(24-12-2011, 04:01 PM)ian huntly Wrote: Good to read your comments Veefour......

Both of us clearly recommend a day trip if a person can't do the full TT period...

The early round-the- course coach trip I missed because I went to my hotel once I was off the ferry....

However, if people didn't have the facility of a kind hotel, going on the bus trip warmed them up after a night lying on the seats or on the deck in all weathers ....and some could kip some of the way/....

You are right to say "Motor Cycle" as the early organisers but a few years ago I did a Trip which I wrote up minute by minute for a magazine...MCN were the ones who set up that particular trip..

It was a BSA apprentices trip to the 1958 senior TT that started my life long association with the IOM TT, fifty three years. An overnight journey by coach from the BSA factory, and ferry from Liverpool to Douglas, a couple of hours sleep in a shop doorway, and then breakfast at what I remember to be the Peveril cafe. A long walk along the Peel Rd via Governors Bridge to a spot between Snugborough and Union Mills. For the last 30 odd years I have stayed with friends in their house on the approach to Union Mills, and from my bedroom I can see the exact spot where I spent that memroable day in 1958, it is now a prohibited area.
I can remember that John Surtees won the Senior race on a Bright red Italian MV Agusta, I have never forgoten the sound of that bike as it raced past me. Since that day . Over the years I have been mixed up proffesionaly with the TT, having been part of the team that looked after the BSA marshalls bikes, part of the Sports motorcycle/Ducati team during Mike Hailwoods return in 1978/9, and race engineer for Tony Rutters Ducati career. I rode in Two ISDT's, and trials and scrambles events. Since 1981 we have ran the TT race Mission. I am trying to make my mind up weather to go to the TT next year. Over the last five or six years the TT in my opinion has changed from being a "unique" event, something that I have always considered to be one of the greatest sporting spectacles in the world into just another race meeting with no character or personality. However I an so glad that I managed to save up the £10.00 to go on that trip in 1958.