TT 2016: Bruce Anstey’s big old beard has gone!

After his spill last night in Practice for the upcoming Isle of Man TT 2016 Race Week event, flying Kiwi Bruce Anstey has decided to ditch the monster beard he’s been sporting and is now going clean-ish shaven for the race action on The Island.

There’s no getting away from the fact that we’ve all got so used to Bruce being on the beardie trail that this now looks weird, but the beard has gone.

This was taken a short while ago, you can still see the plaster on his left forearm, left over from his brief stay in hospital yesterday when he fell off his Padgett’s Fireblade during Practice yesterday evening.

So here’s Anstey now:

And Anstey last night:

Which do you prefer? We quite like the beard…