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Bizarre thing to say I know but I don't think Hancock spends enough time on his backside , when it happens like yesterday he gets really wound up and over reacts like his reaction to pedersen in Sweden last season , kk was rightly excluded but was more a crossing of paths than a deliberate move to have Hancock off and Hancock's mechanic was looking for a fight too ,

while I agree a lot of the rules are stupid ,complicated, confusing and often unnecessary and do need addressing they are not the priority , because you have to get the fans into the stadiums first for them to find the rules are crap , that's where the priority should lie , you have to make people want to attend and be apart of that club, make it attractive both as a place to be and a price to pay, the whole pay structure has to be addressed, with the end result being the fan gets a good deal , if you sat in a crowd of 10,000 fans and watched the most boring sport ever but your team won you would still attend again cause the feel good factor generated by the people around you , that's what speedway needs to get back but we have to start at the bottom and price accordingly cause at the moment we are trying to start half way up but pricing it at the top and its not working, its not an attractive proposition for any potential fan , the product can still be the greatest sport in the world (SWC FINAL) and can still be a drab affair (SWC RACE OFF) but infront of small attendances the product becomes less attractive, its the fans that make the difference ,they are speedway ,they are the important ones ,we have to start running the sport for them and not for the riders as it is at the moment , does any of this makes sense?

The bond between teams and their fans , for various reasons like doubling up/down , over use of guests and the mercenary attitude of some rides the bond has been lost and without it team speedway is pointless Strict regulations of engines with the ultimate goal of a stock engine and the elimination of the tuner dictating the sport. The reduction of admission for fans , make any excuse you like about the reason you can't drop the price but the fact is it's too expensive and there are some folk who can't afford it every week and there are some newbies who are put off by the price , it can happen and it must happen to move forward but it won't

the issue of machinery can be dealt with by the ACU or a committee made up of ex riders like for instance Jan staechmann who can see the wood for the trees and has nothing to gain by it , there are plenty of ex riders who can see where it's all heading , it wouldn't be hard to get them in a room and come up with a plan

a limiter of any sufficient measure say 10,000 revs would make the current bike even more unpredictable than it is now , the tuners would have to find more low down power and that's just more money for them , any answer is going to be a short term finacial pain but after a year a new slower less Reving engine that is less half the price of a current GM and has the fancy tuning parts banned is going to be a benifit to riders pockets . Whatever the answer is the sport has got to take its destiny out of the tuners hands , Peter johns current hold over the sport at the moment doing nothing for speedway , good for him but where is the good for the sport ? At the top of the sport now we are getting to the stage where you have to use Peter johns to win , isn't that like F1 where good drivers can't win cause they don't have the best car , do we really want that ?

The answer is the 2 valve 570cc engine that jawa produce , with strict control on parts and what can be done to them this is the sensible way forward for cost and safety , I posted this over a year ago on another topic , in return for the engine's exclusive use jawa sponsor all 3 leagues , I have told various party's including buster , someone someday will listen to me but in the meantime we can bury our head in the sand, to the people who say what about all the GM engines currently in use ? Well what happened to the japs when jawa 2v came along , what happened to all the 2 valve when weslake came along , what happened to all the weslakes when GM came along etc

I've brought a rotax jap speedway bike today , just wondering if I would be good enough for NL ? 👍🏻

Good to see the sponsors have no bias , monster Doris celebrating with the Aussies

I think we should move tomorrow's final to Buxton , yes it's a bit rough sometimes but it sorts out the men from the boys

Never mind the top draw the racing is out of the sock draw tonight

Dreadful decision , fricke was 2 wheeling into corner to avoid running into mjj , his fault

I've said many times it boils my piss when I see tuners taking the credit for riders , it shouldn't be like that, in speedway fans don't care about what bikes and who tunes them ,it's about the rider , it is not a bike sport it's a team sport on bikes , tuners and riders are dictating the direction and the cost of the sport and if you let the tail wag the dog for long enough the dog will fall over , the lesson is there to see and it's been there for long enough but will anything change ? I doubt it

could also be a bag of spanners that is dreadfull round belle vue

For me it's everything , always has been always will , no other sport even comes remotely close , the noise of a speedway bike is a pure music to me , I have done pretty much everything in this sport and it has broke my heart a few times , broke bones a few times and wiped my bank balance too many times but it has been worth it and although it winds me up now and again I love it as much as ever and really couldn't imagine life without it

then when mjj was excluded the guy off one should of been excluded too as he shoved mjj going into first corner causing him to run into other rider and don't forget bjerres miss timed elbow when he was off gate one

Iversen would of missed the corner even without the elbow , his bike was still driving forward with his wheel off the ground at the point where he should of been turning , a deliberate elbow yes but never an exclusion

Not the team I would of picked , would of gone for Harris or worrall over cook and bates over Ellis at reserve but it only matters what 1 person thinks and as long as they give their all we are behind them

Unless rosco knows the team already I take it the whole squad have all had their GB kevlars made just incase ? Cause you can't knock them all up after practice

You get some great racing at this little track

my point was general having seen how it is in Poland and this is what they do when they feel like it unless it's Ramadan celebrations nothing really gets the go ahead where I live and no I don't know if anyone has tried but you can't even take a fan round on s bike after a meeting now

yep and those pesky kids that were having fun have gone and the new generation are bored to death taking God knows how many drugs and robbing your house and possessions , sounds like a worth while swap

yes the original video was organised by red bull, but in general they want to ride in a field ,they ride , they want to ride on a lake , they ride and nobody says a thing , I want to ride my bikes and I have to travel half the country and then can't start them till a certain time and then can't ride in the pits , it's all h&s crap and I firmly believe as someone who has had the misfortune to have work with Tata steel that H&S was a big factor in why they are in the trouble they are in ,H&S is killing this country

your missing the point slightly , nobody is interested in organised crap we just want to have fun on wheels whenever and wherever we like , there is some woods by me where loads of lads rode our mx bikes but now no one can ride there , when I was in Czech a couple of years ago there were kids everywhere on fields and round lakes on mx bikes it was refreshing to see , I have bikes but have to travel to use them , I live 3 miles from a speedway track but I can't just turn up ride my speedway bikes whenever I feel like it but you can in poland

you can't even start a bike in this county without someone complaining , the pole who I mechaniced for has his own track the back of his house and nobody cares and they have bbq's at frozen lakes in the winter and make tracks on them

even so this is typical of Poland and one thing it shows is how far stuck up our own backside with health and safety we are in Britain