Great day topped off by meeting 2013 Classic TT 500cc winner Ollie Lindsell. He will be on the Royal Enfield this year with Ian Lougher riding the Paton as a swap over from last year. Ollie is going for a 109mph lap as fastest single cylinder, he has already done 106mph and reckons 110 can be done! From another source I finally found out why the rider I had to black flag last year was black flagged and why he took so long to stop. It turns out that he was being pulled over for a broken clutch lever which he had fixed in the pits so he did not want to stop. In fact he was 40 mph slower in a straight line than anyone else and thus a hazard. The reason was that he had blown his race engine but had fitted a standard road bike engine in its place. When the other riders blasted past him they were so much quicker he thought they were the top bikes whereas he was just dog slow and didn't realise it. He was black flagged all the way from the 13th milestone until the Sulby straight where a marshal stood out in the road with the black flag to finally stop him!
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