As an aside -

What consitutes risk is worth consideration here;

Defining risk is difficult in itself;

The Risk Rating is of any activity is routinely defined as a function of the potential for a given outcome and the severity of that outcome. So something that happens rarely but is severe has the same risk rating as something that happens a lot but is not very severe.

Everytime a rider on his way home from work or riding the TT course turns the throttle he assess the risk and makes a choice.

Motorcycling is inherantly of a greater risk than driving a car. Risk assessed? (ban motorcycles?)

Life can be lived in a more or less risky fashion. Most of those who race (or even go hard on the public roads) find the thrill of the risk part of the attraction. If there was no risk they would probably find it in some other activity.

Some are for and some against the comparison of deaths in Motorcycling with those in other walks of life. Surely it is really a question of your liberty. If you can head off Mountaineering in the Himalayas without anyone objecting at your attitude to the risk - why should you face objection to racing at the IOM?

Why not make these comparisons if all that is being pointed out is the right to pursue your objectives in the way that others do without hinderance in other sports?

Sam