Not much fun for spectators either,.....sat up on the mountain,.....mist coming down,....roads closed,so no way of getting back to the b&b. Not been for 10 years now,but its still not out of my system.
never been, must do it sometime soon while I can drink as much beer as I can and ride as fast as I can...be too old soon
Worth it just for Mad Sunday.Nice to do a couple of laps in the daytime with all the loons and numpties,.......even better to do it in the early evening when they have all gone to tea.
Mood: Channel Swim is now a (bad) memory not a dream
ah memories, know what oyu mean Keith, been three times and will return one day as it's a fabulous way to spend a week off work, sitting huddled behind some wall for hours waiting for the races to start, mist on the mountain, cold drizzle, everything you have is damp, only sheep and a copy of MCN for company....then the sun comes out and the racing starts and the beers flow and it's paradise, nothing like it...every biker should experience it.
Said before on here, but watching in the eitghties when Steve Hislop broke down right next to us and basically sat with us watching the racing with his bike up against a wall until recovery truck arrived...wish I'd known at the time he was going to become one of my favourite riders.
TV coverage has been excellent, we don't say it often, but well done to the TV boys.