Just read the interview and this hit home big style:

"But I've always said this: when test tickles were being given out, I was at the back of the queue. Because there's no way. If it's test tickles that that's what it takes to go down Bray Hill flat-out, I haven't got them. I'm not too proud to say, "No, that would scare the poo out of me. I do not want to die. No." Call me an old-fashioned bore and a gay man, I don't know, but I don't want to die. And if you do the TT, you go down Bray Hill that first lap, you have to say to yourself, "If I make one mistake, if I have one technical problem with this bike, I know the consequences, and I'm prepared to take that, because this means more to me than my life." You have to. And if you don't do that, you're going in there with the wrong conception of what it's all about."


Fair enough and well said. Due respect to Mr H.