TT legend Dave Molyneux and his wife and son made their Beach Buddies’ debut when they joined us this week for a clean-up of the Motor Isle Bar & Grill Billown circuit before the Pre-TT Classic races this weekend, in which Dave is racing his vintage Suzuki sidecar.
The record 17 times TT sidecar winner joined Beach Buddies for the annual clean-up around the Billown circuit before this weekend’s Pre-TT Classic race meeting. By sheer coincidence, Dave Molyneux’s son had already taken part in a beach cleaning event earlier in the day on Ramsey beach with Sulby Primary School, so a big shout-out to ??? – and he said he really enjoyed both clean-up events.
It was the 15th year Beach Buddies has held this clean-up event in support of the Southern 100 and Pre-TT Classic. We are delighted to be associated with this wonderful team of people.
Our photograph also includes Ron Ronan who, together with his life-long friend David Wilkinson, came up with the original idea of a Pre-TT and Southern 100 clean-up 15 years ago. Ron has taken part in the clean-up every year since, plus an identical pre-event clean-up every year in support of the Southern 100 races.
We had 11 volunteers at the Southern 100 course last night and they collected an impressive amount of rubbish, estimated at 100kg, plus one item – found by Dave Molyneux – which on its own weighed in at around 30kg. It was the broken remains of an electric cable pylon.
A massive thankyou to everyone who helped last night, which included five new faces who all looked like they had enjoyed themselves, despite not very pleasant weather conditions. We hope to see you again.
And the very best wishes from everyone at Beach Buddies to Dave Molyneux in the racing this weekend.
