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So where would you suggest a good place to build the new Belle Vue Speedway stadium. With Manchester City Council putting in a lot of funding can't see the wanting it in London and most Aces fans would never get there on a Friday anyway. FFS the NSS is just a name, and a pretty apt one at that as it will be the best appointed, purpose built speedway facility in the country. It is primarily the new "Home of the Aces"

Aces v Swindon Coventry V Poole Coventry and the Aces at home on Monday 14th

Both Peterborough and Kings Lynn are north of Birmingham so why include them in the south. By your reckoning there are a 20 or so tracks in the north if you include ones that are not in the north

You don't need to be a Michelin starred chef to know when something tastes horrible

That is a dreadful website. It looks like a schoolkids first effort into web design

That is a lesson in how to lose any credibility you had and destroy the respect anyone may have had for you. I am sure a few of those you have just seen fit to insult will be (probably now ex) customers of retro speedway

You cant have the bike parked in a very deep rut, it will bottom out on the exhaust so the rider either has to start from a different part of the track or move to the back of the rut

Aces first

1979 Vic Harding 1979 Nigel Wasley 1981 Tony Sanford 1982 Denny Pyeatt 1982 Brett Alderton 1983 Mick Spiers 1983 Craig Featherby 1983 Mike Walsh 8 at least, dont think I missed anyone off

Lots of permutations yet 1 Poole 25 10 1 1 4 2 0 4 3 1224 1018 57 2 Coventry 24 8 0 3 4 2 2 2 3 1084 1023 52 3 Swindon 24 11 0 2 4 0 0 2 5 1114 1056 51 4 Belle Vue 27 12 1 1 1 1 1 3 7 1268 1187 49 5 King's Lynn 26 12 0 1 2 1 0 1 9 1195 1162 48 6 Wolverhampton 26 8 0 4 0 1 0 1 12 1088 1282 28 7 Lakeside 27 7 1 6 1 0 0 1 11 1169 1256 27 8 Leicester 25 7 0 6 0 1 0 1 10 1052 1210 25 But if you win your last 2 matches you are in regardless what the Aces do at Wolves, but if you lose tonight yo need to make sure you get the Swindon home match in and even then if the Aces draw at Wolves you would lose on race points anyway Before the cut off Swindon have Cov home and away and an away trip to poole, they need 3 points from those to be certain

He won't even know what it is. It will just be (yet another) ill informed, zero researched rant.

Home loss by any amount of points = 0 Home draw = 1 Home win by any amount of points = 3 Away loss by 7 points or more = 0 Away loss by 6 points or less = 1 Away draw = 2 Away win by between 1 and 6 points = 3 Away win by 7 points or more = 4

To be honest I think the Aces will make the play offs now. Certainly dont see Kings Lynn winning at Poole. Even if the beat Swindon at home it only gives them 51 so a draw for the Aces at Wolves would see them through on race points and they should win there anyway.

I had the same problem over here. I checked the post Saturday morning and there was no letter from Eurosport telling me the GP was on that evening I checked my e mails every hour but again nothing, I waited in all day in case Eurosport or BSI sent someone round personally to tell me it was on but nothing. In the end I had to do like you and look through the channel guide to find out the time and place it was on, totally unprofessional if you ask me

You know perfectly well they will. You never questioned it when the Aces had double headers. Correct, usually is the case with a double header

Why do you respond to him Steve. Have you not noticed hardly anyone responds to him anymore, they just take him for the idiot he is and ignore his posts. Dont respond and he will go away and take his half witted posts with him

You should, it is what most do. There is little value arguing with a fool

No need to apologize. Very few people even read your crap, even fewer take any notice of it. That is number 24 of the 325 reasons on the list of why drop a cog is considered a pr!ck

But that is not the issue, as I have said repeatedly. Anyone with an ounce of advertising nous could fill a stadium once, even just using the free entry route. The thing is once they are in they must have an evening that tempts them to come back at the usual cost, be that a fiver, tenner or whatever. Lakeside had 5000 for the free entry, lots were of course existing fans, but they are now back to one man and a dog. Worse still you will never get another chance with any of those that came and thought it was crap, people may come once based on what you tell them but show them a poor product and you will never get another chance. If the product is hemorrhaging existing customers, customers who have been with you for decades with an obvious affinity for the sport but no longer want to go what chance of keeping the casual observer. Make it an evening worth watching, not just the racing, thats only a small part of it, the whole package needs to be vibrant. Then on a SKY night let people in for a fiver maybe and pack the place. Make sure everyone there has a good night, it will look like a good night to the TV viewers and they may be tempted along. At the moment if you happen to channel hop to the speedway on SKY it just screams "nothing to see here, keep moving"

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There is nothing well put about it, it is just more ramblings from fans who don't understand speedway bikes liked by other fans who know less. Lay downs are not the issue in the slightest, they do in fact make the bike much easier (and safer to ride) Stick a modern short stroke motor in an upright frame and the thing would be even more difficult on a patchy track. In essence the main benefit of the lay down arrangement is lower the centre of gravity which make cornering easier.

Ah, apologies. I (wrongly) thought you were suggesting I had missed out the effect of track surfaces on an engine set up. I realise now you meant with regard to safety,the reference to fences should have been my clue!!!!!!

FFS I wasn't trying to do a detailed explanation of bike set up, just trying to give Shawn a basic grasp

Really speedway is pretty unique in the Motorsport world. In most Motorsport (motox/rallying maybe slightly excepted) the faster the driven wheel(s) spins the faster you go. With speedway over 50% of that wheel spin is not transferred directly to forward motion. Of course the trick is getting all the above factors, and more, to combine to give maximum purchase on any given track on any given day. Factor in that things like air temp and even altitude can affect these things then you see getting everything right can be a bit of a task (or a lucky guess)

Makes the back wheel more (or less) inclined to slide. On a smaller, heavier track you want to assist the broadside, on a bigger, slicker one you want to arrest it a touch