THE DEAN MACHINE

Rest in peice Alan

exelent I've just added eleven sport to my NC+ contract

is it not on Eurosport ?

wolves have 5 double uppers

those engines have gone back to their owner as we just couldn't get round the ignition problems with them , Adam has now purchased 2 GMs which unfortunately he hasn't got to use yet as wolves replaced him before he picked them up , however if you look at the scores he got when the engine did work you will see Adam still has it even at top level ,

i have banged on about doubling up since it became the norm, it is a total farce If a team sign double up riders ,promotors should be made to reduce admission price per meeting by a £5 per rider for every time a rider misses a meeting cause riding for other team excluding young British NL riders

In a lot of various sports unless your at the top a lot of competitors have other jobs but for some bizzare reason speedway riders seem to think because they can race speedway they should earn a living from it ,unless at the top be grateful you get paid to ride your bike , you could always get a job in the real world 9-5 , nobody is forcing you to ride ,for 20 years I had a blast , the time of my life and looking back it proberly cost me to ride but so what , I earnt a living outside speedway and always have done , I don't begrudge riders earning a living at the top but the money just isn't there for everyone and attitudes need to change

irrespective of my various rolls I may of had in the sport I am just a fan sick to death of doubling up , speedway is a team sport and when you ride for a team , you are that team not just when it suits you , as much as I know how much riders are paid here and abroad im not interested in riders earnings or if they can make a living at speedway , what I am interested in is speedway and it's future

i know exactly how much riders earn , I also know how much it costs to ride , I could go into some exact figures but I'm not going to as it's not my place to put riders earnings in to public demain

total rubbish

I don't know the numbers but wolves crowds look poor to me , I was looking from the center green against belle vue on Tuesday and there was a lot of empty space on the teraces and belle vue brought a few fans too

It was on sky news this morning the education minister is to introduce A level bspa tests into schools , he said " after seeing the equation of 3 points a win x 4 rides = 13 point average we believe this to be a suitable test for young Einsteins everywhere " sky went on to interview Bradford magician Dynamo and he said " even I couldn't have pulled this one off "

does anybody know what's going on ? and I include the bspa , I believe there is a meeting taking place at ACU towers this week to discuss the mess that the new average rules have created

easily solution is you owe money within the sport at end of season then next season you don't get a licence untill it's cleared it's that simple , over to you SCB

between me and Adam we have over 40 years racing experience but this engine is proving a testing time for us , the ignition system is in our opinion way to complicated for what's needed in speedway , the engine itself isn't too bad when it runs ok but for whatever reason it just develops a randem misfire and we just can't find out why , like I said at wolves on Monday it run perfect then at belle vue it played up , it played up at rye house before the meeting but ran ok during the meeting ? we have sent one of them back to Germany and brought over a GM and that seized but we will sort this and be back in the points soon

Cov Comp has quite a few left but he is totally fed up with speedway as he is owed £s from last season by promotions who didn't pay their bills for the tyres and has been crapped on already by one promotion this season but hey ho the sport carries on like nothing is wrong

I agree the lists do need to be cut down but I believe the person in question is a major player in publicity for belle vue

that is terible if true and I also witnessed another long time belle vue person who is not an employee but I believe has and still does contribute to belle vue being questioned why he was on the list to get in ,sad

the guy worked for BMW but it isn't a BMW engine , we have been having various problems with the engines or more precisely the ignitions , we are working very hard trying to find out what the problem is , last Monday against Coventry we thought we had cracked the problem and the engine rode faultless all night and adam got 2 wins on it , after the meeting we tested a GM Adam had brought over from Poland and did 6 faultless laps , then onto belle vue , we warmed both bikes up and they never missed a beat , he went out in his first ride on the German engine and we chose the wrong gearing for the engine and were way under geared , it was the same gearing as the rest of the team but it didn't work for us , so we changed the gearing and went out for his 2nd ride , as soon as I pushed him off the misfire was there but he still managed a 2nd on a misfiring bike , for his 3rd ride he rode his GM which seized on the back straight of the first lap so had to go back onto German engine for 4th ride ,we tried everything we know to get to bottom of problem but to no avail , this is just an explanation of what is happening it's not an excuse and we know we have to put this right , it is hurting us as much as it's hurting the wolves supporters ,adam has brought another GM and we hope to be back in the points soon

Have to say the rider who I work for did 4 rides at rye house last week and the tyre was as good as done both sides

yea yea all this takes away the fun from the sport , life is dangerous that's the point why don't all the fans go and stand in another place instead of the stadium or start wearing a helmet cause someone someday might just get hit by a bike , Jesus what year did we forget how to live , just for the record in the past I have spent 2 years working on the center green at speedway meetings as medical cover and never gave a second thought or even felt slightly endangered by doing it , it can happen but so can getting blown up by some nutter and that isn't going to change the way I live my life either

yet another stupid rule in the already book of stupid rules , it doesn't add anything to speedway and doesn't bring one fan through the turnstiles , as for safety , speedway is dangerous

Vans , workshop, mechanics

Had a chat with Steve jenson in the bar after the meeting , came across as a very forward thinking guy and to me understands what speedway is .hope rye is a big success for him and last night was a good start

and where are they going to stand ?? The first bend is planned to be where the big mound of dirt is and the back gardens are about 100 yard behind it and got to squeeze in greyhound track too and the 3rd/4th are going to be car park , the back straight is where the wall is so that leaves the home straight and with any stand there will leave hardly any room for terraces , basically everthing has got to fit into the current carpark with the one bend going over where the big mound is , going to have to be a very condensed stadium , going to be s real test for Briggs's dirt deflectors , stopping flying shale from shot blasting residents windows, I really hope this stadium is going to happen but the extensive house building going on doesn't instal hope, I understand they say the stand is built elsewhere but who exactly is laying the track ????