This is going to shock a few of you. I totally agree with what the course licence is trying to achieve. I fully believe that there should be some level of competence achieved before getting accepted for the TT AND that this level should be maintained if you wish to compete in the TT.

Maybe the way that they have gone about it is wrong, maybe all of us can agree with that, but I am also sure that everyone would believe that if someone races week in and week out or when ever they are able to, then they would be more capable of keeping up with the pace of the riders, than someone else who hardly races at all year to year and still gets a TT ride.

I think the idea mentioned about the current licence having points scoring to maintain levels of compitency and different events having different scores, based on the course and also the level of competition, is a great idea. This maybe a better idea than the TT course licence but also it should help overseas riders prove themselves before they go through the exspence of getting here and the officals having to exclude them because they are not up to scratch. I also believe that this will help riders keep a track of what they need to do and organisers having clear information about a riders capabilities and make the entrance process less complicated.

As for appearance money, I believe this is standard all over the place, maybe how it is spread around may need looking into but I am not that knowlagable on this subject or how it works, but do believe that the so called little guys should also get a huge slice, all are heroes to me not just the top few.