Regretably, the public think that if a biker is even injured on the Island it has something to do with the TT...This has been so for many years...

I used to have a neighbour who saw me getting out of my car, beautifully sunburnt, with all my souvenirs and with a smile on my face having seen TT racing with all the extras, to be greeted with a sneering "Another three then ?"

How do you get round this when all the papers report are accidents, accidents.....

This weekend there's no pic of Button coming third only a great smash involving Ralf Schumacher...

And that's supposed to sell newspapers ?

The general public is now brainwashed into wanting to hear and see death and destruction and to me this is an unhealthy outlook on life.

And now the general press hangs, not on the fact that it is a new TT and good things could come out of it, but they are watching the stats for accidents and mayhem...............
It is only a few years ago that a well known newspaper sent a journalist/photographer to the TT.

His brief was to go "where the crashes happen !!"

In the press office among motorcycle journalists he was taken to Governors bridge and the like or even ignored at times.
He made it quite obvious why he was present !
All sad !!!