stevehone

unfortunately, i don't think it's as cut and dried as you make out

actually, i think i need to adjust this a bit .. will the OTHER PROMOTERS allow a track to maybe run some bumper meetings and cream off more than others?

not a bad idea, but will the SCB allow a track to maybe run some bumper meetings and cream off more than others?

the only way i can see the sport in this country surviving. it's time to mix new ideas with things that worked in the past, look at successes and failures over the years and cherrypick what worked. it's also blatantly obvious that the crowd levels here and the lack of mainstream sponsors can't support the rider demands, the time is now right to start from the bottom and work upwards from there.

the 500 chairs are good to watch too, Mitch Godden among others would probably jump at the chance to have regular racing.

unfortunately, i have to agree with this

the BIGGEST problem speedway has, it needs cooperation and unity from ALL promoters, and there's why nothing gets done

i'm certainly not a fan of bangers, but look at the crowds they get, what are they doing right that speedway isn't??

people that run the speedway should always be looking at other sports and see what it is that attracts supporters. why do bangers get 3 - 4000+ for a meeting and people walk away at the end having had a good night for example? the time now is right to have a complete rethink over how the sport in this country is run and presented, tried and tested is obviously not working but that's the fall-back every single season.

fills Kings Lynn, CONSIDERABLY more than speedway

maybe it's time to make speedway an amateur sport

i had a go at speedway, THAT affected my livelihood

he was on Kasprzak's team for a while

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born in Wimbledon and lived Raynes Park, New Malden, and Chessington while i rode but despite going for a chat with Maido during my lunch breaks from work at Copper Mill Lane, i never fancied riding for Wimbledon, i knew too many people and that made me conscious of being under those lights. anyway, i had offers off Arena Essex & Canterbury in '86 and not Wimbledon, i didn't get on with Eddie James (Wimbledon Jrs manager) for some reason.

why next year, what about now? never know, he might feel with how it's going in Poland he has to be 100% with that? or, he might be 'asked' not to ride by his Polish club good luck to him i say, he's proving to some of last season's doubters that he does have the talent

i was on the minibus the night this happened

Nicki P is going home between Polish meetings, he gets scanned for the lurgy each time he returns and that's that

i think you're just seeing a rider at the top of his game in Madsen. a MASSIVE part of speedway is confidence, and everyone has their limits to how far they will push. even that very tiny 100th of a second faster into a turn and that adds up over 4 laps. some go that extra because of what's in their head. **edit - and after watching Troy Batchelor last week, my first thought was that his partner is pregnant. Troy is a good rider, you don't just drop like that. i think when he comes to terms with riding while his partner is pregnant, he'll be scoring points again, but he'll need to ride. seen it with plenty of riders, i'm not going to name any more, but has a baby on the way/had a baby, and form dips pretty hard. confidence

needs to be run very much along the lines of IOW and the holiday makers they target

sad news - got to know Maurice (and Wally) when i was at Canterbury

picking up lockdown worth of Star's to read through later off my dad

we're rolling our 7 tickets over, we still love going there

before they closed the back straight etc i always sat on the wooden steps on exit of bend 2, then would wander round and see Mr Brown and the 1st bend loonies. away trips on the coach were ok but we did a little 'breakaway' minibus that was always fun my cousin used to sit with Mrs Rising in the grandstand so always paid a visit to the grandstand too, i don't know how i got to see all the racing with all the meeting up with people

agree!! the place right at the end of the grandstand next to the first bend