cregnybaa Wrote:As i have said before ok if you have a spare 10/15 grand to buy and prepare a proper formula 1 bike but most mpg riders don't have that kind of money so some of them will be off down to their local breakers to buy an old road going gs1000etc complete with the rotting frame from the inside and that spells disaster at the bottom of bray hill so it comes back to people with money buying proper bikes then paying tt riders to ride them and they will be paid regardless of what they say they are professionals they are not going to spend 2 weeks at the manx for nothing if they did the tt organizers would have a lever not to pay them.

I agree, and I think it's a shame the organisers haven't adopted their own rules for entering TT riders. It always used to be the case that TT riders were excluded from the Manx because if they were good enough to ride in the TT they had no place in a clubman event. The classics were only excepted because there was a minimal flow of 'new blood' coming in. Result - professional TT stars coming in for a bit of extra practice with big money sponsors, picking up all the awards and leaving the little guys to pay all their own costs with little hope of any recognition. Now that ex TT riders are quite rightly allowed back after a set layoff (implying they have genuinely retired from the TT) the same eligibility rules should be applied to the Classic MGP to stop the pot-hunters who are not in the spirit of the event.