billybikespeedway
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- Birthday 05/16/1951
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whatever happend to Roman Povashney sorry about the spelling,
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included should be Yanto Harrysson and Dai Nordin lol
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Sweden Their Greatest Five Ever ?
billybikespeedway replied to Sidney the robin's topic in Years Gone By
My top and Totally Biased 1 Ove Fundin 2Olle Nygren, 3 Gote Nordin 4 Tony Rickardsson 5 Toby Harrysson -
Your Memories Of Polish Riders In British League
billybikespeedway replied to TonyMac's topic in Years Gone By
my first glimpse of Polish riders was a test match at Newport, when on the parade lap, without Helmets Edmund Migos decided on a couple of practice laps ,picked up some grip reared up headed straight towards the fence rode up the fence like the wall of death and carried on as if nothing had happend, I thought then this could be an interesting evening ,and it was -
Which One Rider Would You Have Liked To Have Seen But Haven't?
billybikespeedway replied to steve roberts's topic in Years Gone By
Has to be Peter Craven and then Bjorn Knutsson -
The Riders Who Never Took Your Imagination Over The Years.?
billybikespeedway replied to Sidney the robin's topic in Years Gone By
For Me its Peter Collins didn't Try at Somerton Park ,When he he could be bothered to turn up , so many times broke down on route,I know it was not the best track ,but other riders came with the attitude "its there to be ridden so lets get on with it " -
Fans Faves And Not So Faves!
billybikespeedway replied to keef robin's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
Back in the day at Newport Frank Smart was ready to chat even when you met him in town he would always stop and chat ,was a great ambassador for speedway, even with the ban -
I remember Ray riding at Newport for Long Eaton, and seeing pics of him in 64 when he was with West Ham I often Wondered about the attachments he had on his handlebars,I seem to think they were some sort of shock absorber ?
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English Riders British And World Final Records.
billybikespeedway replied to Sidney the robin's topic in Years Gone By
never a threat but Ron How had 8 world Finals, and was a great league rider -
Hi Clicked on the link ,went to my favorite year 1966 Newport and my favorite rider Gote Nordin only to find they have him riding for Poole ,and Toby Harrysson for Newport who didn't join Newport until 1967
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Hi all 1965 Russia test match crowd reported a Somerton Park capacity of 25,000, Plechanov and Kurilenko Both Broke the track record Class riders
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and Quite the opposite for Ivor Brown Cradley Heath, who Clashed with Ove Fundin and got badly injured, Charlie on fire Rode at Exeter that bank Holiday monday, Packed up his kit after his last race and drove to london
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I think I must have been Dreaming or in a parallel world cos Briggs and monk never rode a golden helmet race at Newport ( old age don't come on its own )
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Does anyone know if there are any recordings of the internationale held on bank Holiday monday it was featured on the BBC on the Thursday following commentator i think was Alan Weeks,
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Hi BOBATH nothing wrong with Somerton park ,but Wimbledon was just Plush , I used to stand Cromwell road end Exiting the Turn Tiered terracing, bars to lean on ,was you there when the Russians came in 65( Sardines or what )