The 1950 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy festival marked a significant transition in motorcycle racing, as new talents emerged and traditional elements bid farewell....

Record breking lap times to record breaking wins it really is the best motorsport event in the world, roll on 2024...

#TTrace #TT2023...

With 22 wins under his belt I sincerely hope the critics will start giving him the credit he deserves.To continue racing (& be able to focus) after everything he's been through shows the true grit...

The year 1949 marked a significant milestone in motorcycle racing history with the introduction of the Grand Prix World Championship, a six-race annual series that captivated enthusiasts worldwide. Am...

The Isle of Man TT Race in 1948 was a historic event, as it featured a record 100 riders who participated in the race. The post-war blues were firmly dispelled, and the spectators witnessed some of th...

The Isle of Man TT race festival, which was interrupted by the Second World War, resumed in 1947, with three Clubman-class races added to the usual Senior, Junior, and Lightweight races. The event ran...

TT No Limit sorry another 2 mins clip, but we’ll worth a look, straight through the door at Ballacraine and no trees at the Water Works...

John McGuinness Is Returning To Honda For The 2022 Road Racing Season And Will Compete At The North West 200 And Isle Of Man TT. The 23-Times TT Race Winner Will Line-Up Alongside Honda BSB Rider, And...

In 1939, the world’s most spectacular motorsports event became a propaganda exercise for the Nazis....

As war clouds gathered in 1939, the German government was determined to boost national prestige by dominating every international sporting event, and the TT races were no exception. The 1939 Isle of...

The single-cylinder Nortons and Velocettes continued to hold the foreign invasion at bay in 1938. Between 1931 and 1937 Norton had six Senior-TT wins with the long-stroke CamShaft One (CS1) engine....

The tide was slowly turning against the British singles, although Norton kept the flag flying in the Senior and Junior races in 1937. Lightweight TT There was a Continental success in the Lightweig...

Woods returned in 1936 without the Moto Guzzis as a result of Italy’s involvement in the war in Abyssinia. Naturally, he still had the pick of the best machinery and joined Ted Mellors and Ernie Thom...

Stanley Woods always had a new trick up his sleeve and he arrived on the Island for the 1935 races (in the middle of a general strike) armed with 250 and 500cc Moto Guzzi’s - and a new teammate, Omobo...

In the early 1930s, Moto Guzzi badly needed a new design to replace its team’s elderly 500cc 4-valve singles. Guzzi’s 250cc single was dominating the 250 GP class, and it had a compact unit-constructi...

For the 1934 Isle of Man TT Races despite the winning of four TT Races in 2 years, Stanley Woods parted with Norton motor-cycles over the issue of prize money and race tactics and joined Husqvarna alo...

New Imperial, though not one of the larger Birmingham firms were one of the keenest supporters of the Isle of Man TT Races. They had become addicted to the annual challenge to riders and technicians s...

Norton broke even more records in 1933 by achieving the very first one-two-three in both the Senior and the Junior races. There was no stopping them - or Stanley Woods, who grabbed his second double,...

The Norton-Rudge battle continued in 1932, but, once again, it was Norton who emerged on top, leaving Rudge empty-handed after their unexpected defeat in the Lightweight class. The 1932 Isle of Man T...

The full potential of Rudge’s four-valves-per-cylinder design was slow to emerge, but in 1928 Graham Walker’s works 500 became the first motorcycle to win a road race - the Ulster Grand Prix - at an a...

Interest in the races was intense, with the entry of 153 machines including 22 different makes. Eight foreign factories entered, but Britain still ruled the roost, albeit for the time being. The 1931...

The TT was now gaining great international media attention: for the first time the BBC broadcast part of a race (the Senior), and entries were received from 19 countries, no doubt attracted by the new...

I continue a series of posts about the history of TT races, unfortunately this time I couldn't find many photos, but enjoy what you guys have! thank you to everyone who reads, well, let's start! Sen...

The iconic Isle of Man TT Races have been decimated by the Coronavirus pandemic, having been cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, but far from complaining about the situation the organisers have used the...

‘CG 1150’ has been widely accepted since the mid-1930s as the machine ridden to victory in the 1928 Lightweight TT by Frank Longman. The OK’s history between 1928 and the early 1930s is not known but...

A tragic accident in 1927 led to changes in the practice regulations. Practice took place on open roads, allowing residents to go about their daily business, and riders were left to take their own pr...

The 1927 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy saw more changes occur with a fatal accident during practice to Archie Birkin, a brother to Tim Birkin of the Bentley Boys fame. The corner in Kirk Michael where th...

Further changes occurred in the 1926 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy with the scrapping of the Ultra-Lightweight TT Races from the lack of entries and Side-Car TT, because the manufacturers still unhappy a...