Peter Hickman has branded last year's Isle of Man TT “a ꦐlittle blip” but doesn’t reflect on it too negatively given the results he was still abl🐬e to achieve.

The Englishꦺ rider emerged in 2018 as one of the main referen♛ce riders at the TT when he tallied up his first wins and set an all-time lap record.

When the TT returne🐽d in 2022 following a two-year pause due to COVID, Hickman won four races in a week and followed that up with another quartet of victories in 2023 - where he also set a new outright lap record of 136.358mph, which still stands.

Last year’s TT proved more difficult, with Hickman only scoring one win in a ♉dramatic Su꧒perbike TT that saw Michael Dunlop and Davey Todd hit by problems.

His win dꦗrew him equal with Mike Hailwood’s record of 14, while Hickman registered a handful of otheᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚr podiums during TT race week last year.

Peter Hickman 'was beat up' at '24 Isle of Man TT

“It waꦇs not the sort TT that I was🌌 looking forward to,” he said during the TT Live podcast recording.

“But, and I’ve said this in recent interviews too, that I had four unbelievable years that were probably more than anyone would ever expect - inclu🐟ding myself.

💮“Particularly in 2022 and 2023 when I won four in a week in both of those years back-to-back, which is pretty phenomenal in itself.

“I was probably due a bit of a mediocre year♎ by my standards and something ꦐnot to go right.

“I’ve had a lot of luck in the last few years, things have gone my way, not always💧 but a lot of the time ꦇthey have.

🌄“When I’ve had some bad luck I’ve managed to get some good luck somewhere else and it’s equalled itself out.

“So, I think 20♋24 was obviously the little blip for me.

“And if a blip is a win, three second places and a walk off into Ginger Hall pub for a couple of pints after sliding down the r🎐oad, I think I’ll take that.”

Hickman’s week🤪 ended with a crash in🦄 the Senior TT while battling hard with Davey Todd for victory, though he admits he didn’t even suffer “one bruise” in the fall.

“I was having a good dig at it and between the end of the first lap and the end of sector two, I’d managed to pull quite a few seconds on Davey,” he explained🦄.

“We pulled it to eight seconds, so six seconds in two sectors 🌄is quite a good margin particularly how we’ve all been racing ourselves rece♔ntly - half a second is a big margin in some places.

“ꦛSo, to get six in a couple of sectors was quite a big chunk.

“And I’d taken quite a lot of risk to do that, I’d really pulled the stops out in a few places and was really taking a bit of risk t🔯o try anℱd break Davey.

“I go🎶t to a point, go my pitboard and it said plus eight.

“And I thought ‘right, I took a load of risk to get here and make that little break, l🦩et’s 𝐆just chill out’.

“And this is what a lot of people struggle to get their head around: the reason💜 I fell off is because I 🎃backed off so much.

“I❀ didn’t load the front tyre hard enough, particularly on the Dunlop tyres I’m a real✱ly big fan of.

“The front tyre wants pushing all the time. If you don’t push it, it doesn’t wo🌄rk.

“Basically I didn’t grab e๊ꦬnough brake and push hard enough into the left.

“And it’s a really horrible corner, Ginger 🐓Hall. It’s off-camber, it’s really bumpy.

“If you see it from the outside, I’ve actually tucked the front wa🦩y earlier than I touched the floor and that’s just because I’ve not loaded it, I’ve lost the grip and I’ve already gone before I get to the corner. I hung onto for as long as I could.

“I was a bit beaten up going into TT 2024.

“I’d crashed three times at Oulton Park - one or two of which was definitely not my fault. I came away from that crash there with not even one br🌌uise.”