larryd Wrote:

John Foster Wrote:In fact Bill Snelling and Larry should get cracking on it straight away.

Not me John.

This started as a thread relating to the nostalgia of the Parade Lap as once was and as might be again.

I've been very disappointed by the attitude of some contributors, esp. you Dave C - to me, the nostalgia of a Parade Lap is indivisible from the Mountain Circuit.

Up and down the Mooragh Prom in Ramsey does absolutely nothing for me.

Sorry!!

I am sorry you are disapointed in what I have said Larry. I know how much you love the old bikes and I do appreciate them just as much. But there are major problems with the parade lap. Maybe these can be ironed out and maybe it can return to be a major part of the TT, I do hope that this can happen. What I think we are trying to say is that the history of the TT deserves a heck of a lot more than just a parade lap.

You know how much I love your old BM and I am always down there trying to help out as much as I can. But I can see a problem with the parade. This doesn't take away from my love for the old bikes, the Castrol R and the roar that used to greet me as a kid on the wall of Braddan Bridge and up on the Mountain.

Don't forget the past is not just the past, it is what makes you who you actually are, and the old bikes are what is to blame for me racing. That together with a bet in the pub that I would be scared of being a passenger . So you see I do think that they deserve their place, but the parade is, unfortunately I believe a thing of the past. Yet another thing to be talked about over a pint.

I am sorry if I have upset you Larry this is not my intention and never was. Lets just not loose the history just because we lost the parade.