THE DEAN MACHINE

Congratulations to Redcar, well deserved

I think the current rev limiter is set at 12,500, on track with the drag of the wheel they rev to about 10-11000 at most British tracks,at the start line without the drag of the wheel they rev to about 12,000 but sometimes you can hear some riders hit the limiter, without the limiter they would probably hit 13,500 revs

The sport is in a real mess at the moment

3 riders of the modern era that stand out are zmarzlik who rides like he is stretching his throttle cables but very tidy and smooth, sayfutinow who rides with his body very upright on the bike even at the start gate and bewley who you can tell he has a motox background because the way he rides the bottom of the fence like a berm in motox

Yes

He said he had a spin last year in Queensland for the first time since he retired and it was a disaster

Jamie habbin messaged me a few weeks back about a bike I was selling and he was surprised I remembered he was the pink panther saying that was a lifetime ago

I keep seeing various fights at ice hockey matches, so I asked some ice hockey fans do the players get fined or get any form of ban if they fight and the reply was no it’s practically encouraged, although if you have too many fights you gets points and then get a match ban, so why do we take such a pussyfooted approach to any kind of handbags

I’m riding something better than a Wessie now, I’m riding a 1952 jap 4B, I will be having a blast up in those hills soon

I agree with this, running a league is not really their thing but running something like the GP is but there are a couple of things which are odd like Redknapp asking Hearn and doing the publicity pics and then 3 of the shareholders in speedway futures Ltd are sport management people including ex motox rider Jamie Dobb, why ? Do they know something is coming ?

If people think a speedway track is something they don’t want there is a new menace coming down the road for green belt land and that is solar battery facilities and there is one being proposed about 5 miles from the proposed cradley track although it does fall under another council and they are going to spring up all over the place over the next 5 years ruining the green landscape

Non except the track, maybe changing rooms as a permanent building, the rest will be containers for storing equipment, it will look similar to Workington which to anyone who has been there looks like a country park with a track in the middle, you won’t see it off the road and wouldn’t know it was there, no it’s not straightforward and the council certainly aren’t making it straightforward

Recorded another podcast tonight should be out Friday,,listen to our points and views,agree ? Disagree?

It’s not Dudley council so it’s not even something they had 40 years ago

Oh sorry, it’s today’s paper, Harry Redknapp asking Barry Hearn to make speedway great again

Yes but that’s not an issue for a sports facility and it’s private land

Hmmmm https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bbty2aVe4/?

Cradley heath was known worldwide for 2 things, man hole covers and the speedway and both of those have gone,sadly if you live in cradley and you were born after 1995 you would have no idea just how much they put cradley heath on the map and it’s that level of thinking that speedway is up against

It could unfortunately councils couldn’t care less about cradley or speedway

I can’t say what actually happened at the meeting but in a nutshell cradley have to convince the council that speedway is the right thing for the area where it is being proposed, that sounds straightforward to me and you but not to non speedway people

I like the other main two but some of the younger ones especially on 11 sport seem abit out of place

Ok I will reword it for you, she has been in a relationship with them, is that better for you? Adrian miedzinski being the last speedway rider but I believe she married someone else now

Well she been to bed with a few of them 😉

I don’t have a problem with any of them although I’d admit kelvin does seem to be making more and more mistakes, I dislike a couple of BSNs presenters more but they don’t detract from the overall product, for me TNT just comes across like an amatuer film crew that have no idea how speedway ticks and they don’t actually want to be there, maybe it’s because BSN actually come from within the sport, most have been through a fence or two and understand how the sport ticks where Tatum and Louis have to put their speedway perspective through someone who has gone through media training and wouldn’t know a speedway bike from a biscuit tin, it happens in all walks of life sadly and in the case of TNT it shows

I still get a buzz no matter which side of the fence I’m on, I gave up being a spannerman because I got a bit fed up with it, I did it a lot of years often alongside racing myself but I am a bit fussy who I work for and have turned down a few, not because I don’t like them but because I just didn’t think we would click as a working team but I have filled in for a couple of riders as one offs