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OLD SCHOOL.

“THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN FULLY UNDERSTAND THE TT IS TO ACTUALLY GO THERE”

MIKE HAILWOOD’S unexpected Isle of Man TT win in the 1978 Formula One race shook up the motorcycle world, with news spreading as far as the little wooden miner’s cottage I was fixing up in northern Victoria.

Suddenly the TT became a bucket list item, but continuing property renovation and the arrival of

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