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A year ago, Mark Gardiner quit his job, sold everything he owned and moved to the Isle of Man with two goals: to race in the TT, and to write a book that would answer the question, "Why race motorcycles?" What follows are excerpts from the journal he kept on the Island, which describe coming to terms with the mythical Mountain Course, and getting to know a place that is your spiritual home--whether you know it yet or not
Island Man Part One

A year ago, Mark Gardiner quit his job, sold everything he owned and moved to the Isle of Man with two goals: to race in the TT, and to write a book that would answer the question, "Why race motorcycles?" What follows are excerpts from the journal he kept on the Island, which describe coming to terms with the mythical Mountain Course, and getting to know a place that is your spiritual home--whether you know it yet or not  View Related Article