chucks 63 Posted October 18, 2015 The nearer to Edinburgh you get, the greater the opposition to establishing a Speedway venue becomes from pompous, snobby, nimby councillors (including SNP reps also surprisingly) and overzealous, jobsworth local planners & H & S enforcers There is also the further complication that being a Showground site any prospective tenants come under intense scrutiny by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland who are generally not inclined to consider accepting newcomers outwith their industry. Thankfully we are now well integrated into West Lothian where the local authority now consider us as an asset rather than a nuisance to the surrounding environment. Our cousins from the West should be grateful that they are dealing with a Local Authority who do not consider Speedway within the Glasgow City area as some threat to it's citizens and appear to assist them in planning and H & S matters. have to agree with you about snobs etc ect. turn clock back to1988 they had stock car racing at newtongrane midlothian, in a right down trouding place newgrange is . local conciller out with decils meters eventuliy after a big fight back conncil would not renew licence, people came far and wide to the stadia ,well the wn#hole stock car circus move the lot to cowdenbeath whitch to date still going strong in cow/b. the stadia is right smack in the middle of cow/b seems everybody locals council seem to be in favor a nd help,ayr nearer you get to edinburgh area concils dont want noise of engines even thou big following Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
barncooseboy 237 Posted October 19, 2015 ALWAYS ensure that these planning coun cillors are aware that speedway bikes run on methanol fuel, mention an alternative name is wood alcohol and when it burns in the bike the exhaust product is water. That should appeal to their green credentials plus these days the modern bikes no longer dump all the oil out of the exhaust pipe, unfortunately that results in crap track surfaces Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SCB 0 Posted October 19, 2015 ALWAYS ensure that these planning coun cillors are aware that speedway bikes run on methanol fuel, mention an alternative name is wood alcohol and when it burns in the bike the exhaust product is water. That should appeal to their green credentials plus these days the modern bikes no longer dump all the oil out of the exhaust pipe, unfortunately that results in crap track surfaces What is there (other that moany greens finding out and getting upset) in place to stop a track man just getting a load of used oil and dumping it no his track anyway? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
barncooseboy 237 Posted October 19, 2015 its illegal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
