Some very interesting and valid points being raised here, the 1st point is that after a TT the riders who have not reached the deemed qualifying speed or were close should be informed that it is perhaps unlikely that they will get an entry for the next TT, the rider then has the choice wether to risk spending huge amounts of money preparing for the next TT.
One post suggested a seperate race or prep race for the 'slower' riders to get used to the pace etc, isn't that what the Manx GP is for?
Also a couple of posts have said and rightly so to a point, that it is easier and safer to pass a rider who is much slower but on the right line than a fast rider who is a tad slower than yourself but all over the place, ok, but what makes us think that these riders in question on are the right line just because they are slow? It is more likely that THEY are the riders way off line that is why their times are not so quick cos they're s***in themselves? Possibly?
Race organisers have in the recent past also been heavily critised for allowing some of these slower guys into the TT because of their times and then other quicker riders were not accepted, now the organisers are stopping these slower riders coming, thye are being critised too? They cannot win. Lets remember in their defence, which is not something I'm known for, it is only at the latter stages of the build up to TT 2008 that we've even knwon who was running it.

One of the riders in question would also find his times dropped considerably if he spent more time learning how to ride the TT course properly instead of wheelying round most of it.
Lets hope some of the comments that have been made in this thread are perhaps used next time to at least help the riders who have, rightly or not, spent alot of time preparing for this years TT only to be told they ain't in.
Cheers
Russ