What a great thread, many thanks laverda77. Three memories, initially, from me. The first memory was the first time - in 1962, this was a junior school holiday, we actually flew to the Island from Squires Gate, Blackpool on a Douglas DC3. We stayed at Port Erin in a holiday camp-type of place above the Port Erin Marine Laboratory.  One of the teachers must've been a TT fan as we were taken to spectate at Ballacraine for the Junior TT. The sound and the speed of it was a massive thrill, I'd certainly never experienced anything like it. My hero, Mike Hailwood, won that race and that was where my fascination with TT Course events was born. Moving on 51 years and I picked up my own - one and only - replica from the 2013 Senior Classic TT, hardly in the Hailwood class, but what a second memory!! That bronze statuette of Mercury holds pride of place in my living room. I felt it was a great honour plus an incredible blast to practice and race on the closed roads of the TT course. Dangerous? Sadly it is, but, for me, it really was worth the commitment, the cost and the inevitable heartache the events bring. My third memory and another bonus from my early TT Course events was morning practice. Setting off towards Bray Hill flat out with the sun was still rising, steaming through Union Mills, Crosby, Kirkmichael and Ramsey whilst most of the residents were still in bed was both a surreal and inspiring experience. We're all going to miss the TT, let's hope 'normal service is resumed' in 2021.