and a 13 time winner of a race known as the Isle of Man TT, short for both tourist trophy and time trial. Not long before we met Hickman, we watched him fly over the first jump on the course at a place known as Ago's Leap. ...
The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, the oldest motorcycle road racing event in the world, also remains one of the most controversial with a total of some 237 of competitors killed during its 104-year history. These fatalities are implicated within complex narratives of both remembrance and forgetting...
The construction of the Riders' Garden, well- meaning though its intensions may be, can easilybe misconstrued as an attempt by race officials to wrestle control of the dead from the bereaved;to regulate who and how they are 'The Island of Blood': death and commemorationR Moore...
Daily Mail (London)
Motorcycling: Jefferies tragedy rocks Isle of Man TT Archibald in race dilemma after death of team-mateJimmy Walker