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Not true. As I said, the maker demonstrated this. It is the old nylon type which melts.

They're all different; everybody's guessing!

I am told that the MDL (and SDL) will be going ahead with four 500cc riders this year.

I was told, by the suit maker, that it was an 11 year old girl. He illustrated the point by demonstrating that a hot soldering iron didn't melt or burn kevlar like nylon. Probably the ACU were more exercised about a young girl than an adult male rider!

Support class equates to MDL; however, they were only a second or so slower than the Open class, which contained some good NL riders. The point is, that Kean could only be replaced by an unattached 3 point rider anyway, which would generally be an MDL rider. These will only improve if they are given a chance in the NL.

Kevlar suits mostly protect against abrasion and burning - riders wear an 'armour suit' underneath to protect against impacts. I was told that the reason why the full kevlar suit was mandatory a couple of years ago was that a young girl crashed (in grassrack, I think) and was burned when the exhaust melted the nylon part of the suit into her skin.

No. I met a lad at an amateur race meeting yesterday though who would suit, Luke Whitehead.

As long as it's not the rider whose average is a big fat zero, but who Drury keeps encouraging ...

The post-2010 silencers have slowed them down a bit. No-one, not even top EL 'stars', have got near Jason Lyons' track record at Birmingham.

Scotchmans Hill IIRC!

Er ... the National League is NOT 'non-league' racing. What part of 'League' don't you understand? The fact is, that NL racing is just as good as that served up in the so-called 'Elite' league or whatever they call it now. Any Eastbourne or Birmingham fan will tell you that. Try not to be so closed-minded and give it a try.

You have to pay £1 to go on the stand at Kings Lynn: the only place where you can see over that bloody fence!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Birmingham (the holders) aren't competing, apparently, because they haven't got enough dates.

Where did you see this, Sings? I know that this is what is proposed, but I thought that it was being opposed. The final decision hasn't been announced as far as I can see, either on the Internet, or in today's Speedway Star.

And another one of him standing next to Soren Sjosten, who came up to his elbow ...

Well, Jack Smith at least was offered a deal "which he couldn't refuse". He may be regretting this now ...

How soon? It's been three weeks ...

Why is it the fault of the BSPA or SCB?

Well said, Sings!

See Post #77 See Post #77.

There's some cheerful sods on here ...

Don't you mean Adam Ellis? Or did you mean Eastbourne?

A rider who is, shall we say, not very good, was used several times as No. 8 at Birmingham last year. Then when Cradley turned up with rider replacement, he was No. 8 for them. This was too good an oppotunity to miss; I told the Crudleyites loudly that we had really fixed them ... when he was nominated in one race, the Heathens fans shouted "They are deliberately trying to lose!" and left!

No. 8s could only be used for Rider Replacement: they were NOT an extra reserve. However, if a team loses a reserve due to injury during a match, they can be in trouble if they don't have a No. 8. We saw that some years ago when Rye House had two riders withdrew injured; with R/R they only had 4 riders left. A No. 8 could have taken the R/R rides while the reserves covered for the others, but they didn't have one ...