Hi Guys,
Hell of a first post this, hope I don't rant too much!
I hope to be entering a bike in the TTXGP next year, and am doing all in my power to produce an exciting, safe and hopefully winning entry.

The reason I am working hard to promote electric vehicles is, as Peter said above, petrol has had its day. The vast majority of wars and associated deaths in my lifetime have been all about the availability of oil, it should be painfully obvious by now that it is a dwindling resource and we should know better than fritter it away having fun driving vehicles that manage less than 25% efficiency. There IS a need to do this....in fact, it is possibly the most important improvement we could make to our vehicles. Peter is right, one day racing will be banned if we can't find a way to do it more efficiently/cleanly.
Any safety concerns will be addressed by the marshals/organisers, if the vehicles are not safe they wont race. I see little point in all of you declaring that the vehicles must be more dangerous than the petrol bikes currently used, especially since most of you know little or nothing about EV'S and have no experience to make these claims.
Whether or not the TTXGP will be exciting enough for you you can only wait and see...in short, the fact that so few seem willing to even give it a chance is precisely the reason why we have been stuck with stinky inefficient loud bikes for so long.
Whether or not the TT is the place to start, again only history will know, but one things for sure, if the TTXGP is derailed now it will harm electric motorsports for years to come, whether or not the time is right.
If the riders are ready to ride our machine, the TT is ready to host it, the marshals declare its safe (or as safe as racing under these conditions gets), and the vehicle producers want to make new competitive machines then whats the problem?

And sorry MV, which were the "good points" from Sticky's post? Apart from hinting that Azhar Hussain, who is just one of the many people organising the event, should be all powerfull and know ALL the answers, there wasn't really any "point" there, apart form him telling us how qualified he is to give his opinion.
I would urge anyone wishing to criticise the poeple commited to organising and bringing you this wonderfull TT event year after year to consider that perhaps they know what they are doing, and are in fact trying to give motoracing/TT a viable future as well as making new racing classes that will undoubtably in the future present many new and interesting vehicles to the racetrack.

Sorry to be so aggressive, just trying to provoke some real arguments or reasons why this event shouldn't go ahead. (i've heard nothing to make me think this is the case apart from the bad feelings and negativity I found on the TT forums, it sounds like you are saying "This is OUR TT, you go get your own!)
I have been in contact with MV, and hope he will take the time to come try an electric motorcycle and report back to you on just how it feels. I can tell you all that all of the 20+ motorcyclists who have tried one so far were all very impressed, and I for one will never go back to riding a petrol bike (yes, I was once a petrol head and raced proddie 2 strokes and snetterton/donnington/etc).
Anyone else wishing to come and check things out here near Brighton UK are more than welcome, and for those living in Ireland I can put you in touch with a chap just finishing a conversion who would be glad to meet (Dublin area) and show what they can do.
Now, off to look for a suitably disgusting recipe for "humble pie" to feed my good friend Sticky at the end of the race

Steve
http://www.jozzbikes.co.uk