What made it back then to me was the exotic machinery the riders , dont forget back then it still had world championship status , and it was the atmosphere , The spectacle of Douglas Prom full of bikes of every manufacturer three and four deep handlebar to handlebar all the way from one end to the other and down all the side streets , it was not the racing as such , the racing then as now is about the danger , man risking his all , its not nip and tuck duck and dive on every corner racing , and we no longer have the top world riders there  , so the one static element is the danger , and there are many of today's riders that tell you if you took away the danger there would be no point doing it ,

so what does that make us ?? a right gory bunch that go to watch people try and cheat death , god dont the cold facts of what we do make us look bad from some angles

so what keeps me going and being involved ??? its that bl--dy Fairy Dust I tell ya , it gets in the blood and it never goes away , mind I do go to the Capital of Fairy Land( Fairy Bridge ) every time before I come home and ask for a years supply to tide me over


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