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THE DEAN MACHINE

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  1. In Poland and in the GPS you are allowed a new tyre every race they are now using tubeless tyres (using moose’s I assume) yet more expense to go the same speed
  2. I have in my workshop a short stroke GM with 93mm piston, I can’t imagine how hard that would be to ride in a British track but clearly someone did, thing is there are ex riders out there who speak up about engines but get shot down by the current riders, saying things like “you can’t stop progress” but it isn’t progress , the sport is paying more to stand still or even go backwards, there could well of been a faulty batch of tyres yesterday but the tyre problem has been around for years but we plod on putting a plaster over gapping wounds, it breaks my heart what this sport has become and it has become unnecessarily
  3. It won’t happen because there is no discipline in the mechanical side of the sport, the riders rule the sport, until that changes nothing changes
  4. And nobody is talking about the elephant in the room and it’s been in the room for years ,in the last 15-20 years the revs on a speedway bike have increased dramatically, tyres can’t cope, valves springs can’t cope, tracks can’t cope, nothing has been achieved racing wise or cost wise and safety wise has gone backwards, the only ones to benefit are the tuners and even they will tell you they don’t make enough, it is a misconception that speedway is faster now, it isn’t, the bikes are traveling at roughly the same speed as the upright days, the difference is the speed of the spinning wheel has increased hugely and you run a tyre spinning at that speed with around 6psi what the hell do you expect, yes mitas were a better tyre than anlas but there isn’t a tyre manufacturer in the world that could produce a tyre that wouldn’t get ripped to shreds on a current speedway bike, will speedway learn from its mistakes ? I doubt it
  5. You will see it pumping the oil through the glass when bike is running, if you are still unsure unscrew the banjo that is top of oil pipe to head, oil should come out, don’t do it for long though, do you have reason to think it’s not working ?
  6. Sadly this is much much worse than speedway, it could be as bad as starving or freezing to death
  7. Subjective view I know but Marcella reminds me of a Eurovision Song Contest presenter and is annoying as hell
  8. I wouldn’t be so sure, the FIM are already taking about it, and laguta has been posting some things lately, sayfutinov seems to have disappeared of the face of the earth
  9. If laguta gets back in so will sayfutinov, then will be only 3 wildcards and you would of thought it would be 7th, 8th, 9th
  10. Doyle’s last 2 rounds have been confidence sapping, been on the deck 4 times and 2 tape offences and bikes lacking speed
  11. Yes many times, had a big crash there in 1997 and hated it after that
  12. That statement should have the words “finish a race” at the end
  13. Zmarzlik is IMO one of the greatest riders ever to grace our sport, he is just amazing to watch
  14. Kenyan rew has been impressive so far but he has been mixing it when called up to the world stage, think he could be the next top Aussie
  15. That’s how I heard about it, it was on planet rock a few times
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