Deanomachino

There is loads of old school speedway riders still around who have a wealth of knowledge about speedway .listen and learn from these ex riders. I did, i even listened and learnt from a motocrosser from the sixties .he was so wise because he had been there been there and got the teeshirt. He learnt me about the crap that goes on in motorsport .I know i didnt get to the great heights of speedway but i realized after a few years i wasnt good enough so decided just to have fun at it and even made a bit of money at it .my message here is if you follow the latest trend speedway will bankrupt you ,before you spend a fortune on the latest gold talon wheels just think to yourself will they make me go faster than a plain silver jawa set? .if the answer is yes then thats your problem ,dont expect speedway to pay for your fashion

strange how there are still jawas in premier and a even a couple in elite yet they are not good enough to use in NL?. Holder, woffinden ,ward on a 10 year old jawa will still beat any NL rider on the latest GM .untill the day when that is not a fact jawa engines are good enough

i know for a fact that if this £10 a point isnt stuck to that one team wont be coming to the tapes next season and the NL cant afford to lose any teams so its in the intrest of the other teams to stick to it. Yes i could do my own engines but thats not the whole problem. NL riders waste more money on bling for their bikes than they need to .its not just in speedway its in all motor sports. They insist on things like joker throttles £100 When a gasser one is £20 and works exactly the same .they have buy straight backends when as proved the round one is no different in performance .you cant give round backends away but straight ones are £150. I could go on but you get the point. I understand engines are expensive to maintain but you wouldnt belive how much some NL riders waste on have expensive parts put in to their engines .there are even some offset GM engines in the NL ,why? You dont need an engine like that. Its great to have nice bikes and yes everyone wants the best equipment but why should somebody else pay for it

yes i agree ,although i like the best of british and other retro stuff i dont expect it to be in the Speedway Star .if that sort of stuff is not your thing and track review is not your team then the star in the last few weeks is not worth buying ,very little else in it . There is plenty of things good and bad going on in speedway at the moment but if its lazy journalism or not wanting to upset the powers that be it just dosent get in.

A problem in the national league is teams paying more than 10 a point and 10p a mile .too many riders at this level think the sport owes them a living and it dosent and the sport cant afford it.if all teams stuck to it the riders would either ride or dont ride ,. No doubt some dads will give the costs issue but it can be done ive done it

These couple of rule changes right or wrong are only going to please or not as seems the case the fans who already attend speedway and incase people are unsure the reason the sport is losing money is there are not enough of said fans attending .so my question is where is the vision for the future to attract new or even ex supporters to speedway

I hope all the british riders get an elite league chance not just NL but where is the reduction in admission to entice the most important people (the supporters) back to the sport. This imo was the first important step the sport has to make to getting the missing thousands back .Sadly it hasnt happened and i cant see the sport recovering any time soon

yes poland is where the big money is .a rider gets fined £1000s by his club if his shirt is not buttened up properly

jawa/jrm already make a 2 valve engine in upright and laydown form ,it is used for ice racing.

Untill the bspa grasp the sport is too overpriced for the fans nothing else really matters. It is not the answer to fans coming back but when fans are tempted back through a proper run sport and good promotion is could be the difference to make them believe they get value for money and want to return because at the moment even the diehards are feeling short changed. I know some will go to great lengths to explain why a £10 sport can't work but as any successful buusness man or women will tell you there is no word as can't .

I think it will be a mainly stay as we are agm and the bspa will issue a statement at the end saying ".more than ever we were in it together and we one in our goal to take the sport forward .we had some tough decisions to make about the future of our sport but chose not to take them but matt ford won the raffle and we were all delighted as fellow promoters with his win and we all had a jolly time at our weekend knees up .so for 2014 season its the same as before because lets face it as failure goes the last 10 have been a success. No other sport has drove so many fans away as speedway and we are planing to continue that success rate in 2014". I hope im wrong but there is too many hoovers in speedway and not enough radiators

they do at dudley

The riders should just stick together and ride ,get woffy in aswell then the FIM will have to back down . It makes me laugh that BSI pay the FIM so much every year and they believe that gives them absolute power but in the process they screw over bread and butter league racing and dont pay to conpensate it. I guess BSI are now feeling like the bspa (sad day when i stick up for that lot) Its tough at top

this has been my point in previous posts. I would say that 90% of novices think anodized rims are more important than a clean air filter.

you can get old jawa laydown engines for peanuts but unfortunatly the new breed of up and comings insist on the latest offset GM bike with monster stickers and a joker throttle and they cant even slide the bike but they insist on waisting money and for that reason i cant see them wanting to buy or ride an f2bike because thats not what holder/hancock or gollob are riding and in their head thats what matters 2 were used in the buxton air fence meeting by aidan and les collins .they were not far off the pace although on a big fast track i think they would be lost

i my personal opinion the honda ktm etc is not the way forward . The way forward is for someone to get jrm to make a budget speedway engine thats just for brirish speedway. Its cheap and you can only use the parts by that manufacutuer which are standard. They could even use the design for the ice engine that they currently make which is a 2valve and make the adjustments for speedway but had anybody got the will to make this happen ? I doubt it but i know one promotor did put this idea forward 5years ago but it never happend

a couple of my friends ride motox and they ride 450s and they do blow up quite alot. Any engine used like a speedway engine at max revs will blow up ,dosent matter if its made by honda or rolls royce or whoever and to say these motox engine will last without any blow ups is false. As said a jawa or gm or any engine will last a season without service if your just pootling round

1994 the speedway track was put inside the current stockcar track and i think it was 1996 the seperate current speedway track was built

There is an end of season do ,its on the 16th november at the winking man (same venue as last year) i think that is correct

if you do your history you will know a rider lost his life after he bled to death after his crash because his neck was cut on a mesh wire fence. He suffered no other injuries and wasnt even a bad crash . That wouldnt of happend with an airfence although airfences were not around at the time of the crash . Airfences were tested prior to being installed at speedway tracks .rye house may be the best of the mesh fences but put an airfence infront of that and you double the safety of it. You keep saying there has been no testing but there has briggo did loads of tests before they were installed at tracks . The" biased opinion" that i gave you is the same opinion that is shared by all riders .even Chris Holder will tell you they are the best fence but as with his crash the fitting of them needs to be looked at and i believe it has been addressed.

i will give you 1 staistic .the fact that i am here today talking to you after my crash at newport was a testiment to the safety of the airfence. Thats one life it saved ,maybe not enough to concince you but it sealed the deal for me

yes there is proof every rider that has slammed into all sorts of fences . They are used at some tracks in road racing and they spend millions on testing them. Car racing is total different as cars are fitted with crumple zones into the chassis .bikes dont have that luxury .the research behind these fences is done in the only way you can with racing and thats to test them in real situations. When the airfence first came out the were fitted on the straights aswell but it was found that it sucked the bike into the fence going down the straight but it only happened a couple of times.please explain how that would of been found out without actually being used in a race. Of the 1000s of serious crashes that have happend with the air fence only the lifting of the fence has shown to be at fault and that is being addressed. car manufactures spend millions on car safety and reinacting crashes but after all that money and testing there is still accidents that happen in the real world that they did not and could not see happening because in crashes not two accidents react the same but they learn from . There is no better testing ground than the real world but we have a great product and every rider agrees its a major step forward in safety. After seeing jason garrity's horrific crash at sheffield i believe an airfence inffront of the current fence would of prevented his broken leg. The so called safe fence snapped his front wheel rim in half ,what chance did a bone have

sheffield's safety record is nothing to do with the fence it the shape of the track. You dont hit the fence straight on you hit it along it ,it was the same sort of thing at exeter and that was a steel fence but you didnt hit it straight on and yes i have ploughed into sheffields fence aswell and it didnt save me from injury. The fence didnt give an inch so something had to absorb the impact and that was me .an airfence would of taken most of if not all of the impact. Riders crashing is testing .its work in progress . you cant test properly for racing incidents no matter how much money you throw at it .there will always be that one crash where a one in a million chance happend. I dont like using the" you have never raced a speedway bike " but when you have hit an metal/wood/mesh fence it bloody hurts and i have to say there have been a couple of times ive crashed into an airfence and it hurt very little .airfences a massive step forward in safety if you know me i very against pointless things being used in speedway like dirt deflectors and oil catchers etc and im very vocal about it but the airfence is a godsend for speedway and i know the SRA tried to push through airfence 5years ago at every level so the riders are all united on this .also there is a helmet on the market that you put on loose and then inflate to fit .Adam Mckinna used one at buxton this year. The only real way to test is to put it in real situations and that is whats been done yes it has floors and they need to be addressed but the airfence has been a excelent step forward and to read some promoters saying "my track dosent need them" and then to go to try to justify why is really sad

are you sure your not a promoter?. Well the air fence saved my life so thats proof enough for me and i dont think you would need to go far to find other riders who agree but the fact is they are going to be installed at every track and although ive retired now its a fact im really happy about

i used the bouncy castle /garden fence because thats what the 2 types of fence really are and my helmet broke because i hit the airfence so hard i actually hit the fence behind behind it aswell and thats what broke my helmet. Without that airfence infront things would of been a lot worse. My avtar pic is the crash . Yes it is my opinion but it is also the opinion of all the riders although they all agree the fixing down of the air fence needs looking at and any safety board anywhere in the world would be of the same opinion as the riders .air fences are also used in road racing aswell now