(04-09-2015, 06:54 PM)Alfie Noakes Wrote: Sat there waiting for your rider's clock hand to clunk around in those days was exciting, the odd time it would move late, two places at once to catch up or not at all then then just as your thinking he's retired somewhere or worse the bloomin' light comes on or he's signed at Bungalow and then no light or a combination of all of the above, one pit person up on the metal steps looking up towards Governors with a stopwatch was the best bet.

That was all part of the excitment and tradition of the TT then Alfie. Do you remember when some teams used to comadere the red telephone boxes that were behind the grandstand for the whole of a race, a pocket full of coins and you could get information on your rider from a friend who had comadered a phone box in Ramsey, and perhaps elswhere. Messages were then shouted across to the riders pit.