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On 12/2/2022 at 10:09 AM, Bagpuss said:I hope Mildenhall can sort something out because it's a great little venue for a Sunday afternoon out, but they MUST sort the long drawn out meetings and the high number of falls. Folk are obviously voting with their feet, get the product right and they are likely to return.
Concur. Have only visited the one time and thought it was a great set-up (the USAF Galaxy C5 Starlifters taking & landing were pretty cool too), hope they can continue....
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6 hours ago, phillwhitewasmad said:Rob is a great fella and always tells you as it is most of those who criticise him have never took the time to talk to him .
Can only help, really hope Godfrey provides an ideal solution to Worky's unfortunate security issues, as Scunny sadly suffered the same at one time. Speaking as I find, was told 'Rob Godfrey is a right misery guts', he has his critics & I don't agree with everything he says but he keeps his Scunny track at the tapes each season so there's that. Once when chatting re: riding on his track, he offered me the loan of his own leathers (too big) plus we discussed the need to get right up the front on a speedway bike. He confirmed this advice to be correct with the proviso of also needing to be careful in regard to protecting one's wedding tackle
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On 12/21/2022 at 5:19 AM, OveFundinFan said:I am about two thirds through the 500 plus pages. It is an extremely well put together history of PC’s career, starting from a very young age, very young.
Having lived and brought up in the same small village of Partington, sort of 10 miles south west of Manchester, I find his detail of life at that time very interesting. The passing away of Bill Collins, Peters dad, at such a young age, and of his mechanic George Clarke, again so young, was very touching. Two nice guys.
Earlier in this thread I commented the first chapter I read was Mechanics (as I valued my mechanics when I was doing club level grass tracking). Another interesting chapter was the one about music he listened to whilst travelling to meetings. 60,000 travel miles a year… there is only so much small chat you can cover with your mechanic/driver. He met some amazing artists during his travels. I too was/am a fan of the Hollies and ELO, to get to meet them would be amazing. Peter did, I am jealous..
I still have a third of the book to read, one day it may be a single chapter, another day 2 maybe 3 chapters. I am sure the remaining chapters will divulge a lot more insight into Peters highly successful career.
Big surprise for me was chapter 6, paragraph 3.Well done to Peter, TonyMac and Sue, plus all the others, and there will be many, who put together this record of Peters career…….arguably Englands most successful speedway rider (he is in my mind anyway).
I have read Chris Morton’s “Until the can runs dry”, a very good read. I want to read Dave Morton’s book. I always thought Dave was going to be a very top rider but maybe his serious accident curtailed his progress to that very top level. And I still waiting for a book that will cover what really went on behind the scenes leading to Belle Vues new stadium and the first 12 months of its management. Just curious.
Was at an Ivan Mauger talk-in and when asked about the Mortons brothers he said "there was no difference (in ability) between Dave & Chris Morton, until Dave got injured", think it was from when Dave broke his thigh; at Hackney in 1976 ?....
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2 hours ago, falcace said:I think you misunderstand me. I'm talking about investing in it as a business. not whether you buy it. No worries.
Yes, the paper quality has notably dropped too. You will see other areas of quality rescinding in due course. The market is shrinking and so too is the demand for the product as it is. Hence the cutting of overheads, rather than a rethink of the product. Which is madness really. Quite simply, there is no scenario where Speedway Star's business will pick up in its current model. So, change or die.
I have always admired some of the work of the folk behind the Star, particularly the work that goes into the foreign news and Peter Oakes' excellent pages. But that work badly needs redirecting to reflect a modern media platform and the demands of consumers. And that does not mean a Pdf of the pages.
Ok, was supposed to be working, even though I'm at home. But yeh agree with the above, no surprise we only have the one regular printed speedway publication, Big Shame the excellent Backtrack & Clasic Speedway ended, costs going up a ridiculous amount all the time. I do what I can to support the Star, feel a bit guilty phoning but replacements for missing mags are sent asap by the very efficient Dave Fairbrother, mostly buy another copy from a shop, but none been in stock of late. Again, really hope the Star continues.....
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6 hours ago, falcace said:And would you invest in a print-only media title?
The demise of regular print is a reality every media platform has to confront and those who stick their head in the sand die. Send me a letter and we can continue the debate
Yes. Yes I do. I subscribe to all my magazines and have them delivered to our door. Should point out, speaking as I find, the stuff I've seen & done on t'net has been via fibre optic broadband, in and outside of Hull, still pretty random speeds....
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I much prefer printed mags. Speaking as I find, my take on online content of any kind; when it works, it can be incredibly useful and bring so much enjoyment & pleasure. When it doesn't; it can be the biggest frustration & waste of space & time possible. Or: on whatever platform / service: I have watched live sports & accessed Sykpe, Tik-Tok, etc from USA, Aussie, Japan, Russia, etc, we've prob all done it, it was just like being there in person. At other times it can be quicker to print out and physically take documents by hand to locations anywhere in this country or even across town. I work with I.T. BTW, while I'm certainly no Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg (sp) I am surrounded by knowledgable anoraks / geeks / nerds / tech wizards so expert help is readily available, but when online stuff don't wish to work, it just don't.. So, yeah much prefer printed versions.....
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3 hours ago, nw42 said:I almost envy you, I went cover to cover in just a few days and thoroughly enjoyed the book, I'd advise any of your family not to attempt meaningful conversation until the new year, depending on your reading speed of course.
Me too, over a few days. Like all such books crammed with detail, but told in an interesting way, ( it's just like PC is dictating it to you ) I will be reading it again over the holidays....
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Like buses my late Speedy Stars both arrived together; week ending 10th & 17th December, so plenty to read
. So, Schlein is returning then, etc....
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On 12/19/2022 at 8:12 AM, Bandit59 said:You get entry and a programme for £20 that's good value
Think entry was £18, proggies £1 cost me £20 as I bought a +1 for friend, parking was £1 maybe that's was was meant; entry £20, inc prog £1 & parking £1....
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Same here but no drink, still not that cheap but worth it to me as I get so much enjoyment from the sport. Not my team & not over-fussed over the result but I just love speedway. Tried giving up but missed it terribly (there's no cure) so here I still am, like this year will get to as many meetings in 2023 as I can....
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"News team were terrible, when i actually got a delivery it was the daily star, will continue as i am at the moment, as it not pinegens fault.
Snap but I bailed out and bought copies from local Morrisons, so helping out speedway star in a roundabout way, no fault of pinegen, lost in royal mail back log, probably still gonna get Xmas cards at Easter at this rate.".
Same here but my Speedway Star is currently (not) being delivered by Royal Mail though regular mail still turns up, esp junk mail, no 'Stars in stock in local Asda or Tesco this week.....
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"Same for me. When it came by Royal Mail it was almost 50/50 whether it was on time or late/delivered to wrong address/not at all.
I'm now two mags missing no doubt the postal strike, if this week's isn't here by Saturday I'm going to get it from Tesco who have it in stock."
Same here again, when it was delivered by courier it never arrived at all, ever, now 3 - 4 per year don't turn up. When delivered in brown envelope the mag was on time 99% of the time, was brilliant, now much less so. Local Asda & Tesco don't have any in stock, getting a tad fed up....
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5 hours ago, martinmauger said:Or in East Yorkshire, had regular post pretty much every day tho. Seems the 'Stars aren't being collected late by Royal Mail....
Seems Stars not being collected....
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Or in East Yorkshire, had regular post pretty much every day tho. Seems the 'Stars are being collected late by Royal Mail....
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Adding another 2p worth, I'm still a good few years off OAP status myself (at least least I hope they will be good) but have seen for myself that times aren't easy for my mum & dad, who are OAPs. Saw one track, forget which, only offered a £2 discount on adult admission for OAPs me, I wouldn't bother over that amount, it might just pay for a proggie or parking. The point I'm trying to make is I think OAP discount should be more, say £5 or so, else isn't really much of a saving....
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Personally I don't see why news on Newcastle shouldn't be posted on BSF. Incedentally was listening to Planet Rock Radio on Monday, and a listener with a Geordie accent won £132,000 in the daily cash prize competition. Wonder whether he's a speedway fan ?!
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This ^^, I'm sure gonna miss Backtrack, Classic Speedway too tho not really 'my era', I first got into speedway mid-1970's....
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Thiss ^^. Should add re viewing my first Formula E race: at pit stops I was genuinely interested (at first) and expected to see some kind of fast charge or power cell change, not drivers simply leaping out of one car and jumping into another, still can't believe it. EVs don't really work, range & charge times are a joke, charger output is so varied & unreliable & the cells die, very expensively, after few years use & speaking personally I can't park my car within 100yds of any potential charge point. EVs are likely for our children's children (of whom I have none) or maybe their children, and prob won't improve until or unless someone like Elon Musk gets seriously interested and comes up with a breakthrough but much improved on his current Tesla EVs, which also don't really work. Speedway & motorsport in general is probably 'safe' from emission worries for the time being....
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2 hours ago, Daniel Smith said:You only have to watch Formula E, eTouring & Extreme E to realise none is better than some.
It's all a really tough watch.
Might as well set up a league for biddy buggy racing around a coffee table.
Electric Speedway will be an absolutely horrendous spectator sport
Speaking as I find (which some don't like) the first time I watched Fomula E racing I was genuinely interested in so many aspects like performance, quality of the actual racing, range and charge speeds of the cars, etc. I almost fell off the settee laughing when at the pit stops when drivers simply lept out of their cars with a flat battery & jumped into a 2nd car, I literally couldn't believe it. On this basis each driver of Formula 1 car, Touring car, F1 stock car etc would use 2 or 3 cars each per race and speedway riders 5 or 6 bikes each per meeting. Though a potential 'E speedway bike' could probably do one meeting on a single charge. Back on subject re; carbon footprint I beleive as speedway bikes run on methanol and use castor-based oil, which is no longer dumped on the track, the actual engines are pretty clean running i.e much les carbon emissions than engines running on unleaded petrol & certainly less than diesel-engined vans, for example. Someone more knowledgable & inforned than me (not necessarily difficult) could confirm this or otherwise....
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15 hours ago, Coventry_Bee said:Well it’s certainly a shock signing, some of the comments a little harsh but time will tell.
I can only imagine that his fiancée hasn’t settled and they are returning to the uk? You’d imagine they had a plan to move to Australia once Rory had finished Speedway, if the move hasn’t gone as planned and Rory has the desire to race still then fair play to him and don’t forget the work he put in with British youngsters so I wish Rory and his family all the very best on returning to the Uk.
My thoughts too ^^. Good for the Bandits, Champs League (& maybe Prem League ?), Schlein himself & UK speedway in general, many said he was hanging up his kevlars too early, I'd be interested to learn why the U-turn....
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"This has happened with a couple of other magazines to which I subscribe. I suppose that they think that paper is 'green' after the stuff about plastic. Certainly the paper envelopes biodegrade in the post ."
"Of course one of the problems with getting a subscription copy whether plastic or paper packaged is when the royal mail cwu members go on strike!! If the postie decides not to deliver on Saturday then its into the next week before I get mine."
And me, 'courier deliveries' never are arrived at all, Royal Mail is as above. One interesting point: on the odd ocassion my Star hasn't arrived at all, like the next Tuesday or so (!), a replacement by 'the man of few words but very efficient' Dave Fairbrother is sent in a brown envelope, always arrives the very next day and, yes, I have shared this info with the Star / Pinegen.
Supposed to be 'Speedway Star section' but, as stated, there's no queue to take over from Godfrey, who I don't agree with all the time, or any promoter for that matter. At one time I wanted to be an SCB referee then a team manager and made official enquiries, or if a load of numbered balls line up in my favour, a team & track owner / promoter, nowadays - not so much. I've been into speedway for far too long, or so I'm told (!), but not enough to take on the enevitable & prob endless grief & hassle of becoming an official or team owner, very few do....
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21 hours ago, tyke said:To summarise
Yes
No
Maybe
Coulda just sed 'perhaps'
, hopefully Holder Snr will return....
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5 hours ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:Witches fans that saw him classically shepherd Toni Svab around ahead of Jason Crump at Peterboro would disagree
Not saying TRick didn't ever team ride, just not as much as the mentioned riders which wouda bin pretty much impossible. Would love to have seen the race mentioned, Crump also got done by NickiP in a SWC meeting, enjoy clever tactics from anyone....
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Jumping in late, I'd send a PM to Topcat who posts on here from time to time, he defo has a 2vJAWA. Hope your motor gets rebuilt ok....
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Correct Pricing of Headbanging Heavy Metal :-)
Thanks for the tip. Just finished reading about the late Ronnie's career with Rainbow esp the very excellent Long Live Rock & Roll album. Will be revisiting the listening of Motorhead's seminal Ace Of Spades LP later (3 x LP vers hardbound w 40 page book - reduced from £54.99 to £29.99 in HMV sale
) later accompanied by a burger & plenty of drinkipoos. Likely through headphones as girlf is out tonite - no need 'to behave' - may yet share the experience with the neighbours once all the fireworks start going off, which in Hull could well be around teatime
. I'm not kidding.
Happy New Year to all in speedway
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