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People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways.
People who race bikes don't talk about crashes. They keep going.
Pike's Peak was the single best thing I've ever done in motorbiking.
Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.
Road racing has given me a good life, and I'm not being cocky, but I've brought something to racing, too.
Short-circuit racing is full of health and safety, but the reason I ride a motorbike is because of the danger, and there is no place more dangerous than the TT.
Some riders believe in all the hype at the TT; have a successful week, give up work then go and buy motorhomes and cars. I like to get back to normal afterwards and go to work.
Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.
Speed on its own isn't always so exciting. On a racing motorbike, I can do over 180 mph, which is fast, but not as fast as the airliners that we all climb aboard to fly off on holiday. Modern passenger jets can cruise at between 500 and 600 mph, but sitting in an aeroplane like that for hours on end isn't very exciting, is it?
Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.
The idea for the 'Speed' series was to break the record for the fastest push bike.
The most common way to crash coming out of a corner is to highside - which is where you accelerate out of the corner, and the rear loses grip, then suddenly finds grip and chucks you off the bike.
The only thing I keep from the races I've won are the handle bar grips from the bike, the rubber bits.
The TT taxes your mind.
There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.
There's no more expensive sport than racing bloody motorbikes.
They don't call it the Wall of Death for nothing. The biggest risk is crashing off the top. That's when it gets really messy.
TV people are great folks, but if I said, 'Come and film a beetroot-jar-opening competition,' they would.
TV's not really a job, is it?
We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.
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