The 1922 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy introduced a new race, within a race, for 250 cc motorcycles called the Lightweight TT, to be run concurrently with the already-established Junior 350 cc that took...

The 1921 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Junior 350 cc race took place on Tuesday 14 June and the Senior 500 cc was on Thursday 16 June. In this year AJS redeemed themselves by completing a hat trick, tak...

The ACU had insisted on a minimum of 30 entries for each race before agreeing to a resumption of the TT in 1920, and decided to introduce a new Lightweight class for 250 cc machines, which would be in...

The 1914 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was the last held before the outbreak of the First World War and remembered as the event in which the big thumping singles fought back in their constant battle with...

The TT had survived its first crisis, and any doubts about the future were firmly dispelled a year later when 147 riders entered the 1913 event....

The 1912 Isle of Man TT races were again held over the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course. Several manufacturers complained that the new mountain course was too arduous and threatened to boycott the 1912...

1911 Indian TT Team - Moorhouse, Alexander, Franklin, De Rosier, Godfrey, W.H. Weels manager Indian London branch, and MRS. Wells....

The Indian v-twin shower here is an exact replica of the one ridden by Oliver Godfrey to win the Isle of Man TT in 1911, the first occasion that the 37¾-mile Mountain Circuit had been used. It was con...

The 1911 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races took place for the first time over the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course. The whole organisation of the races was given over to the Auto-Cycle Union (ACU), which...

The regulations changed once again for the 1910 race, which was held at the end of May....

If you’ve read through 1909 you’ll know what happened before and during the TT; here are some gems that appeared in the weeks following the big day. First past the post is this interview with Harry Co...

Just two years after the first TT, the regulations for the 1909 event, held in September once more, showed drastic changes to keep in line with the mood of the day. The ACU decided to introduce engin...

I already wrote about the 1908 race, but I found some interesting info, these were adventurous times. “THE MOTOR CYCLE TT RACE, 1908. To private owners: Now that you are considering the question of...

The second Isle of Man Tourist Trophy motorcycle race was held on September 22, 1908 alongside the RAC Tourist Trophy car race on September 24 at the St John's Short Course, Isle of Man. It was not on...

On a dry but cold day back in May 1907, twenty-five competitors gathered at Tynwald Hill for the first race in the ‘International Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy’...

The TT Races have a rich and tantalising history with early riding titans carving the way for modern day legends like Ian Hutchinson and John McGuinness. They are shaped by stories, lore and Yamahas....