There will be a special parade lap at this year's TT. Between the Junior and Senior TT races on Friday, June 7, 15-time World Champion Giacomo Agostini (a.k.a. "the World's most successful racer") and 7-time IOM TT winner Mick Grant (now manager of British Superbike Racing's Motopower team) will circulate the track in a two-person parade. Agostini will ride a 1967 MV Agusta 500 "triple" and Grant will ride "Slippery Sam" the Triumph Trident Production Racer which has won 5 TT's itself under numerous riders.

 

Giacomo Agostini, 1967 MV Agusta 500/3

Entrant: Team Obsolete

This is the machine that Ago rode in his epic battle with Hailwood at the 1967 Senior TT. The two champions circulated nose to tail until Ago lost his chain on the last lap.

 

Giacomo Agostini on the MV Agusta "Marlboro" 500/4 cyl., one of the last 4 strokes to win a GP until this year!

Agostini will ride in a special parade at this year's IOM TT

8-time World Champion Phil Read gets the wheel up on the 1967 MV Agusta 500 "triple" last year at Cadwell Park's Beezumph Rallye 2001.

This bike will be ridden by Agostini in a special parade at this year's IOM TT.

 

 

Mick Grant, 1970-75 Triumph "Slippery Sam"

Entrant: National Motorcycle Museum (U.K)

The one and only "Slippery Sam" Triumph Production Racer, a five-time TT winner in its own right.

Seven-time TT winner Mick Grant (left) with Roy Richards, whose National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull, UK is the current owner of "Slippery Sam." Grant and "Sam" will circulate in a special parade with Agostini at this year's IOM TT.