This year's event of the largest bike race in the world just ended. Called the "Tourist Trophy", it has been held on the Isle of Man since 1907. For bikers, this is an interesting read. For some reason,the link loads page 2 first, so click on "previous page" to get to page 1.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/wo...nted=2&_r=1&sq