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National League riders are obliged by the promoters to have two bikes, vans etc. As for F2, two valve engines or whatever: the question is, who is going to pay for them? You are in a chicken and egg situation, as beginners start with second-hand equipment, but ther is no s/h F2 or fancy engines available for them to buy! A pre-used Jawa bike will cost about £1000 or a GM, £1500, as opposed to £5000 just for a new engine. It just isn't on. As for fallers: of course beginners are going to fall, but any standard bike is going to throw the rider off if he mishandles it. I spent five years helping a rider (who got to MDL level); the GM bike he bought turned out to have an Ashtech engine, GP standard. Although he was faster than most of his contemporaries, he actually never dared to open the throttle fully! Other beginners are probably the same.

Or Weymouth, Exeter or Long Eaton?

Big trouble ... I usually park outside the tile warehouse on the A34, and go round the block via Church Road on my way home (being too tight to pay for parking at the stadium).

On the other hand, we will be rebuilding Hadrian's Wall, and reviving the law which said that Scots could be shot on sight.

Are those actually Scots? I thought that Rothery was a Cumbrian, and Flint a Nothumbrian. They don't sound Scottish!

I quote: Almost finalised . Apologises for delay but Peter and David been busy moving their business to a factory and we will have it sorted fully in next few days .

Hardly: £150 for a round of golf? £40 (cheap seats) for a football match? Speedway is dirt cheap.

This question has been answered by Laurence Rogers in the Birmingham forum.

The definition of 'contaminated waste' is fairly wide. The same thing happened at Perry Barr stadium when the track was built in 2007: the soil was said to be 'contaminated' and could not be removed from the site. It was piled up to one side; this is what the embankment by the second bend is. Contrariwise, when I was a child (many years ago ) there was a banking all of the way round the track; this was apparently demolished and sold for hardcore! A long time ago ...

Houses are nowhere near: just an industrial estate. There are far more housing near to Cowley stadium.

The same with Birmingham some years ago.

I don't know: last season, he was a breath of fresh air, and was always worth watching. I know that people claim that he is unreliable, but he wasn't for us. We shall see.

We're optimists, except the Wolves/Cradley person, but that's to be expected

Has Paul Starke signed for anyone yet? He is a Midlander.

What is his CL average? Just checked: 2.86.

No Ellis next year; he's not doing the CL allegedly. It's 'two new names', probably a 7 and a 3 point riders at a guess.

Thomsen earned another try next year with his scoring in the last couple of matches: he won heat 1. Judging by Laurence Rogers' comments in the Speedway Star last week, I think that we may be seeing him again next year. Agetoft could ride well, but couldn't do the starts most of the time.

They were both dropped because they were simply not performing. After losing all of the first six matches, the Birmingham promotion had to do something.

Why not?

Most of them.

I park outside the tile warehouse on the Walsall Road; plenty of room there.

Season ticket holders are very much at the back of the queue: when Birmingham went bust in 2014, I had a ST, but when the company had been wound up, it turned out that the administrators hung on to most of the cash, so we got nothing.

He made himself very unpopular at Birmingham by not trying!

Riders just go for the cheapest one! We had a Prodrive silencer at one time; this was much better quality than the most common type, but cost twice as much so noone bought them! Before you ask, they were selling them off cheap as remaindered stock.

This isn't anything new; I remember in about 1980, the Brummies scored a 5-1 with two sixteen year olds: Neil Evitts was one. Third place was another 16 year old! The one at the back must have felt old ... this was in the 1st Division.