My reason to visit the Isle of Man over 59 years was to see the TT.

Today there is such a "thin layer of jam on our bread", with so much extra filling, some of which is total dross, that the TT takes a back seat in the eyes of the New Fans who are brainwashed into attending a motorcycling festival scene, and disregard the TT, forgetting when it was the ultimate race for man and machine.

Did you realise that many of todays TT visitors don't even watch a race !!!

The TT is still a great event but it is in danger of being buried in amongst a lot of other things which dilute the concept.

I wrote an article a few years ago that the whole programme for TT fortnight should be trimmed and refined and therefore make the TT the prime event of the period.

Perhaps it has, but in my mind, it still not right..