Being from N Ireland and being interested in bikes since me dad used to pack me brother and me into the side car and me mam on the back of his Ariel Square 4. Nearly every weekend during the summer months there was a road race somewhere in Ireland. I loved it but my brother hated it.
For all that I have never been to a TT. I think it is a rip off, but it is on my bucket list. Up until two years ago I still travelled up from Spain on the bike, for either the Cookstown 100, NW200 or the Ulster Grand Prix. The Ulster is by far and above the best road race in the world.
My brother became an accountant , right boring fart, he always was on at me to get a proper job and stop running away to sea, well I run away for 43 years and still ride motor bikes, he is a lay preacher in the Episcopalian church in Scotland, he's a fecking riot.
Don't know why I mentioned this lol