Second vehicle left a bike race next to island, notes man? (9)
I believe the answer is:
scarlatti
'notes man?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'second vehicle left a bike race next to island' is the wordplay.
'second vehicle' becomes 'scar' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'left' becomes 'L' (common abbreviation).
'bike race' becomes 'tt' (short for time trial, type of race).
'next to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'island' becomes 'i'.
'scar'+'l'+'a'+'tt'+'i'='SCARLATTI'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scarlatti that I've seen before include "Alessandro and Domenico --, Italian composers" , "Domenico -, seventeenth to eighteenth century Italian composer" , "opera producer" , "Cantatas by him?" , "scorer" .)