Tony Jeffries makes an important point about silenced machines. probably one of the nearest misses I ever had in the T.T. was ridng the Crooks Suzuki Production T500 which was enough to win me silvers in the 71 or 72 Senior.

I went through the Lights at St Ninians to find a police man who had not heard me coming strolling across Bray Hill, he froze in terror and I missed him by inches, admitted he probably thought nothing was coming because most machines apart from the were open mega M.V G50s or Manx's and unsilenced 350 Yamahas that you could hear a mile away.

At least in those days if marshalls heard the motor on an out of sight approaching or departing machines stop suddenly be it through a blow up or incident it would attract their attention and put them on their guard.