A lege🌳nd of the Isle of Man TT has revealed that he broke his back.

Ben Birchall suffered the terrible injury last August while riding a bicycle through the 🍷Lake Diಞstrict.

Birchall is the lap record holder in the Sid𒅌ecar TT.

But he told the  abou♛t a devastating injury he sustained: ‘I was on a training ride whꦅen I came off the side of a mountain.

“I had to 🧔be airlifted to hospital by air ambulance as I’d broken my back in the fall.

“I broke all ba𒁃r three ribs in my back 𓃲so I had to have steel rods inserted.’

Ben and his brother Tom set the Sidecar TT lap record around 🔯the Mountain Course in 2023, registering 120.645 mph.

Only Daꦗve Molyneux (17) has more Sidecar TT wins than Ben Birchall’s 14.

Since his brother Tom stepped away🌌, Ben has tea꧃med with passenger Kevin Rousseau.

Tom was the𝓀 most successful Sidecar passenger in TT history w﷽ith 14 wins.

The Birchall brothers won every Sidecar TT that they finished since 2013,🌠 with only threeꦛ DNFs.

But a new era began in 2024 when Ben, the older brother at 48 years old, set out wit🐲h Rousseau as his new p🥂assenger.