Spare a thought for...

… Peter Archer, first section, first day broke his Beezer’s throttle cable and pushed back to the start to fix it.

…Tony Calvert, who’s Cub stopped dead on Mamore, pushed back to Kinlochleven, diagnosed a loose stator and had two hours to make up.

…Tim Hartshorne, clipped a rock and wiped the bottom of his AJS’S timing chest off, moved the timing and had to ride all day without inspecting sections.

…Lee Granby, who rode all of Friday with only third and fourth gears available to him on his Norton and then all of Saturday with only second gear.