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What can I say but WELL DONE to the club, who I believe have really taken on board 99% of what was being asked for, and I think everyone who bothered to make their views known deserves a measure of congratulation as well, for helping shape an event better able to cope with the challenges of the future.

What Steve and others have said is valid, the eligibility criteria apply to all and if a bike is eligible it's eligible. Never mind 99% of the field couldn't afford it in several years of Sundays at double time! The welcome improvement in this respect is recalculation of replica time. The fast boys will be at liberty to set new lap records but by using the first non TT rider as the benchmark the clubmen will be encouraged as rewards willl no longer be an impossible dream.

From a personal perspective I welcome the extension of the Formula Classic capacity to 850cc as it will enable the 850 Nortons to better compete with the Tridents - as long as machines are only allowed to run to their production capacity limits!

Also personally, as I used a Minitwin last year and was disappointed by its lack of speed compared to the supertuned supertwins, it would have been nice to see the Minitwins allowed to run with the Lightweights. Minitwins are a great low-cost class and most English riders run to this not the Irish/Scottish supertwin regs. Maybe later?

All in all a good package of changes, blighted only by the ongoing costs of competing, from the ruinous charges of the Steam Racket to the pointless Course Licence. But I guess such things are not within the MMCC's ability to change so let me just thank them one more time and wish all of you who will be going "between the hedges" in 2011 a very successful new year