TT3D: Closer to the Edge Page #2

you know, I'll have 15 wins, I probably

would have laughed at them

and felI off the wall,

but here I am with 15 wins.

But I still get that,

you know jitters now.

You know, TT's coming. TT's coming.

Building up. Building up.

I get apprehensive, nervous.

Months before the TT you know.

And when I think about it, it makes

me skip a heartbeat, really.

I have to have the house immaculate,

and the garage has to be immaculate.

Everything's got to have its place.

I'll mow the lawn, make sure

that's all right. Clean the cars.

So, just in case anything does happen,

then everything's ready.

I definitely think about it.

It's got to cross your mind.

It has to cross your mind,

cos it's there, all the time.

It's a reality that

you might not come back.

John McGuinness 17.43, 127,

under the lap

record from a standing start!

For two

incredible weeks each summer;

generations of men and women

have made the pilgrimage

to the lsle of Man to pit

themselves against the track,

which has achieved international status

and become synonymous

with speed and glory

At a time when the maximum

permitted speed on English roads

was just 20 miles per hour

and racing strictly prohibited,

a band of enthusiasts

intent on testing their bikes

and themselves to the limits

of speed and endurance

gathered on the Isle of Man,

and in 1907 the Tourist Trophy was born.

You see? Look at the suspension.

You see?

And then we'll put it the other way.

Watch that.

Keep watching.

It'll do something.

See? Look at that. Hey?

Me and Guy have got

the typical father-son relationship.

- Guy knows best, and I knows best.

- Yeah.

I'll put a brew on.

See, a Steadicam That's what it is.

Must have shockers in it or something.

You what?

Say, when you was

holding that thing you can jar

but that takes all the jar

out of the camera, doesn't it?

Are they dear?

I bet it's dear that, innit.

Go on, how much is that arm there then?

Fourteen hundred?

F*** off.

Fourteen grand?

Fourteen grand.

F***ing hell.

F***, have you seen that?

Fourteen grand.

Me first TT was '74,

riding a Gus Kuhn Norton

Commando production bike.

I thought,

I'm gonna be a TT superstar here.

So I set off from...

How old was you?

I was...

How old was I?

Forty seven. What's that, then?

- I don't know. '74... '47. By heck.

- Anyway...

Come into Glen Helen,

up Craig Willie's hill,

cranked it in...

Down, down, down,

no further to go, bang.

Straight over the bank.

The bike finished up in three bits.

And I broke my back.

And I was back at the TT again

the following year.

My worst crash ever?

Probably North West, 2008.

Come off the Black Hill, lost the front,

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