Joey Dunlop Articles
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21 April 2014
News
The Roadracers
With a voiceover you would expect for a documentary about the last uncontacted Amazonian tribe, The Roadracers, shot in 1977 and released in 1979, offers a strangely voyeuristic look at three Irish road racers from Armoy: Frank Kennedy, Mervyn Robinson and Joey Dunlop. While billed as a celebration of the skill and tenacity of road racers, certain points of the film seem to paint racing as a frivo...
06 May 2011
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Joey Dunlop, Mr. Careful
"That's one of the backmarkers in that dark place, you have to be careful." "There are a lot of walls around there, you have to be careful." "You have to be careful there, catch the wind coming off the road." Listening to Joey Dunlop softly narrate a 1984 TT practice run on his Honda V4, the warning to be careful is repeated for nearly every section of the course. Screaming down the road through ...
13 May 2010