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Title: DIAMOND RACES! IoW
Post by: themoudie on July 30, 2020, 09:33:22 AM

Will it?  :-\  Won't it?  :-\  Who knows? :-\

I just hope it doesn't go the way of the Welsh proposal.  :(

Link: IoW_Diamond_Races (https://www.diamondraces.com/?fbclid=IwAR1J7mRIiOSmQdi8k7FWQ9vSHUxwsAoF39IBWUFZmB9cODnLQZRUZDbuHFc)

I'll get my Peterson pipe out, with a malt and wait for Jackanory! Cynical or what?

Regards, Bill

Title: Re: DIAMOND RACES! IoW
Post by: Moto63 on July 30, 2020, 05:05:08 PM

Quote from: themoudie on July 30, 2020, 09:33:22 AM

Will it?  :-\  Won't it?  :-\  Who knows? :-\

I just hope it doesn't go the way of the Welsh proposal.  :(



I'll get my Peterson pipe out, with a malt and wait for Jackanory! Cynical or what?

Regards, Bill

Cynical maybe Bill, still quite amusing though the picture I now have in my head of you 🤣🤣

Title: Re: DIAMOND RACES! IoW
Post by: Steve Lake on August 01, 2020, 03:02:29 PM

well, having lived in the IoW as a kid, and ridden & raced a pushbike round many times, and my dad going off to the TT to race every year, and latterly taking me to the TT to spectate ..... i always thought that the IoW would make a superb road race venue... my dad said it would never happen.
I could see a brilliant course there, even a mountain section, from Ventnor up St boniface down is a fabulus stretch of road up yo the highest point in the island.
but the island has a very well established tourist industry, and anything that might upset that will be resisted mightily , even if the organisers could guarantee similar numbers (or more) of the biking fraternity.
certainly the ferry costs and frequency would be a huge improvement on the IoM.
if the event were held late september early october (after skools go back) then i reckon maybe a 50/50 chance of at least a 1 event trial.
but the costs of policing, marshalling, road closing, and safety checks/fittings could be prohibitive.... certainly the police, local authority, tourism office etc will all have to be on board and enthusiastic ....
good luck to them... i'd even volunteer to help.... done well and with the whole island behind it, it could be a winner.... at worst it'll make the IoM (and the bloody steam packet Co) maybe take notice and buck theit ideas up.

Title: Re: DIAMOND RACES! IoW
Post by: mthee on August 01, 2020, 08:35:49 PM

Would the tourist industry not welcome a big event in the off-season?

Title: Re: DIAMOND RACES! IoW
Post by: Oldtimer on August 01, 2020, 09:03:37 PM

I would certainly go and spectate. looks a wonderful circuit.