I got to the Manx OK. The weather was fine . The racing good. The clutch feeling great.
My mates immaculate 57 Trophy packed up after 10 miles with what we can only imagine was a shorted condenser in the mag.
We then went to the museum in Kirkmichael, ( he's now riding pillion on a Honda) and on to Ramsey for the sprint.
As the bike gets hotter I can feel the clutch starting to go.
We pull up in a petrol station and the bike snicks into neutral perfectly, fillup and I start the bike, pull in the clutch lever and put the bike into first.
Immediately it grabs with a graunching noise, drags the bike forward and stalls.
Start the bike again and it feels fine!
This happens again the next day so for a simple solution I squirt half a can of 3 in 1 bicycle oil into a vent hole in the top of the cover, so it is pouring out the bottom.
Problem solved. The clutch works perfectly even trapped in Douglas rushour traffic during' closed roads'.
The solution appears to be a new clutch cover , drill and tap a filler and drain plug and run the clutch wet.