http://www.manxradio.com/readNEwsItem.aspx?id=24532

Good to see an old friend of the TT on the bottom of that page.
Trade and Industry Minister David Cretney.

I feel a reduction to 600 could be on the cards. Easier to handle, spares are (allegedly) cheaper with plenty of donor road bikes about.
Within a very few years they will be knocking on the door of a 130 lap