Each year, a hundred racers and thousands of fans travel to the Isle of Man for the TT: the world's most dangerous motorcycle race. Bill Whitaker reports.
This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 22,2023. The original video can be viewed here.On a tiny island across the Atlantic, one of the world's most unusual and dangerous sporting events is about to get underway.The 30 mile-long Isle of Man sits in the middle of the Irish Sea, with England to the east and Ireland to the west. It once was the seat of a Viking kingdom; today Britain's King Charles is head of state or lord of Man.
Early sidecar outfits looked like what you might see on the street…today they resemble angry, mutant bobsleds.The first motorcycles were basically bicycles with engines strapped on. Today's bikes are bullets, ridden by some of the top pro-racers in the world.Milky Quayle gave us a taste of what it's like to ride the course with a bike mounted on a simulator.Richard 'Milky' Quayle: Up towards the Black Dog. So the whole left--Bill Whitaker: Wow, this is incredible.
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