Hi All,

Back again for another lash at the TT with the trusty sidecar. Thought I might throw up a thread that’s a bit more organised this year after last years last minute blind panic to go.:woots: Maybe this one won’t have the dramas of last years but hopefully it will keep you entertained.

This year due to work commitments unfortunately Pa of Pa Gill Racing fame couldn’t do the TT at the start of the year and Terry "The Hair" O’ Reilly was looking a passenger to go over for his 1st visit. So from doing a season with Terry a couple of years before on the F1 outfit and Terry actually doing spanners for us for the last two years it was a no brainer.:thumbsup2:

So we are all registered and ready to go. Lucky No:66::devil: A really big entry this year with 70 entries in the sidecar list but I’s say maybe 60 to make it as there is a severe lack of passengers. I wonder why:rolleyes2:

Terry was over in January with the lads doing the obligatory laps all weekend and we were over in March again for more laps compliments of the Isle of Man government.:thumbsup2: Normally as a newcomer they do a weekend when everyone goes over an meets up with bus rides around the course with some top lads, now that’s scrapped and they try and pair you up with some local boys for the weekend. It’s actually a good system. We got off the plane with a lady holding up a sign with our name on it for a hire car. Makes a change from customs giving you dirty looks. Then put up in 2 double rooms on the sea front (all that was missing was the ice cream).:biggrin_old:
That poor little Fiesta got to experience a lot of laps that weekend mainly with Terry driving through the night with no traffic and the lights on the dims to see could he remember the corners.:woots:

I got teamed up with Lee Cain he who is made famous in the youtude sidecar clip:

We had another guy from Norway who’s competing this year for the 1st time. Lee who’s mad at the best of times was doing his best to give him tips around the course while also pointing out all the places where they had crashed, gone on fire, hit kerbs etc. Poor bloke I don’t think knew what to make of him.:biggrin_old:

Meanwhile Terry was getting a lesson with Lee’s Driver Karl Bennett who was giving him pointers around the track. All went well and I think we both got something out of the whole weekend.:thumbsup2:

The paper work is all through at the moment bar the mountain licence which I found an email in the spam folder yesterday telling me I needed one more time sheet by Monday morning to be approved.:wassat: Bit of a panic but myLaps.com is a great system and we had the races done so no issues.

Just so you know:

Anyway apart from the mountain licence from the ACU (£25), you need:

1: International FIM licence (£30)
2: Start Permission (Free:smileee:)
3: Insurance for the TT from the MCUI (€153)

All sorted anyway I hope.

So the bike is ready all spayed up thanks to Philip McNally

Engines ready and sorted we hope thanks to Wogan performance tuning

So fingers crossed we get a good run at it. The ferry leaves Wednesday morning, we have to go a bit earlier as Terry is a newcomer and there are extra laps provided.

As you can imagine all this costs a good few quid especially on Terry as he’s doing it for the first time and there is a lot of kit to have on hand and Sterling is brutal at the moment so if anyone want’s to throw some sponsorship our way we will gladly take your hand and all off as we have no big sponsorship at all really. There is space on the bodywork for anyone who wants to get a name or company on it and we are the only Irish outfit going over this year so hopefully we will make it into a good few photos. Also if anyone wants to sponsor us privately I will try and get a good photo from the island and send it to people for a few quid.

I have a PayPal account if anyone wants to pm me. That’s the begging bit over:bag:

Hopefully keep you updated as the time goes on.

Terry has a F A C E B O O K page setup as well so hopefully keep that up to date in real time. It’s

if you search for it.

That’s it for now, I can’t wait after 8 months of build up.:hyper:

Aidan:thumbsup2: