth 25 points on the calendar. Grow a pair, and quit the safety shit.
Get yourself on a couple of podiums, worry about that. hope your hand is feeling better.

Yours, me.



Million to Cansa, BTW
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