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"We’ve seen how tricky a grippy track can be, even for experienced riders, and the last thing we want is anyone getting injured at the end of the season." so it is a rider safety approach which leaves a slick ,bald surface with a big blue groove on it, even though Zach Cook seemed to find plenty of grip in the infield

Sounds like the "Andrew Mountbatten Windsor defence " to me, contact after the conviction and sentence ,because he was an "honourable person"

Perhaps a move to the Pirates could be on the cards for Hook, Captain maybe, Captain Hook and the Pirates has a ring to it 🤣

I paid at Newport every home meeting, pleased to know I was subsidising the non payers under the Mallet guardianship ! I usually sat with the one time manager of the Mavericks conference side ( PT), and know he paid as well ,so there were at least 2 of us paying !

Joe who ?

Yes having spent my life working around motorcycle engines I was aware of that, the original post suggested the 500cc engines were "restricted to 250cc" by putting a sleeve in the inlet manifold, I was clearly stating this was not the case, it is a power restriction, not a cubic capacity restriction, it is much what the sports mopeds did to get around the law when a BHP and speed restriction was added to the law to prevent manufacturers making 70MPH "mopeds" by tacking pedals onto sports 50cc motorcycles , these were usually restricted by smaller inlets/carbs and restriction in the exhaust, easy to circumvent if you knew what you were doing !!!

The CC is worked out on bore and stroke, even if you sleeve down the inlet manifold the bike will still be a 500cc albeit with less power, you would need to sleeve the cylinder bore and fit a smaller piston to produce a 250cc engine, much like Matchless did in the day, the 350 Matchless and 500 matchless single had the same stroke, but the 350cc had a 69mm piston and the 500cc had a 82.5mm piston

Ah, more speedway racing with a sideshow of an autojumble of speedway/grass track stuff, might suit Dean, Allstar speedway and a few memorabilia stalls, but NOT and autojumble, should be a cracking weekend watching the uprights, and hopefully one or 2 stallholders will make their diesel and stall money back ? Here is an autojumble in case there is any confusion ( the rusty Ariel is sold !) Bing Videos

Guess that will be a local bike show then ? cannot find any link to it on any of the motorcycle meet calendars, facebook events calendars Autojumble & Vehicle shows in the UK | Facebook or autojumble events calendars, where it needs to be in order to let people know where and what it is, so does not seem to be very well advertised ? got any links ?

As an autojumble organiser of 37 years standing, it would be unlikely to work, you need easy motorway access, a decent catchment area and sufficient footfall to entice stallholders . Years ago the Swindon VMCC Moonrakers ran an autojumble in the car park of the Robins Stadium, absolutely ideal venue only a few miles from J15 of the M5 for Bristol/London, easy access from the Midlands on the A417 dual carriageway, it worked well for a couple of years, then a decision to move the event to Lotmead Industrial site led to it's demise. I do not know of another autojumble which has succeeded at a Speedway venue ?

Signed up to the "new forum" last night as thought it was the new version of this one ? and this one was gone forever bit of a fiddle getting into the new one, initially do not like the format, will be interesting to see if this one continues ?

I can remember the Will Beverage and Emil Lindqvist incident where Will attacked Emil outside the pit gate while he was still sat on his bike and broke his collar bone, meaning he could not take his place in the re-run could be me mis remembering a shovel for a broom !!

Cheers Vince, my son also Sam, cannot recall the incident, so either he was not there or my foggy memory is passed down to the next generation, must have been some other rider, but sure it happened, just got the wrong guy ? I can remember the volunteer trying to hang on to the shovel

Maybe, that's what happened to me as I have got older , still think you are a youngster and can fight the world !, but will see my son on Wednesday who regularly came with me and see how he remembers it 🤔 Think the shovel was a gesture/warning and no one actually got hit with it

Yes it was Sam ! got clattered off on bend 2 and picked up the shovel and was ready for the opposing rider when he came back round after the race was stopped .