With talk of the 130mph lap being broken this year, Onchan MHK and TT enthusiast Adrian Earnshaw has told Radio TT listeners a story relating to a slower, less complicated time.
During the 1980s, while watching the races near Peel, he spoke to a farmer who recalled the first TT, held on the old course, in 1907.
The man told him about an incident which definitely couldn't happen now:
(picture: The start of a race on the original TT course from www.mcb.net).
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