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Manx money
I've got a couple of Manx £5 notes but they are not the latest plastic ones are they still legally tender on the island?
31-05-2022, 05:33 PM
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That's a good question! I've got a tenner left over from Manx GP 2019!
Also, I was the only taxi driver in the Morecambe & Heysham area that took Manx money!  Icon_cool
31-05-2022, 05:38 PM
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According to my source (i.e. the friends we stop with) they are still paper, so we're OK.
Then he said that their 18 month old seemed to have caught a bug!!!! panic set in 'til he messaged back to say "it's the TT bug"
I nearly had a heart attack!!  Confused Icon_biggrin
31-05-2022, 05:47 PM
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Thanks for that its a couple of pints waste not want not as they say.
31-05-2022, 09:55 PM
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Deffo OK Rich, we haven't gone placcy yet just as the Cap advises.
01-06-2022, 12:01 AM
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I always carried a Manx tenner in the lining of my helmet - just in case.
We retired on lap two of the Sidecar A race in 1993 and pulled in at The Hawthorn pub.
I nipped into the bar and bought two pints. The £8 change is in a plastic wallet that stayed in my leathers inside pocket for the rest of my racing career. It will never be spent.
01-06-2022, 09:04 AM
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Proper TT story that RTR
01-06-2022, 10:21 AM
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(01-06-2022, 10:21 AM)Chrisp955 Wrote: Proper TT story that RTR

Agreed, a nice little nugget that one.




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01-06-2022, 11:48 AM
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yes, great story & intriguing! 
Got me searching the database for 1993 DNFs, Sidecar A race!  Blush
01-06-2022, 01:19 PM
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Yes a lovely story it should go down in TT history if it had been me it wold have been £ 20 let's party!
01-06-2022, 02:40 PM
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Excellent little nugget there RTR
03-06-2022, 12:51 PM
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(01-06-2022, 01:19 PM)captainsparkledotcom Wrote: yes, great story & intriguing! 
Got me searching the database for 1993 DNFs, Sidecar A race!  Blush

Hint - I was driving a Molyneux Kawasaki. The first ever Moly chassis and the bike that Dave put on the rostrum the previous year.

PS. How do you insert photos into a reply?

Mart
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(04-06-2022, 09:00 AM)RTR Wrote: Hint - I was driving a Molyneux Kawasaki. The first ever Moly chassis and the bike that Dave put on the rostrum the previous year.

PS. How do you insert photos into a reply?

Mart

Got you now Sir, thought you were Rick Roberts. upload your image to Postimages.org, copy the second code then paste here by clicking on insert image approx centre of lower line of dashboard, paste code, then click done.

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Huge respect, solos too!
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(04-06-2022, 05:04 PM)milestone 11 Wrote: Got you now Sir, thought you were Rick Roberts. upload your image to Postimages.org, copy the second code then paste here by clicking on insert image approx centre of lower line of dashboard, paste code, then click done.

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Huge respect, solos too!

Thank you.
04-06-2022, 05:41 PM
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Watched from Sarah's cottage today and this was in the garden.
04-06-2022, 07:39 PM
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New to this up loading game sorry.
04-06-2022, 07:41 PM
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Nice little bit of history you only get in the iom. It sat in the hedge all them years.
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