Early morning practice, loved every minute of it and had a strict ritual, no washing just dab the yes with a damp flannel keep the grease in the skin, pair women's tights and ex RAF pure silk inner gloves packet of Park Drive and a box of Swan Vestas taped to the bike to keep you going if you stopped on the mountain, always rode my Aemacchi along the front to the start to warm it up same a lot of others ands MV did from the Douglas bay, and the TT Supporters club tea tent was the purpose of going out in the first place.

No big money t=when I started and the bikes and riders did not look like Christmas trees,no stickers were allowed on the bikes everything except the bikers makers name everything eels was prohibited.

Glad I raced in the 60s/70s and early 80s when we raced for the love of the sport