THE DEAN MACHINE

Hope to see as many of you as possible next Saturday at the speedway show, a couple more teams and riders have joined and if nothing else is a good catch up, one other thing which I think sums up the mentality that is rife in the BSPL,a response to an email to the organisers from a promotion said”that time of year is time to sit back and forget about speedway” well when their supporters think it’s time to forget about speedway of which judging by their crowds most have who have they got to blame

Doyle and musielak, I like Dan but rather he stayed at belle vue

Musielak out of Ipswich, you would of thought he would be top of their list but obviously not

I’m not being naughty, I just find the whole situation between Dan and belle vue a bit estranged, he reluctantly joined them on the podium for the celebration, he kept referring to them as they and not we when interviewed about belle vue, he didn’t do the press conference after the meeting and didn’t go to the presentation night,it all just feels a bit off, maybe nothing but I’m not the only one who has noticed

Was Dan at the end of season do last night ?

Well the stocks were very successful at Sheffield last night with a crowd that dwarfs the speedway crowd, let’s hope the 2 sports can work along side each other like in previous years

Jason got the job at the time and I’m sure he did a good job to the best of his ability

If they had Put me in charge of the whole national league like i should of been 13 years ago and we would never have got in to the non entity it has become today, unfortunately thst ship has sailed for me now

I do agree with all this except one bit, the bit where he says if you brought in the people from the bspl it would be solved in a day or 2, they can’t agree what day it is when you put them in a room together with a calendar

I not implying anything and when I first heard the stocks are back I thought great news for the speedway as it gaurentees the future of the stadium but i wondered if anyone had heard anything else about the stocks coming back

Yet again a reactive statement put out instead of a proactive one, only put out because fans are talking about the AGM being cancelled, irrespective of what it says does it not occur to anyone running speedway to be proactive?? It really doesn’t give us much hope for the future

Let’s hope Sheffield are at the tapes for 2027

That’s what people think straightaway me included but what if it isn’t ?

The stocks are back at Sheffield next week, this might not be the good news that folk think it is ???

Former referee David Hughes has passed away, David was not just a ref but a huge personality in speedway and had many friends in the sport and was always up for a bit of a laugh often appearing on Mike Bennett’s anything can happen on the night videos and then one day just left speedway for good never returning to the sport. RIP

Mid October and every match at all levels has been completed,you can imagine the scene at bspl towers,the members going round giving a high five and whooping each other like it’s their biggest achievement in 30 years

Congratulations belle vue, feels a bit flat atmosphere not helped by the lack of fight from Sheffield but I guess if your belle vue fan it feels amazing, shout out to chase the ace for whipping the pensioners in the grand stand up

Class ride by Pickering and Klindt

Belle vue v Luke Killeen at the moment

Anders Rowe not ready at the start there, seemed to be stretching his fingers when tapes went up

Yes and that individual requirements is basically why a standard out the box engine wouldn’t really work in speedway, it is nothing new, when I was spannering for Adam skornicki he told me at a meeting in Sweden his team mate Jason crump lent him a bike cause adam’s had a problem, he said it was unridable because Adam likes a motor that revs hard but is unreactive and crumpy likes one that is lively and reactive also while at wolves Adam borrowed an engine off Freddie lindgren and didn't like it, riders have different preferences, different cams, different flywheels, what works for one doesn’t work for someone else, also an anomaly that occurs in all motor sport anywhere in the world is no 2 identical engines will ride the same, same batch, same castings,same parts and settings and one will always feel better than the other

95% of speedways power is in the 2 heads, the head on the engine and the head on the riders shoulders, get those 2 heads right and you have a winner, the only real difference in tuning is head porting, cams and internal parts like valves everything else like crank cases etc are just stock parts

Interesting watching Kurtz at Sheffield on Monday, heat 5 riding the dirt line and was at least quater of a lap infront yet his time was no faster than Carl stonehewer 26 years before and Zack cook’s win in heat 14 was the same time as Chris Morton 47 years ago, so the question is with all the money spent on tuning and engines, is it really worth it ?

Yes I was and Danny bird, I’m sure they weren’t random but they have to be seen to be random but I guess it’s not hard to get someone selected for a test just by selecting another random 3, there were a few who I thought would get caught a some point but strangely I never saw Richie worral being one as much as I thought he was a bellend

Towards the end of my career my mechanic worked for motad making silencers for the motorcycle industry, through getting done over by Norton they were on the brink of going out of business and decided to try make a speedway silencer to save the business, after we tossed about a few ideas about design they wanted a king silencer they could take apart to see what they were doing inside, I got hold of a silencer off a top elite league rider at the time and they cut it apart to find the baffles had been cut out, I don’t know how it was done but they weren’t there and there were no weld repairs on the chrome plating, we got another one to check it and that had baffles in,motad made an exact replica of a king and as much as we tried we couldn’t get the noise under the limit, motad opted for a different design and although they performed well especially on long track they couldn’t break the monopoly of king in speedway and they went out of business 6 months later,