only to those who will not see, my son!!!

pykey you asked what year the lap by shandy was done, did you not?
read the bit where they are going over the mountain and are being chased by bikes from there to the creg. when shandy asked if any of the bikes had ever caught him, the driver says "1986"
now go to the next paragraph and shandy goes on about the disgrace of being passed by a bike 8 years earlier, blah blah, blah.
add 8 years onto 1986 and you get 1994, which is when the lap must have been. follow me now?
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