Reporter Tom Curphey speaks to Manx rider Mikey Evans about growing up with the Isle of Man TT on his door step and problems with his Superstock bike in the first practice session of TT 2024
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00:00So Mikey, it's a bit different for you isn't it this because obviously loads of people called
00:04over to the Isle of Man and they're saying how great it is. You've obviously grown up here,
00:07what's it like for you as a manksman to ride the CT goods? Yeah no it's really exciting,
00:11like obviously I've done it all my life and stuff so I've seen it, seen it from you know every stage
00:16of my life and then now to actually be doing it it's something very special for me. Is it
00:20something you've always wanted to do, you know you've obviously watched it as a kid? Yeah yeah
00:24I used to live on Bray Hill when I was a kid and stuff so that was kind of, I think that's where
00:28I got the bug because it was like early morning practice and watching the bikes fly past that's
00:32kind of where I got the bug and stuff and yeah I think from seeing the first bike through I kind
00:36of knew I wanted to do it. How did it go yesterday, obviously the first race, talk us through how it
00:41went so far, I know it's just the first day. Yeah yeah no first day it started off all right yeah
00:46we just tried to get laps in because obviously around here you can't really practice for this
00:49so it takes a bit of time for your mind and everything to get up to speed but we were okay,
00:54had a problem with my super stock bike, blew an engine up so unfortunately we had to get another
00:59one, had to source another one from Ireland so that's kind of a bit of a blow, I'm not going to
01:02get that till Thursday, I'm not going to get out till Thursday night so that's kind of a progress
01:07a bit, still need to qualify that but yeah it's part of it and we've got all the bikes to ride.
01:12And how looking forward to, I know this is qualifying, it's great this week but what's
01:16race week like? I know around here there's a different type of buzz in the Isle of Man,
01:19more people come, what's it like for you race week? Yeah no it's amazing I mean obviously
01:23practice week is more busy than what it is normally but then race week you know even more
01:26people come and stuff and then that's when you really start to kind of focus on what you do,
01:31in fact it's really important but it kind of doesn't really, it's just about you getting
01:35used to the bike and getting up to speed, it's the races that count really.