THE DEAN MACHINE

In the last could of years I’ve been racing a 1952 jap 4b in a 2 valve Jawa chassis and it’s an animal to ride, it maxes out about 6000 revs and because I come from a latter era( last of upright/laydown)it took some getting used to but you just can’t hold it flat out going into a turn because it just wants to go straight on, infact the first time I rode it, I just thought how different can it be and in the air fence I went😂today’s riders are peaking the engine at the end of the straight but instead of blipping the throttle to get into the corner they just holding it open, that bit is pretty much where speedway is actually faster today, they rest is the same

Regulate the engines to max 10,000 revs is the answer but don’t do it by just putting the rev limiter set at 10,000, it needs to be so the engines won’t get up to 10,000 revs, limit cam lift to 10mm,maybe smaller inlet ports or a 2 valve head which isn’t actually that costly, sealed engines could work with cooperation on all sides but only to ensure only homolgated parts can be used, no 2 riders have same engine characteristics so a standard one size fits all wouldn’t work, gearing also wouldn’t work because although they may use a similar ratio they all use different configurations to achieve it, if you look at someone like MJJ he uses really small back sprockets probably in high 40s but will be using 13 on countershaft to achieve it but it will still be same ratio as others or alternatively chuck a load of dirt on every track and tell the riders to man the f up and get on with it, they will soon plum for softer engines

Back in the day if you put your leg over the bike it meant you were pretty much gaurenteed to put your leg over the other meaning 😂

As I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions for god knows how many years with evidence of it, bikes today are in relative speed no faster than they were 40 years ago, what is considerably faster is the speed of the back wheel to the speed of the bike, when the bike is doing 50-60mph the back wheel is doing 80-100mph, hence the back tyres wear out in 5mins and the front tyre will last a season, it has been a problem for years but nobody especially riders and tuners want it addressed

To be fair Freddie’s crash wasn’t caused by speed or the track or the tyres , rew moved out and Freddie didnt shut off and ran out of room and hit the fence by the start gate, not sure if Freddie thought he would bounce off the kick board as seems to be the norm these days or he misjudged how close he was to the kick board, he was excluded as the cause of the crash, anyway speedy recovery Freddie

I’ve watched all of these and his is one of the only speedway ones I can watch, it was interesting to watch the latest one to compare how bike things/prices have changed since I retired which was 15 years ago, somethings never change and some of the BS that went on back then still goes on today 😂 but in the grand scheme of things apart from clutches and their maintenance nothing has really changed since the 80s but it does cost a hell of a lot more today

I just can’t I’ve been using verbs and exclamation marks ever since I could read and I still do today, the Mrs ignoring me daily shows how much I would miss it if I just walked away

Well another day and another no official press release from either ignore or . just BSF posting gossip about it, good job I posted about the ignore v . Yesterday otherwise mayhem could have happened, fans of . will be getting out of the habit and turning to numbers as their chosen pastime

They also running at wheel to bike speed almost the same, speedway has around 30% difference between wheel and bike speed

If michellsen and lambert decide to come to the party Toruń could be in with a shout

Will we see the second shock of the day

Excellent win for leszno, Lublin could point to losing lindgren but I think they should be looking at vaculik, not even on the pace in last couple of rides

Ooooh it’s game on

They said that last season and they lost to Toruń

Zmarzlik’s straight line speed is ridiculous, clearly gone for some small sprockets for long range speed

Vaculik doesn’t seem to be the force he was a couple of years back

Just part of the game, I do feel sometimes the younger riders are told he doesn’t pass you no matter what

Pawlicki on first corner there knew he had missed it and just rammed woryna ,didnt work but ffs

What’s the rule regarding replacing lindgren for rest of meeting

Don’t crash then

Pretty sure me replying yes means that ?

Nasty one for lindgren, rew moves out but lindgren just doesn’t seem to see it coming and shut off

Yes

Better race track, not as scary to ride

Brilliant ride by cook