Poole 2026

[TracksideView]

9 hours ago, foreverblue said:

Not sure riders worry about where their teams are located, Harris rides for Kings Lynn and Glasgow and lives in Rugby.

Flight availability/travel to Poland/Europe are far more restrictive from Glasgow than Poole, riders have said that themselves.

[foreverblue]

26 minutes ago, TracksideView said:

Flight availability/travel to Poland/Europe are far more restrictive from Glasgow than Poole, riders have said that themselves.

Really? Would have thought easier from Glasgow. 

[SteveLyric2]

22 hours ago, Neila said:

Regarding the young riders, a lot of teams have a NDL team or a junior team being ran in the Northern or midland junior league, thus helping local youngsters start and progress through the levels of the sport. But it appears Poole don't have this, then use ££s to encourage the youngsters to join them. 

Even when Poole put the youngsters meeting on last season Paul starke was riding in the event 🤔

Name any club that has an NDL or NDT team racing midweek? They all mainly race at weekends when its easier for young riders to travel. Also clubs need to have full access to their stadium, which Poole don't have.

Edited 7 hours ago by SteveLyric2

[Gavan]

1 hour ago, PotteringAround said:

When did I say you weren't entitled to disagree?  

I totally respect your right to be wrong.   (even about Screen's age).

I don't count Loram as a genuine world champion.   Won the world title without winning a single G.P. in a year when there were only 6 rounds with a silly format which mainly required finishing 2nd in a couple of races.

I rate Screen as a far more naturally talented rider who could have won real world titles with a little more dedication.

Thats a daft statement to make he was a deserving world champion he scored the most points over the series 

You can take away some of Rickardssons titles then when he would have gate 1 followed by gate 1 and then gate one and then first pick

[lewy]

12 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Name any club that has an NDL or NDT team racing midweek? They all race at weekends when its easier for young riders to travel. Also clubs need to have full access to their stadium, which Poole don't have.

Plymouth had NDT meeting on Tuesday night last season. 

Edited 22 hours ago by lewy

[Neila]

1 hour ago, TracksideView said:

Flight availability/travel to Poland/Europe are far more restrictive from Glasgow than Poole, riders have said that themselves.

Didn't know Poole had an airport 😝

[SteveLyric2]

13 minutes ago, lewy said:

Plymouth had NDT meeting on Tuesday night last season. 

Read my post fully....because they have unrestricted access to the Coliseum.

[lewy]

6 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Read my post fully....because they have unrestricted access to the Coliseum.

No plymouth have planning constraints for holding meetings, poole had plenty of free Wednesday nights

[Neila]

2 minutes ago, lewy said:

No plymouth have planning constraints for holding meetings, poole had plenty of free Wednesday nights

Calm down mate, these lot are not worth it 😁

[Bagpuss]

1 hour ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Read my post fully....because they have unrestricted access to the Coliseum.

You also said 'they all race at weekends' when Lynn also rode in midweek (stadium point accepted).

[Essex]

9 hours ago, proud panther said:

Michael Lee was brilliant when he started at 16.

I was just thinking the same and say it quietly he rode for yes the team with the poor track before the Ford's were about.

[szkocjasid]

13 hours ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Name any club that has an NDL or NDT team racing midweek? They all race at weekends when its easier for young riders to travel. Also clubs need to have full access to their stadium, which Poole don't have.

Apart from Plymouth on Tuesdays, Birmingham raced on Mondays, plus Sheffield raced on a Monday & Wednesday.

[therefused]

24 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

Apart from Plymouth on Tuesdays, Birmingham raced on Mondays, plus Sheffield raced on a Monday & Wednesday.

Kings Lynn too (already mentioned). Poole have done virtually nothing in helping young british riders over the years. 

Edited 9 hours ago by therefused

[YeOldPitGate]

17 hours ago, Gavan said:

No you are wrong … Mark rode for Hackney in the top league in 1987

Hackney dropped down in 1988 and Mark dropped down with them 

In 1989 the Hackney promotion moved to Ipswich and Mark Chris and Moggo went as well

Mark then moved to Kings Lynn in 1990 as a reserve … we went to his first meeting at home to Reading where Mark top scored with 19 I believe from 7 rides …. The only Reading rider to beat him was their new number 7…. Todd Wiltshire 

I think your right again from memory Hackney were backed by Terry Russell they were destroying the old second division they looked to move up and got no help from anyone (sounds familiar) other than getting Simmo , they got smashed for a season then dropped back down taking Simmo with them .

They had Andy Galvin at the time who was second division top gun but he had a bad injury a few years later that pretty much put paid to his chances of progressing further.

I'm 56 now and would have been 17 or 18 at the time so having to trawl the memory banks so I could be 50% off with the above.

[YeOldPitGate]

15 hours ago, PotteringAround said:

When did I say you weren't entitled to disagree?  

I totally respect your right to be wrong.   (even about Screen's age).

I don't count Loram as a genuine world champion.   Won the world title without winning a single G.P. in a year when there were only 6 rounds with a silly format which mainly required finishing 2nd in a couple of races.

I rate Screen as a far more naturally talented rider who could have won real world titles with a little more dedication.

In my opinion they were both brilliant natural talents and great to watch on a bike, a similar argument would be when I was still going Lynn signed Henka I think the same year Ippo possibly got T Rick now for two seasons I thought Henka was a better more talented rider than Tony but as mentioned i stopped going in 1992 and past that point Tony ended up being a six time world champion.

Henka is probably the most naturally talented rider i ever saw on a bike but possibly similar to Screeny he just didn't have that last 10% dedication to make it to the very top of the pile despite both having masses of natural talent.

One interview that always resonated with me was Sam Ermolenko saying "I feel I have reached that level now when the pressure is really on i can beat anyone" and a week later I remember him lining up against Hans Nielson possibly a world team cup event at coventry and that might have been the year when Han's only dropped six or so points all season , Sam trapped and although Han's was faster he had the calm head and track craft to keep the Main Dane behind him.

Apologies if these years/stats are slightly out as I say i'm going back a long time ago but they were great times how like most of us I would dearly love to travel back in time and be there again.

[foreverblue]

20 minutes ago, therefused said:

Kings Lynn too (already mentioned). Poole have done virtually nothing in helping young british riders over the years. 

Not sure Kings Lynn can claim to have done much in helping young british riders unless you feel a couple of national trophy meetings is a massive help.

[therefused]

13 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Not sure Kings Lynn can claim to have done much in helping young british riders unless you feel a couple of national trophy meetings is a massive help.

I don’t know why you keep mentioning kings Lynn on a Poole thread, very odd. 

[foreverblue]

56 minutes ago, therefused said:

I don’t know why you keep mentioning kings Lynn on a Poole thread, very odd. 

Because you keep mentioning them. If you noticed in was in reply to your post where you mentioned Kings Lynn!

Edited 7 hours ago by foreverblue

[Neila]

Wishing friends and foes on here a very merry Christmas 🎄 

[foreverblue]

13 minutes ago, Neila said:

Wishing friends and foes on here a very merry Christmas 🎄 

Mainly your foes on this thread!! Happy Christmas everyone.