Stevenage and District Motorcycle Club
Isle of Man TT
This is for all the articles and features about the Isle of Man TT, which club members have attended over the years.
Roger sent me these pictures of our illustrious president, Pat.
Roger said that: the tankard was presented for 50 TT's. Model of Laxey wheel made to scale by pat. Laxey is where club used to stay on island. Trophy in photo is original TT trophy taken at pat's presentation at centenary year.
Here is the Club Crowd During the TT Races.
Here is an Article from the Comet Newspaper of Thursday May 31st 2007
Our club president, Pat Barrett, plans to attend his 50th consecutive Isle of ManTT this centenary year ( 2007)
( yes - half a century in centenary year ).
 with
Phil Chambers 1960 |
Brighton speed trials sprint 60/61 |
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with Ian Ashwell ( killed at Brighton 14 sep 68 on solo Vincent ). |
with wife Hazel in Laxey at 2006. |
Well done to Pat for such a unique record and good luck to him on his forthcoming trip.
Isle of Man TT 2004
Once again the misses and me were off to the T.T.Races.
I wondered if I was getting to old for this.
After getting to Liverpool I knew that I was getting to old for it.
We boarded the ferry without managing to fall off a feat in its self that, and arrived in the early hours of Saturday morning really tired out. We spent all of Saturday just chilling out down the seafront in Douglas.
In the evening we went to meet Damien off the ferry and show him to his campsite.
On the Sunday we went to the start to see the David Jefferies run, we left early so we could show Damien round Ramsey.
We joined the tail end at Ramsey and I thought now Damien will be able to see the view from the mountain. Great. No chance. speed down to 5mph could not see a bloody hand in front of your face the mist was down.
So much for sightseeing.
Monday after the racing was over we met the other club members in the Railway Inn at Union Mills, the Purple Helmets dropped in while we were there, Pat was quite taken with their bikes he wished that his was as good. After Monday we lost sight of Damien, we heard later that he was held prisoner in Bushys for the rest of the week. The weather was good all week the racing brill.
Roll on next year.
Derek Gold
