He didn't look right coming down Bray Hill where the big change of direction on the descent unsettles some bikes, the bike's physics didn't look happy changing direction at all on some laps - was watching from the kerb cam garden, at QB even a couple of times he was a bit "arms n legs" - the footage at Ballaugh was hairy to say the very least as was backing too hard into into the Creg, also in the interviews he seemed down a little on quite a lot of things. My fairly good hands on/off racing experience over a few decades was telling me he had a bug up his **se about something he couldn't fix and was trying to make up for it elsewhere on the circuit and he didn't look like he was enjoying the whole thing which is critical, also without going into name dropping a top 10 rider who a couple of of our gang know well was telling us that there were delamination issues with a certain brand this year. Don't know whether there's any connection but Shoey's sad end of days at Sulby was down to a front tyre deflating.