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Thanks for all the info to date. I hear he was also known as the king of crashes, breaking many bones during his long riding career!

I will try the Old Time Speedway Group for more info!

Phil Bishop was a very long serving member of the Speedway community from rider through to Manager and subsequent death in Belgium on a speedway trip as Manager of the WestHam speedway Team. Can anyone fill me in on essential information, which teams he rode for, any other information?

Barry Thomas has moved back to Kent, close by the Sittingbourne track. He is building a bike for fun. Will he have another skid around Iwade the track he used to run with brother Ivor?

Sounds like an excellent day out! Unfortunately I,m on the other side of the World, hope it goes really well!

Before I left England for the Colonies ie in the early 90,s I watched both Alan Sage and Malcolm simmons riding at a trials meeting in Kent. They were both excellent to watch and showed they still had great balance!!!!

Lance King is contactable but never answers polite emails! Ex pat speedway riders living in Perth say he will never answer as he thinks he is above every one else in the food chain! You are no doubt aware that all these riders are on Facebook, Lance I think lives in Arizona, both Morans are now contactable. Dennis Sigalos does answer emails as does Ron Preston, both could feature, and both are gentlemen!

Thanks Jim!

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on Hradrecky. I remember meeting Mike Lohmann at Iwade speedway when his son was practising as a junior. Mike showed me his arm injury which marked the end of his career. He was also praising Gordon Kennett as the best inside line rider ever!!

Re the Red Star Team from the 80,s can anyone give me any info on Ladislav Hradecky???

I am a little biased perhaps as I was a travel guide in Croatia for Enterprise holidays, and met my Croatian wife in Zagreb!!!

The Teeside Andy Buck may be the same one who went on later to ride for Peterborough from 1979, he would have been a very young reserve at Teeside!The Andy Buck who joined the Police Force rode also at Scunthorpe for one season in 1985 after leaving Eastbourne!! So must be the tall balding Andy Buck, same one?

We have heard of speedway riders who went to jail! What about those who became policemen after they retired from the Sport. The one I,m thinking of is the tall gangly underrated but highly skilled National League rider for Eastborne and others..... Andy Buck, who is now a police dog handler in the North East of England. Any others out there?

I was pleased to see such interest still in the Red Star team, and this forum always gives me new information and feedback from you budding speedway historians out there!! Some people posting in years gone by, obviously do a lot of research to help the rest of us. What would we do without British Speedway Forum!

It has already been plus 40c here in Perth Australia this January and will be plus 42 c on next Saturday. I can not imagine -40 only dream about the possibility of seeing ice speedway in Europe one day!!!!