(12-06-2015, 07:57 PM)Westers Wrote: Yep, post TT downer, and also not there.

Another great year, and one that seemed to have more drama than the others. First it was MD switching rides (proven right), followed by the weather.

Bruce's stunning superbike win, surely one of the most popular of the week.

We saw the stunning return of Hutchy, and watched him go from strength to to strength, yet JM seemed to be a busted flush. Oh how we were wrong.

The slideys had some of the closest racing that I can remember for a while, and the Birchalls possibly showed the future of slidey TT domination.

Ivan Lintin wrestling the Supertwin crown away from Ryan - who'd have thought Ryan would be beaten.

The rise of the new breed - Hillier, Johnston, and waiting in the wings, Hickman.

And then the finale - I need say no more.

How can TT 2016 better that performance?

yes,  agree with all that, heart warming performances from them all. Big feeling of let down now,  BOOHOO!
Even tho' I  wasn't there, the commentary and live timing made it feel as if I was!  Just let the imagination work, and I'm on a sunny bank on the run to Ballaugh, ( are people still allowed to sit there?),  or on the churchyard wall at Union Mills, or even at the bogs in Kirkmichael( very convenient,pardon the pun, are THEY still there?)
 I once sat on the bank at Appledene, glorious spot in the sunshine; Tony Rutter and the F2 Ducati were so smooth - I wanted to pay my respects to a nearly forgotten rider who didn't live to fulfil his potential, Fred Neville, killed in appalling weather during the Junior MGP of 1961.