THE DEAN MACHINE

A few years ago at i track I rode for we had some shale delivered that was rubbish and didn’t bind at all and made it’s terrible to ride so when we were prepping the track at 11pm the night before our next meeting the tractor accidentally knocked over the waste oil drum in the pits which rolled onto the track and continued to roll round the track untill it was completely empty,as much as we tried we just couldn’t stop it rolling the next day it rained in the morning and the track was a nice shade of blue and yellow but was nice to ride if not a little sticky

It says the capicity for the NSS is 6000, your not going to get 4000 on a tempory stand on the car park ?? What was the crowd for the World Cup a couple of years ago? Was it 8000 and something ?

The track is a massive plus but would rather see it somewhere else, racing aside the NSS just doesn’t do it for me, you have got to think big and believe that they could get 20,000 in the right stadium

Hope not, if there is another GP in Britain then make it in Scotland somewhere and somewhere that holds at least 20,000

Wolves was really good tonight, no dust and fairly good racing, despite the ambulance being late through an accident the meeting started after 8 and was finished well before 10

Both bewley and lambert having a good meeting

Good ride for bewley

Not saying it’s right but looking at it from bsi point of view he was a dream for them, he got the crowd wound up like a pantomime villain and we are still talking about it today, as I said it’s not right as it’s a professional sport but a little bit of crowd interaction is never a bad thing

Really enjoyed last night, thought the track was best it’s ever been and racing was good, atmosphere was really good, referee was dreadful even inconstant but it did add to the atomosphere, nicki p, lindgren and the ref getting loudly bood, hope Doyle is ok, overall a great night out, restored some passion back in british speedway for me, there were no classic bikes in the fanzone despite it being advertised which was a letdown for me as I have a passion for old bikes as do a lot of fans but on the whole loved it, also went to Somerset Friday and it too was a decent meeting but felt the crowd for the size was a bit flat but I don’t suppose the rain helped

British speedway more than ever needs a british winner tonight

Ok I will leave you to it, I’m obviously boring you so I won’t bother anymore

Isn’t this a forum ?we are just amusing ourself why we wait for your grand plan to fix the problems but your making us wait so we will just continue to amuse ourselves but thanks for the input

The product is a throttle that halves the turn on the bars, at the moment the throttle turns about 180 degrees this new one turns about 90degrees so basically becoming a on off switch and Greg is a master of throttle control as he was brought up old school

not just the lower end,its lost the mid range too, the back wheel is spinning about 1500 revs faster than it was 20 years ago but the bike speed is still pretty much the same, the light flywheels in a short stroke engine just makes it rev, it not all the engine the silencer has reduced the usable power a bit more, the bikes are relatively easy to ride no matter what the size of the track and on a smooth surface they behave but as soon as there is a build up of dirt or a rut they just take off, now imagine the bike takes off and you have to scrub that wheel spin off before you hit the fence , on a track like belle vue you not so much broadsliding as steering a skid, you need the bike to be going forward all the time but on a smaller track you have to turn hard and you scrub a lot of speed off, on really tight tracks your almost going backwards mid turn, so do we really need extra wheelspin to go the same speed?, the product looks the same, many of the people I have spoken too have said we should never have gone from upright to laydown, even hans Nielsen and peter karlsson said it but we did and the first laydowns were great as they had the handling of the laydown chassis and the performance of the upright engines but as short strokes got more popular we are just getting further and further away from a good bike no matter how much they shine

as I said spend some time in Poland, they have some real crap tracks that are in fields, did you watch the SEC FROM gustrow at the weekend?, a small track similar size to buxton that has a similar black type shale and was rough, completely the opposite to belle vue but there was some really good racing on it especially in the first half the meeting, the size of the track doesn't matter, all the size does is make the tuner more important

think you need to spend a bit more time in Poland mate, they have some amazing tracks and stadiums but they have some real dumps too

they are not ,they bikes were the best around 20 years ago , they were the safest and easiest to ride and pretty much the same speed as todays bikes, difference being they didn't have problem getting round any track, but riders follow suit and go with whatever someone else uses, there is a product that has been made but no one is using it yet, if it does I gaurentee some will be killed with it, greg hancock saw it and said he couldn't use it as it doesn't suit how he rides but other lesser riders will see it a progress cause it in theory makes the job a little less work but it also takes away the little throttle control they have now , its a disaster waiting to happen

investing in what?,longer vans

our product only differs because we have killed the team concept, we don't have a team to support anymore only in name , I used to be a wolves fan, who never missed a match, I have been twice this year because I cant relate to a team who has 5of the 7 riders riding for another team, in Poland your team is your team not someone elses team

the bikes are not fit for the purpose the tracks are the same as they have always been and even if you were right 90% of the tracks cant be changed

Poland have structure and they gear their leagues to the fan, when you go to polish league speedway you become part of the family of what ever team your at, as I said earlier I have been to some pretty poor polish meetings but the fan experience made it great

you keep referring to your restaurant, so how do you attract me to your restaurant as im the type of person who only eats cause I have to, I don't get all that celebrity food bollox and food is just that food so how would you get me into your restaurant because your idea is to show me the food is great, the best but I couldn't care less cause food isn't my thing , but if all my friends were going to your place and it looked fun to do then I would go

the team concept works extremely well in Poland for speedway and in pretty much every other team sport in Britain, until that changes I am completely right, the concept works ,it is a team sport

I sort of class myself as the old guard but im trying to cut costs for the riders because come next season and they have their pay halved they will be moaning like hell , its not that I don't want them to have it, I couldn't really care less what they spend but being an ex rider I want to help them

but this goes back to my old argument that speedway isn't a motorsport, it never has been, it a team sport on motorbikes , that's been its appeal since day one, its not like any other motorsport, ( the twitter poll seems to agree with me )we have never appealed to dirt or road track fans on mass,i always think of my mrs as the typical fan, she has been to speedway all her life yet she couldn't tell you the difference from a jawa to a gm or a weslake to a jap and we own all of the above, to her its a bike and that is typical to the majority of speedway fans including the ones that have left the sport, what she can identify with is the riders and her team. to address the racing you need to address the bikes and you disagreed with that but changing tracks will do nothing there will still be bad meetings even on the best tracks that is the nature of the sport