missing since mgp cancellation!
have u seen this man
please look in all pubs and bars

Quote from the latest news item : "the chasm between Agriculture & Tourism is greater than ever".

As I said recently on this board, Manxies must somehow encourage and ACHIEVE co-operation and agreement between these two areas, if we are to get back on the roads next year.

Please?????????

Ken Davis where were you?

Good meeting, lucky with the weather.
Like so many, I fell foul of some donkeys bottom who thought it would be a bright idea to outbrake a 250 on a 600 Honda , resulting in me getting punted head first through a picket fence and being stopped by a wire one. Fat Batty Codhead also damaged his bike and I had a few words with him after!!!!!!!!

Thanks to the work of Valentino Cross, Al Biaggi and "Whispering" Al Robinson we got my TZ straightened out for Sundays races.

Thanks to the Totty parked in the bottom paddock opposite Mick Goodings for showing us so much of her thong on Saturday night. There was quite a crowd outside Mick's van !!!!!

Getting concerned with nutters executing do or die manouevers at Scarborough though, hope that Batty Boy isn't there in September.

Glad to hear Ryan is okay after also being shunted into a bank

Hello folks,

I was wondering if there any tz 250 pilots
out there who can help out my teammate.

We are in need of some chassis settings
for a 1993 TZ 250.
Basic/semi-advanced settings would be a great
help! We haven't been able to get a good
set-up under the scooter as of yet.
Thanks to anyone who may be of some assistance!
Cheers,
Jorg

What paddock facilites are available at the Ulster GP please? Is electric available for caravan hook-up as my mate is coming with me and we're bringing his caravan .Also , anything else that I would probably be expected to know , but dont.

Does anyone know of a website that i could trace Previous results of the Manx Grand Prix ? I am interested in the year approx 1952.

MGP cancelled-gutted.So we decide to take 2 more people and have a golfing holiday.Surprise -surprise the Steam(costa)Packet Company are still charging MGP supplement rate.

Dundrod can start 72 in groups,with max any one group 24. Groups go at 30 sec intervals,and the timing is, of course, adjusted!

Not a great surprise, though still bitterly dissapointing that the Manx club has decided to cancel the GP. Contingency plan in place, with regulations winging their way to me for the Ulster GP.

Who els will be making this diversion ?

Cheers

Gav

THE agricultural community has welcomed the decision to cancel the Manx Grand Prix owing to the threat of foot-and-mouth disease.
There are still concerns among farmers that it could spread to the Island as the epidemic in the UK continues.

Agriculture Minister Alex Downie said: ‘My view is that they [the Manx Motorcycle Club] have made the correct decision.’

He welcomed the fact the announcement had been made ‘earlier rather than later’ and said the club should be congratulated.

The committee was advised by the chief vet Eamon O’Donnell and also spoke to a number of farmers around the circuit.

Mr Downie added: ‘At this particular time we have to have regard for the views of the agricultural community.’

The MGP would have attracted fewer people than the race-free TT festivities last month, but Mr Downie said the festival was ‘a different kind of risk entirely’.

Mr Downie said another thing that had to be borne in mind was that the Island has recently received recognition of its disease-free status and is exporting more than 1,000 lambs a week to France.

The minister believes that under different circumstances there was a chance the MGP could have been run.

He added: ‘Had we seen a significant number of reductions in cases and if cases would have been confined to places such as Somerset or Dartmoor I think we would have been able to cope.

‘Unfortunately last week the cases had been in places such as Skipton and in Lancashire, which are right on our doorstep, and anybody coming to the Island for the races would in effect have to pass through a restricted area in the UK or an area where the disease is virulent.’

He said the department is trying its best to ensure other events, not on agricultural land, can go ahead and it has assisted in cycle week, the Island Games and motoring events.

A spokesman said: ‘The department had hoped that the foot-and-mouth epidemic in the UK would by now be under control, thus permitting relaxation of measures intended to as far as possible prevent an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease taking place in the Island.

‘Unfortunately the disease is still active in the UK, with fresh outbreaks occurring.

‘In these circumstances the department had little option other than to recommend that the race meeting should not take place as it considered the risk factors involved were significant.

‘In giving this advice the department has noted that a major rally event has recently been cancelled in the UK in pursuance of the policy of not holding motor sport events in the countryside at the present time.’

John Crellin, resident of the Manx National Farmers’ Union, said: ‘We are thankful that the Manx Motorcycle Club made the decision they did. It was the right one.’

He added it was ‘extremely disappointing’ for the tourist industry and the MMC but added: ‘I had a feeling they would make that decision. It is in the long-term interests of the sport as it maintains the goodwill of the farming community.’

I hear on the grape vine that if the dreaded FOOT and MOUTH is still around come winter (this thing thrives in cold weather) there is a good chance that TT 2002 will be cancelled early to save the IOM government paying out compensation.