THE DEAN MACHINE

Developed into what ? Bikes that don’t work in the wet or on anything other than a billiard table of a track, if tracks need to be like BV then why are the crowds so low ? Even the poles are looking into engines, tracks have worked before with different engines, and people who think big tracks are the answer are wrong, 2 big tracks in poland are Gdańsk and gorzow, both get big crowds both have poor racing . I don’t think people are grasping how close other teams are to going the same way as rye house and it’s nothing to do with the size of the tracks or the engines being ridden, but unless costs are addressed the riders are going to be well out of pocket

There is a job just made for you waiting at ACU house rugby

In all my years that I have gone to wolves that has to be one of the worst matches I have ever witnessed, it was dreadful

Sometimes wow just about covers it

Yes they are bitch but that tells you the bikes are at fault not the track the reality is we can’t make the tracks bigger so it’s the bikes that have to change, the riders and the tuners have dictated the engine direction because there is no controls in place, Warsaw ,Cardiff, horsens and gustrow are all small tracks and they seam to enjoy them, the problem is a lot of modern day riders learnt with the throttle only working one way, maybe it’s time to go back to speedway school, personally I preferred the tight technical tracks but I was riding engines that were fit for the purpose, i keep getting told it’s progress and engines have evolved, evolved into what ? Evolved into engines that need wide open spaces and no hint of rain, progress ???? We are going backwards

The size of the track doesn’t make a difference and to a point neither does a patchy surface but a narrow track does make a lot of difference , tonight’s meeting in gustrow was as good as any meeting at belle vue and it’s a small track about the size of buxton and it was rough and bumpy but as always at this track it produced good racing as it is wide and has good width entry into the corners ,tracks are not the problem although width would help it’s the bikes that are the problem, there is nothing wrong with small tracks that isn’t speedways problem

Tracks are not too small, gustrow proved that today and bikes are not really any faster than they were 30 years ago, the back wheel speed has increased but the bike speed is pretty much the same but you don’t need a magic wand what you need is someone to get control of the machinery and stop the free for all which has gone on for years but it won’t happen cause the tail wags the dog and while it does the sport is cooked

Never understood why they have the GP at teterow when this track is less than 30 miles away and racing is miles better

Gustrow is one of those tracks that prove you can have good racing on small tracks , it has plenty of lines

I would be mortified if any of my customers were not happy with my service, without them I don’t have a business

You all know how the country felt after the football on Wednesday, well that’s how I feel about the way british speedway is being run, my sport, my life and it bloody hurts

Not only are they silent and secretive but they also silence those within who dare to speak out

As soon as this torid season is over, the first agm on November 1st and the first question is a simple one , do we want british speedway to be a competitors sport like Moto GP, motox etc or do we want to be a team fan sport like it has always been, a team sport on motorbikes, if it’s the first then there is no point perusing the team aspect and make it pay to race with prize money, if it’s the second then the bikes,riders, cost, presentation and the team ethic need to be looked into and changed , currently we are trying be be the fan based team sport but being run like a competitor sport and it doesn’t work, there is hardly any control over mechanical side of the sport and riders and tuners are pushing and pushing but in reality all they are pushing is the cost up and many fans and potential fans couldn’t care less, to prove this point something I would like to see is take a meeting like poole v belle vue and get the riders to all use a basic no frills engine used by all 14 riders but don’t tell the fans, the fact is hardly anyone would notice because it’s not something they care about , it’s all about the riders and their teams, we need to push the team model

Spot on, Sky is the devil in many ways but with regards the deal it gave speedway there is only one at fault and sad to say it was us

Non racers will never understand the mentality of racers, the thrill of going over the edge or close to it and not only surviving but winning on top of that is the best feeling in the world, it really is like the best orgasm times 10

Wrong decision to exclude Laguta

Czestochowa has great racing not because of the way it’s prepped or even how much dirt it has as it doesn’t have a lot and it’s not really the size either, it’s the width and especially the width of the corner entry, the fastest line is on the outside right by the air fence but you leave so much room for the guys behind that you run the risk of being beat to the exit of the corner by the rider taking the shorter run which is just the point where your picking up your straight line speed, it all makes for great racing and is definatly one of the best tracks in the world

Watched it live on Sunday, it has everything that speedway can offer, great racing great atmosphere, huge crowd, tension and a last heat decider

yes I know, Ive been told it so many times in the last couple of weeks by the "in the know" fans lol

but according to some in the know Jayne you hadn't paid your riders

im not saying all these are the right ideas but we should be looking into them but as we keep seeing the usual same responses " you cant do this, you cant do that, the riders need to earn a living, bla bla bla " the sport is almost rock bottom so really nothing is off limits and only this poster and j chapman seem to be offering any real ideas the rest just sound like a speedway AGM where tinkering with small things are seen a major restructuring, speedway "as we know it" in Britain is all but dead so nothing should be dismissed no matter who it upsets, everything riders, tracks, bikes, finances, presentation, league structure and even looking into some of the people who work within speedway, are they the right people ? the whole lot should be discussed and acted on in an AGM straight after the last match of the season

and speedway pays nothing either to BT for showing its live product nationwide and beyond, it is failing not because of BT but because of us, I agree would should get something but do we deserve to ? the official viewing figures for the rye house tv meeting were 53,000 which is good for any sport on BT other than football and on that basis yes we do deserve to be paid, but look at the product on show, racing aside there was a couple of hundred people there and that isn't going to get any casual viewer to want to attend anytime soon , it was flat like watching a church fair with some bikes and do we deserve to be paid by BT or anyone to watch that? for the deal to benefit us we need to show the world we are exciting and the place to be, on TV meetings the stadiums need to be buzzing, I know its catch 22 situation but BT are giving us the platform to take our sport to the masses but we are not delivering, if we delivered we may just catch the attention of some sponsorship fro a major company and then we strengthen our position to go and get something from BT or another network

If we go with the mindset of there is no benifit of to putting our product out to a huge potential audience like on BT and all that matters is to stop the dwindling fan base on a Monday night tv meeting then we may as well go with no tv coverage at all and you say BT get all the profit for nothing, we get live speedway put on a major TV network and it doesn’t cost us anything, we lose money because we can’t get people to attend in numbers anymore but that’s not BT’s fault it’s ours

Think so, must be doing maintance or they haven’t paid their staff their Twitter is still working although no posts for a few hours

Don’t know what figures they get but the 11sport channel also show Swedish league as well as polish first division and a fair few polish test matches