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WetRider at the Isle of Man TT Race

What if you had a chance to go to the IOM TT? What if you were scraping together the preparations to go watch, and came upon the opportunity to go RACE?!? Or, even better from my point of view since I'm not a racer and wouldn't have the balls to race THAT course in a million years, what if one of your bestest motorcycling buddies got that chance? One of our WetLeather friends, a qualified racer, is in just this enviable position.

Chris Denzler had a Honda 400 v4 prepped by Slick, Fogarty's ex-WSB mechanic, the ex-Sanyo Honda 600 Superbike, (also built by Slick), the dedicated experienced services of Tearm Aardvark Racing for pit support, and sponsorship from WetLeather and other friends from the Seattle area, as well as locally at the IoM and in England proper. He told us: "I'm a truly lucky man. I'm over 40, and still feel mostly great, still have better than 20/15 vision, have a broad domain of experience, am riding as well as (and far safer than) ever. This is the time for me to do it!"

Chris Denzler's Isle of Man Diary

Chris and Lisa on the Isle, with the 600
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(Photo reproduced here with kind permission of Isle of Man Newspapers Ltd.
The bike below is NOT the bike Chris rode on the Isle of Man. This is Justin Couch's race VFR 400, similar to the one Chris rode.
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USA Preliminaries

2002-11-31
The invitation is received. The Lore is consulted. The decision is made.
2002-12-20
The preparation is begun.
2002-12-31
The promotion is started
2003-01-15
The paperwork is launched. There's a mound of paperwork needed to enter the TT, and get a FIM International Non-Championship race license.
2003-01-30
The FIM license is received
2003-02-07
The critical application is done.
2003-02-28
One bike is dyno'd.
2003-03-15
The sponsorship money is sent to Chris.
2003-04-02
The Official Word arrives!
2003-04-13
A minor setback
2003-04-28
Some good news
2003-05-12
Final one week to go
2003-05-15
Final pre-flight update

On the Isle

2003-05-21 - 30: Diary
On the Isle of Man
2003-06-02: The Race
From start to, well...the pub.
2003-06-03: The Postscript
Some postscript notes

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