THE DEAN MACHINE

Magic Hand getting caught in mudgaurd there

Weather is playing havoc with even the polish tv

Some ruts appearing around the inside

I went to see guns n roses there, it’s a vast stadium

Hope I’m wrong but that track looks soft and spongy

They have him in line up ?

Vast stadium to fill,not sure how one sport make it pay, anyway let’s hope it’s a decent meeting

The young lady on BSN does seem like a bit box ticking exercise and a bit cringey but my son thinks she is wonderful but that’s more about his hormones than her speedway presenting talents

BSN captures the essence of speedway and listening to Greg Blair is like sitting in the van with him on the way to the meeting,it’s fantastic,I don’t mind abi and her enthusiasm is to be applauded but Eurosport’s coverage is poor and they treat speedway like they don’t really understand the sport,which they probably don’t often missing the action and the less said about the onboard camera the better,Tatum, Louis and Nichols are ok but they don’t capture the in the moment element that speedway is, it’s rawness,down to earth nature,a working man’s sport, there is a saying in motorsport “all the gear no idea” Eurosport should have this as their moto, they have earned it, commentary is subjective, some you like some you don’t but that’s not really the problem with Eurosport

Like to see Bydgoszcz back in the extraleague but I think rybnik will be winners over 2 legs

That’s not how riders think, take Exeter back in the day, the home riders loved it because everyone else hated it so the home riders adapt to it and get a big pay day every week and that’s how riders think, a good way to further your career in speedway is pick a track you hate and join the team and tell everyone who comes how bad the track is

I’m talking about real time action,at the time of the crash it was a close race at the back but the cameras are focused on the front 2 that are spread out, they do this all the time, they are so amateurish, BSN are far better on a fraction of the cost, BSN capture the essence of speedway, Eurosport are like cable network channel from the 90s

Well done belle vue and special mention to anti voulas who’s points over 2 legs don’t justify the effort he put in

If you don’t race you will never understand a riders mentality, you only have to listen to woffinden’s interview to see they will sacrifice safety equipment for lightness because its win at all costs and it’s the same with this track they might moan but they love a dirt line because it makes you go faster and ultimately wins races

Because ultimately riders want it

No more dangerous than any other track,what they should have done is take the dirt line away

Eurosport frustrates the hell out of me, everything about it is just amateur, constantly missing the action and even missed the crash there

Sheffield look second best here on their own track

Yes I got on with everyone at Berwick,,great lads and great supporters including moggo and his Mrs sue, I loved it at Berwick

It’s better on back straight

Crowd is poor for a semi final against Sheffield

I believe it’s habit unless either an engine or a frame has been changed but after one race that should be settled in place anyway but there have been some strange practices over the years like running with not tight engine/frame bolts so getting the bike to flex more or variable headstocks to make the wheels out of line to make the bike drive, most riders have their little odd things they do

The main difference in the tuners is the porting of the heads and the internal parts they use but they all have a set of flywheels, a conrod a piston and 4valves and a cam and apart from sizes and setting there isn’t a lot you can do

With the exception of hydraulic valves in some engines there is nothing in a modern GM that wasn’t in a 1930 jap,but the quality of the parts are vastly improved, all the speed/tuning is in the head of the engine, lots of bullsH#t but no more than other sports

Over sized engines are rare these days, mainly because the tuners would literally lose their whole business by making an engine oversize for a rider and in the uk with the exception of belle vue you wouldn’t gain an advantage by having an oversized engine,if you went to a track like lakeside you might possibly run an undersized engine,carbs are easily checked and again not really in blixt interest to make oversize carbs although he does make a 38mm version for grasstrack but as I said easily checked, they did away with the silencer cheating by making a hole in the silencer which is what the cheats were doing, fuel is open to cheating but something like nitro makes they eyes run of anybody around the bike, there were some who dipped their filters in nitro but they started checking filters by swiping them, I think on the whole riders are just looking for an edge within the rules which to be honest are quite simple, I’m sure there will always be some but they usually raise suspicion and checks randomly begin, ignitions are varied and there was a bit of suspicion about the karger box but as I posted elsewhere zmarzlik doesn’t use them and he is the best in the world, speedway like most Motorsports is full of fads, someone tries something, wins a meeting and then the whole of the sport jumps on the bandwagon and then they find out it didn’t really work but psychologically it gave that rider the edge he needed, the jhr rear frames seem to be the latest fad, do they work ? Well zmarzlik brought 20 of them last month and he back on Jawa or Stuha,,lindgren uses them and he was poor at vojens so do they work ?