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When acting as tour guide to a first time TT spectator it’s important to make the right first impression. You need to take them somewhere on the course that’s really, really fast and where the bikes pass so close that you can feel the displaced air sucking at you as they howl past. Back in 2017 I took my BMW riding brother and his wife along to Gorse Lea, just before Ballacraine, for their introductory viewing experience. Here you have to clamber, while balancing cups of tea and home made cakes from Harold Leece’s farmhouse kitchen, onto a wall beside the track to watch the action. Then you sit and wait, listening to the radio, for the (inevitably) delayed start of the race. About three minutes after the start (which is over…