The Tourism Minister is admitting visiting figures for TT 2008 are down on last year.
However, Adrian Earnshaw (pictured) believes there are more bikers on the Isle of Man than there were in 2006.
Last year tens of thousands came over for the centenary celebrations, making it one of the busiest events for some time.
Mr Earnshaw says it was always going to be difficult to live up to the hype of last year:
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