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:D hello tmc how about a book about the great anders michanek.the best swede ever.there would be plenty to write about.perhaps combine the book with the best janks ever bruce ,bobby,dennis,shaun,kelly and rick.and for good luck throw in a few good australians billy,gary,philp and jason.theres your next best seller.

p.s......loved the kenny carter book well done .

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Much rather read a book about Varg Olle :D Now i am sure he really has a few stories to tell.Was right there at the start of Swedish Speedway and is still involved in the sport today.Truly great rider/sportsman and one of the wildmen from Sweden

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:D hello tmc how about a book about the great anders michanek.the best swede ever.there would be plenty to write about.perhaps combine the book with the best janks ever bruce ,bobby,dennis,shaun,kelly and rick.and for good luck throw in a few good australians billy,gary,philp and jason.theres your next best seller.

p.s......loved the kenny carter book well done .

 

Think Ove Fudin and Tony Rickarsson would dispute the best Swede tag.

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Top Three Swedish riders (from the real days)

Ove Fundin .......... Olle Nygren ........ Rune Sormander

Next best

Per Olaf Soderman .......... Bjorn Knutsson ....... Soren Sjosten

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Top Three Swedish riders (from the real days)

Ove Fundin .......... Olle Nygren ........ Rune Sormander

Next best

Per Olaf Soderman .......... Bjorn Knutsson ....... Soren Sjosten

 

How can you class two riders who have never won a World title in front of one that has.

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and your forgetting about the likes of Toby Harryson and Gote Nordin

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How can you class two riders who have never won a World title in front of one that has.

Not that hard.I would say Gollob,Jancarz and Plech are all better than Jerzy S :)

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Well spin king the reason I can class two riders without a World Title above someone with one is the same as someone???? can class a once winner ahead of a five times winner.

In fact it is really only a matter of opinion after all.

I could have said Tommy Jansson or some of the others.

Rickhardson won some G P titles but I have not quoted him among my selections as his titles are "entry by invitation only"

I do not consider that the two systems should be ranked equal.

If Jack Young arrived in England today and signed for Edinburgh (in the 2nd division of Speedway) he would not get an invite to next years G P system. He did in the past and qualified to go into the final and win it

Also iris123 I agree Olle's is a story worth telling . His years spent in the Sport are unsurpassed and will remain so. One night at Harringay Olle put his shoulder "out", swung his arm round a couple of times, got back on the bike and carried on the meeting.

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Well spin king the reason I can class two riders without a World Title above someone with one is the same as someone???? can class a once winner ahead of a five times winner.

In fact it is really only a matter of opinion after all.

I could have said Tommy Jansson or some of the others.

Rickhardson won some G P titles but I have not quoted him among my selections as his titles are "entry by invitation only"

I do not consider that the two systems should be ranked equal.

If Jack Young arrived in England today and signed for Edinburgh (in the 2nd division of Speedway) he would not get an invite to next years G P system. He did in the past and qualified to go into the final and win it

Also iris123 I agree Olle's is a story worth telling . His years spent in the Sport are unsurpassed and will remain so. One night at Harringay Olle put his shoulder "out", swung his arm round a couple of times, got back on the bike and carried on the meeting.

 

Fair comment.

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Fair comment.

:blink: your all correct,but in my eyes anders was the best ever swede and a good bloke to boot.

talk about turning the clock back i can still remember standing on the forth bend at tilehurst watching the great man,i was only a little nipper but it was watching anders that got me thinking about riding a bike one day.

what a team to anders rode with,im sure it went like this but dont hold me to it

1.anders

2.bernie the bolt

3dag lovaas

4.dickie may

5.skippy curtis (one of the best ever ozzies i have ever seen and meet)R.I.P.

6.mike bell

7.mudgie

im not sure weather they all rode that year 1973 0r 1972 how the years pass because i can also remember watching a couple of wild lads to like josef angermuller,and jack millan.

one thing i can say with 100% is that in those days you followed a team,for good or bad,you would drive up and down the uk to watch your team and when you turned up all your team was present and ready to ride,whats happening in speedway today is just bulldust,guest riders ,stand ins,riders coming and going,

with out the english league those top fellows would be worth nothing perhaps they should treat the english league a lot better.and there would be far more bums on seats.thats 100% for sure

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Rickhardson won some G P titles but I have not quoted him among my selections as his titles are "entry by invitation only"

I do not consider that the two systems should be ranked equal.

 

Hi SG, just to say that Rickardsson won his first title in 1994, which is you'll no doubt recall was the last of the one-off World Finals.

 

My father told me about Peo Soderman (a lovely gentleman apparently) and Knutsson. Would have loved to have been around in the 60's to have watched these great riders on show.

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If Jack Young arrived in England today and signed for Edinburgh (in the 2nd division of Speedway) he would not get an invite to next years G P system. He did in the past and qualified to go into the final and win it

 

Absolutely: an excellent example that shows how completely unfair the current GP system is.

For most in the so-called GP series, it it's just a pay-day - they've no intention of winning it, just staying in it.

Greg Hancock is the perfect example..: is there honestly anyone out there who believes he’d have let Chris Harris past him if that was the final bend of a World Final with the title up for grabs..? :o:unsure:

 

Another good example which compares the meritocracy that was the proper World Championship system with the tired monopoly that is the travesty masquerading under that title today, is the rise of Michael Lee.

A raw 16 year old newcomer to the Second Division (NNL) in 1975, by September of 1977 and aged just 18 he was able to ride in the World Final (and indeed get into a run-off for third place in that Final; could have even won the title but for the reinstatement after 2 minutes exclusions of Olsen & Mauger.. :o ).

 

Now fast-forward to now. There are young talents around as good as Lee was in '75 as a 16 year old in Tai Woofinden and Lewis Bridger. Now let's estimate how many years it'll be before those two will be 'allowed' into the GPs..?? :unsure::angry:

Perhaps by the time they are, they may have lost interest: the opportunities to excel and achieve having been denied them in their early prime…

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The main problem I had with the old system, was the 50/50 split between the Western speedway nations and the "Eastern bloc" countries in terms of allocation of actual final places.

 

Whilst the system did allow a National League heat leader (or British League reserve) progress up the ranks from say an April meeting at Crayford through to the British Final and beyond, it was patently unfair that at times (especially 1978 when only 4 Brits were allowed to reach the final!) that the Poles. Czechs and Russians had a far,far easier route to Wembley, Ullevi or Katowice.

 

Apart from the odd upset, Gordeev in 1971, Sczakciel and Plech in 1973, Plech again in 1979, you could almost guess the bottom four placings in advance.

 

In no way, do I mean to belittle the efforts of the likes of Plech, Jancarz, Stancl, but surely Petr Ondrasik et al added little to proceedings??

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