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  2. Posted

    It may be worth contacting the company you've bought the tickets off to see if you can get them delivered to the UK if you know anyone they could be sent too. Or arrange to collect them on the day. Unless of course they can guarantee delivery to your home address before you leave. As you seem to be paying a Kings Ransom for delivery you would hope yours are sent out well in advance.

  3. Posted

    I took part in an Olle Nygren Training School many years ago at King's Lynn. A real character. My brother also went (wearing Briggo Team Leathers) prior to me and shared a bike with Chris Prime who was later killed at Brough Park.

    Some mates and myself went on an Olle Nygren school at Kings Lynn too. I was given a pair of well beaten Green leathers with my body shape I looked like a slow moving Granny Smith on the video footage.

    But we had a helluva laugh.

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  4. Posted

    A bit late in the day for that.

    TBH I don't know who posted earlier in the thread and can't be bothered to look.

    Let he or she who has never gone to work worrying/thinking about problems etc in their personal life cast the 1st stone.

    I've done it and I bet there would be a bloody long line of others queued up behind me.

  8. Posted · Edited by Triple.H.

    I remember, though it wasn't in a GO race Steve Johnson at Oxford being handicapped 15M for tape touching, then being handicapped a further 10M for moving at the start in the rerun. Surely that shouldve been adjudged a 2nd starting offence so an exclusion, but Johnno went out and won the race and the stadium erupted with cheering and applause.

  9. Posted · Edited by Triple.H.

    I seriously doubt it.

    Travel within London definitely

    A few mates and myself travel up by train from Oxford to watch Oxford at various away games on the outskirts of London and it generally works out just over £19 each if we bought TFL tickets on arrival at Paddington it would probably be nearer £30 each

    Forgot to mention we go to watch Football not speedway

    Though we live in hope we can watch the Cheetahs(other inferior teams are available)

    Sooner rather than later

  11. Posted

    Hi, sorry to be a pain, but do you know if there has been another rule change? How were Protasiewicz and Smolinski allowed in both heats 13 and 14 when neither team was able to use a tactical ride? Or is there only one nominated heat this year? :unsure:

     

    Edit: Got it sorted now. Heat 13 is any of the riders from 2-6 in terms of points, and heat 14 is nominated.

    So as I see it not only do the BSPA have daft rules that nobody can make head or tail of. They've now spread to Europe

    I blame David Cameron

  13. Posted

    Barry Briggs did have his record shop in the 50s.Not sure if it lasted into the 60s or exactly when it closed

    Admittedly he wasn't a rider but photographer Mike Patrick had a record shop up the road from his house in Headington.
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  18. Posted

    I don't doubt there's a rule. I simply don't believe it would stand up to any legal scrutiny if a rider decided to challenge it.

     

    Riders have to have a licence to work, issued by a monopoly authority. Yet that licence dictates who they have to work for and when - hmmm....

     

    As I said, different if a rider has accepted to ride in a meeting and withdraws.

    But surely if it's stipulated on applying for a licence that a condition of the licence being issued is that you take part in the national championship. Illness/injury permitting though if they are your reasons for missing you get a 7 meeting ban as opposed to a week.

  20. Posted

    There is a full page advert in today's Oxford Mail sponsored by the Isle of Wight Warriors where there squad are all pictured wearing Save Oxford Stadium race jackets(I know they only had one)with comments from the riders. Kelsey mentions his families involvement at Oxford in his piece

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  21. Posted

    They'd leave themselves wide open to being sued for restraint of trade, and rightly so. At best they might sue the riders for breach of contract or something, assuming they'd formally agreed to ride in the meeting, but unlikely to be worth the effort or expense.

    If it can be restraint of trade then the countries version of the ACU as it is in our case specify that you must take part in the national championship. If you decide to pull a sickie or feign injury you get a weeks ban from the date of each round

    Problem solved

    Simplistic but it could work

  22. Posted

    It's frightening that, at that level of speedway, someone in a position of authority would exclude Kildemand in that instance.

    He deserves to get excluded even though his view was obscured as soon as he saw a slow/rider coasting he shouldve slowed down or laid it down to avoid him.

    Years ago I remember reading about the much maligned Len Silver running training schools and that he wouldn't let you out on track racing until you could lay the bike down. I think they used to throw a large stuffed doll onto the track.

    I have seen far lesser riders over the years be able to drop the bike on a sixpence.

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  23. Posted · Edited by Triple.H.

    The referee got it right . Patrick Dudek was in trouble and pulled to the outside and raised his hand to say he was i trouble. At the time he was in second place and pulled to the outside. Then Peter kilderman ploughed into the back of him. so PK should be excluded.As PD was still under power he should not be excluded. Good decision by the referee

    We're going for Paul Thorp at Oxford territory many years ago.Rob can no doubt give chapter and verse about the incident. Put his hand up to warn the other riders he had lost power. But then got the bike going and rejoined the race even though his actions had affected the other riders. Too say the late great Bernard Crapper blew his top would be the understatement of the century.

    Dudek raises his hand essentially withdraws from the race. How can anyone prove he was under power when PK hit him as he was just coasting along. PK should be excluded as he hit Dudek

    And Dudek out as not under power

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