I am reminded here every day of the course that I knew - the minor roads here that we use to nip to the shops (9kms) are so much like parts of the Island - bumps, off-camber and positive-camber, tight bends, open, fast bends, past little hamlets and dirt roads where you have to watch for loose rubble after rains. Thankfully, they do not melt in the summer 40+ degree heat, unlike the 13th Milestone section that killed Santago Herrero in 1970.
Non-TT hazards are a problem though sometimes - the odd burro or horse loaded with harvested produce, with its owner walking alongside (usually chatting on a state-of-the-art mobile!!), dollops of concrete dropped from the many mixer lorries, right on the "racing line", little old men on mopeds - no helmet, little silencing, and doing less than 20kph. Helen and her fellow marshalls would have great fun clearing that lot out of the way before the roads could be closed! :wink: