I'd like to start this by thanking Malcolm for the hard, time consuming work you have put in over the last 10? years with ttwebsite.

For those of you that have never been involved in running a website I can tell you that it is VERY time consuming. I used to run one and that didn't take a fraction of the effort that a site like ttwebsite does, but even then I'd find myself spending a minimum of 2 hours most days just doing stuff with it.

This site has, as Malcolm said, been run at HIS own expense for others to enjoy, I would even go as far as saying that this site was the pioneer road racing site, the first real one, the standard for others to follow and copy from?

This site is I think mainly used by people 'within the sport' as opposed to iomtt.com which is the MCN of racing websites, full of donut, burn out , knee down billys who really have no idea what it takes to race a bike, prepare a bike or run a website.

There have always been the kind of anonymous posters on all sites that post purely to wind people up and be rude. Most of the time they are pointed out and ignored but occasionally we get sucked in and once sucked in its hard to get out!! ;-)

Lets carry on as the 'club' we are called and enjoy it, not always agreeing but at least being constructive with our posts.

Long live ttwebsite, its regular, constructive posters/members and Malcolm!!

Russ Henley