All Activity

Hi Dean, sorry to see your old avatar gone, I was at Queensway meadows when you piled into the fence. I think you were trying to pass or keep up with some young laddie, looking good in the new one though.

I was only joking.

Mate I ride speedway bikes and drive a van, I have no idea what you are talking about 😂 I have to get the Mrs to set up the laptop and ear mike to do the podcast but I will pass the this on to Derek, cheers

The only reason Championship clubs get away with paying riders peanuts, is because the Premiership pays them proper money. With no Premiership, riders will be very unhappy!

I'm not sure the FIM are really interested in any domestic speedway anywhere. I don't think the ACU particularly have a one to one relationship with the SCB/BSPL. In the old National League days didn't those riders also ride with ACU licences? Obviously if there were to be any kind of breakaway league it'd probably be more attractive if it were affiliated to the ACU.

ACU licenses can be withdrawn & the FIM. Would support such actions. small “ankle biter” riders and events are not of a concern. Different matter if clubs want to promote & riders want compete in significant alternative league and solo events in opposition to BSPL organisations.

I know it's a joke, but 1) it was Kennett's 3rd ride he got injured in, not 3rd lap. 2) Plymouth didn't break any rules. 3) the rules haven't been changed since then, so BSPL must think they're still suitable. 4) Have any injured heat leaders been replaced since then? While it's easy to mock Plymouth, no-one else has been in the same situation & done any differently (unless I've forgotten someone). Most recent examples are Jason Doyle at Ipswich last year (different league I know) & Erik Riss at Redcar this year, neither of those teams could find a heat leader replacement. Most recent heat leader signings have been "spare" riders coming back from injury (Nicholls) or a ban (Morris). Riders of this ability are not normally available to cover after the season starts. Better mention Poole now, I think Kennett would be a good signing for the Pirates if his average dropped to 4.00, for example.

Would almost have filled Torun

But what can they do if they want a 6 team Premiership & not enough teams want to join them? They can't just make Poole or Glasgow move up.

... as have many others riding speedway with both NORA & SCB/ACU licences

Or people talking about Joe as a rider who hasn't been named in any teams 1-7. No different than any possible teams being put together.

Any idea when the fixtures will be released?

Gotta agree with arnieg here. On average teams that started on 40, should end on 42. If clubs start next season on 42, that should be the same strength as last year's sides starting on 40. So a 40 point limit is weakening the league. If the limit was raised to 41, the league would still be weaker (statistically).

Problems like this are usually caused by a number of things including running video on a device without enough ram to handle the processing of it, especially as you have a number of video feeds involved. Plus shaky wifi / slow internet. If you're not in the same room as your router you're asking for it. Always use a wired connection where possible. Plus the software you're using will massively affect how things sound. Zoom and Teams are obviously very popular but they totally screw your audio setup, and also squish the file as small as possible. If you are using those often they have a tick box somewhere for HD audio, that will help. Zoom & FaceTime are used by the BBC etc and they sound good but they run it either with video off and record the video on a separate cam or phone and put it together in production, or they use a broadcast grade version which isn't available in the shops.

I'm tired out meant to say guests, been a long day counting me Money 🤪

If there is no future for him in British Speedway he’s still got the GP gig (race coordinator?) He always looks busy. Can’t be easy running around the pits telling riders that they need to go to the track for the next race. Someone will no doubt tell me that his role is far more involved than that (assistance with track prep?) but from what I see, the average speedway enthusiast could do his ‘gofer’ job.

Perhaps an idea for next year is to run, 2 x Championships. A top league with a 45 point limit & a second league with a 40 point limit. Probably be easier to encourage an even split of 7 & 7 if it means stepping up to a "strong" Championship rather than the Prem. Still allows riders to double up. Hopefully still fit in the best non-gp riders in the new top tier?

Wrong as usual, didn't get R/R got guest facility for no1. 🧐

The BSPL, or any other Federation, cannot stop anyone who has ridden in a NORA meeting from competing in an ACU event. James Shanes has ridden Grasstrack (ACU) since riding for Mildenhall (NORA)

Tickets going well 15,000 sold

3 laps then pulls up injured R/R for rest of season 😛, so can get riders who perform on certain tracks, maybe been somewhere before ? Any comments lewy 😄

After his first race he was on the pace tbf Skidder.

Would not be surprised to see Hagon in Following in tracks of other ex Berwick ones

.