I've only been to the Island once - for the 1984 TT. It's a unique event, unlike any other and I can understand the enthusiasm for it. I wanted to go back but a risk averse wife and family conspired to keep me away from bikes and the island.

I took my camera along. It was all new for me and I shot a lot of pictures, mainly of the racing, sometimes the spectators and their road bikes. And they've been gathering dust until recently. Hello lockdown, what do I do now? Time to go through all my old negatives, scanning them to digitise them and then cataloging them. It's a time consuming process but brings back a lot of memories.

I was a bit shocked how many negatives I had for the TT trip. But I wanted to catalogue them all so with help from some of the members here I've managed to identify most of them.

Rather than leave them sitting on a hard drive I thought it might be of interest to present them as a retrospective thread. You might recognise the bikes and riders, you might even recognise yourself or your bike if you were around then. Or maybe just enjoy looking back at the past. Either way, enjoy!

I'll post them in roughly chronological order, together with some of my ramblings in between. The pics may not always (ever?) be of the best quality, but what they lack in quality they make up for in quantity. There's quite a few of them!