Sam West had a bizarre star𒀰t to the Isle of Man TT - after he was accused of speeding by a policeman whi✨le riding a local person’s motorcycle.

West had no choice but to leaꦡve his BMW at Ba🐓llacrye when the chain snapped on Wednesday night during the TT session.

He borrowed another bike from🐲 a spectator, so he could return to the paddock and resume on his Supertwin machine.

But 🌟as he travelled back to Douglas he encountered a policeman carrying out speed checks near Jurby.

West e💜xplained the remarkable ordeal on social media.

“Well my run of bad TT luck continues,” he wrote.

“Ch👍ain snapped on the BMW a🎃t Ballacrye which is rare enough. I've never had a chain snap here before in any class but these things do happen.

“A very generous bloke lends me a Grom to ride back to the paddock so🥀 Iꦑ can get back out on the Supertwin.

“Whilst riding back in the middle of the ꧙countryside looking for the way to Ramsey ꧟I see a copper so head over to him for directions.

“Except he's holding a speed gun and app🌞arently that bit of deserted countryside is a 30 lim🌞it and I'm doing over 40!

“I never even thought about it💖, it was an empty country road somewhere near Jurby where most ro꧂ads are derestricted.

“So I have to explain to the🧜 polite but confused policeman why I'm speeding, on a borrowed bike, don't know the owners name, don't know the bike reg or age or model name (it's just a Grom??), I don't have license on me or phone to show any proof of insurance…

“After some explanation he gets ♍all my details and I'm allowed to head back t🦩o the paddock.

“Eventually I do get back to the paddock and leave the Grom at my awning, sprint back up to parc ferme with 2 minutes to spare only to find theღ session ended 5 minutes early... so just missed getting out on the Supertwin anyway.

“So with 2 days left of qualifying I haven't qualified any bikes an♌d have com🌄pleted just 2 timed laps. Hard work sometimes.

“Roll on tomor🌸row. ♋Hopefully the sun shines and we get some laps in.”

West was unable to head out on Tuesday when weather cancelled the TT sess🍸io💟n.

And, remarkably, his luck ꧟got even worse when Thursday’s session was also cancelled, this time due to a roಞad traffic accident.