THE DEAN MACHINE

As much as Lublin have a home track advantage Toruń have enough quality in their team to hold on to a 10 point lead

Lublin have looked a class act all season long but tonight they look very average

Yet another podcast ,same old same old, unless you’re going to be controversial and have on controversial guests we seen and heard it all before,,quite frankly I’m bored at hearing about getting the “right set up “ not for me I’m afraid and it’s not a dig at Dan or kelvin

Who pays for them ?

We currently have Rev limiters in the sport set at 13,500

Poland does rule the roost but to be fair poland also has its fair share of ex riders who see the need for change

Speedway was perfectly good at Peterborough in the upright or even the early laydown days when revs were a lot less, long stroke engines are more forgiving (especially when the track is rough)and have more usable power than a short stroke but it isn’t necessarily about the stroke of the engine or the angle it’s at, it’s the revolutions of the rear wheel, it is around 30mph+ quicker than the speed of the bike,to slow the back wheel down doesn’t mean to slow the bike, I think if they limited the engines to 10,000 revs max maybe they would revert to longstroke’s but I’m sure they could get a short stroke to work better at lowers revs, a slower spinning wheel mean less tyre wear, less damage to tracks, less engine wear, by its nature the engine would be quieter so we could do away with the current silencer which has restricted the power band even more than before, but none of this will happen because riders will tell you no and they rule the sport, when you see a MotoGP rider or F1 driver do a burn out that is what speedway is doing for 60 seconds every race and doing it a up to 70mph

In Poland and in the GPS you are allowed a new tyre every race they are now using tubeless tyres (using moose’s I assume) yet more expense to go the same speed

I have in my workshop a short stroke GM with 93mm piston, I can’t imagine how hard that would be to ride in a British track but clearly someone did, thing is there are ex riders out there who speak up about engines but get shot down by the current riders, saying things like “you can’t stop progress” but it isn’t progress , the sport is paying more to stand still or even go backwards, there could well of been a faulty batch of tyres yesterday but the tyre problem has been around for years but we plod on putting a plaster over gapping wounds, it breaks my heart what this sport has become and it has become unnecessarily

It won’t happen because there is no discipline in the mechanical side of the sport, the riders rule the sport, until that changes nothing changes

And nobody is talking about the elephant in the room and it’s been in the room for years ,in the last 15-20 years the revs on a speedway bike have increased dramatically, tyres can’t cope, valves springs can’t cope, tracks can’t cope, nothing has been achieved racing wise or cost wise and safety wise has gone backwards, the only ones to benefit are the tuners and even they will tell you they don’t make enough, it is a misconception that speedway is faster now, it isn’t, the bikes are traveling at roughly the same speed as the upright days, the difference is the speed of the spinning wheel has increased hugely and you run a tyre spinning at that speed with around 6psi what the hell do you expect, yes mitas were a better tyre than anlas but there isn’t a tyre manufacturer in the world that could produce a tyre that wouldn’t get ripped to shreds on a current speedway bike, will speedway learn from its mistakes ? I doubt it

You will see it pumping the oil through the glass when bike is running, if you are still unsure unscrew the banjo that is top of oil pipe to head, oil should come out, don’t do it for long though, do you have reason to think it’s not working ?

Sadly this is much much worse than speedway, it could be as bad as starving or freezing to death

I don’t mind kelvin

Subjective view I know but Marcella reminds me of a Eurovision Song Contest presenter and is annoying as hell

I wouldn’t be so sure, the FIM are already taking about it, and laguta has been posting some things lately, sayfutinov seems to have disappeared of the face of the earth

If laguta gets back in so will sayfutinov, then will be only 3 wildcards and you would of thought it would be 7th, 8th, 9th

Bewley’s for the taking now

Zmarzlik

Janowski should of gone there

Frustrating, killing the momentum of the meeting

Doyle’s last 2 rounds have been confidence sapping, been on the deck 4 times and 2 tape offences and bikes lacking speed

Yes many times, had a big crash there in 1997 and hated it after that

I had him as a team mate at Weymouth

That statement should have the words “finish a race” at the end