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Steve schofield wasn't the tallest of riders.

Tom BACON , vital for pig's in blankets.

Also helps to have a good group of track volunteers to help with the air fence's that have to be put up and taken down before and after meetings - newcastle have a particular good group that I know of.

Nice to see positive things happening at newcastle , at least one club has news to spread , alot of other clubs are very quiet. ( Btw , I'm really pleased for archie's dad and Dave rowland on archie's great achievement)

He lives about ten miles outside of leicester now. Anyway , he's always been a fans favourite wherever he rides.

Close to home?

Looks like oxford to me

Adam always gives 100% , he's a great team player even if he's having a bad meeting , I really hope he keeps away from injury .

Are you sure it's not his dad that's the track curator at perry bar ? Unless Adam has recently been appointed that post too ? I might be wrong - I know Chris has done it for a couple of years now.

Robbo was but he now works for a company doing fire wall protection around the midlands.

Scott robson , I think he does loft conversations in and around sunderland.

Kevin little , car and van sales and garage in kelso

It just shows how much Paul wants Archie to achieve his speedway dream , I would imagine he ( possibly with some sponsors help ) spent a few quid on fuel etc doing those three meetings.

Yes , his brother has been with him a long time . He used to ride a few years back .

Correct on both , Tony swales always prepped a very good track - wonder wheel followed by some sort of wire fencing to scatter the shale material evenly . I don't think many tracks were as good.

Cleveland Park was located almost partly under the flyover on the south side of the water . I remember as a child seeing on a few occasions car's pulling up on the exit of the flyover to have a quick watch of a heat or two before the Copper's turned up to move them on lol. If you look for it now it's five-a-side football pitches ( the cage type).

At 11.36 into the footage the boarded up window to the left of the blue door is about as near to Charles's office as you could get ( I know his wife always sat in there) to the best of my knowledge. I know the management office was always in that area.

Probably due to the choice of scunthorpe being the only other option available in the current situation , and as far as I know Leicester has been available for hire seven days a week for quite a few years now. Obviously not available if any pre arranged event has filled the date already.

Lee smart retired for the second time in his career

I think pinny is referring to Michael Lee and Frank smart ?

Didn't Danny bird live somewhere like Penzance when he rode for Glasgow and fly up for meetings ?

I think your thinking of the wrong Stefan neilsen - the one on this video is the ginger one currently still riding . He can win races but I'd say he's not the most in control rider I've ever seen.

Robbo was very lucky to survive that crash , his bike was left hanging from the top of the stock car fence. He spent nearly four months in hospital .

I remember David bargh was half decent, the others mentioned so far haven't really made any of their opposition quake in their boots , it's strange that a country that has produced some legends seems to have run dry of talent. Maybe there are a few hidden gems waiting to Grace these shores one day .

Has there been any decent riders from new Zealand since mark thorpe ?