samthesidecar Wrote:I also find it amazing that time can be found for separate pracice sessions for TTXGP, but not for pure bred racing bikes, which again are consigned to Billown.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on that point. It seems very strange to put it mildly.

Nobody has yet convinced me that this isn't either a very early or very late April Fool. It seems to me one of the most absurd ideas ever thought of regarding the TT - and after some of the things that have gone on in recent years, that's saying something!