THE DEAN MACHINE

IMO the basics are scrapping doubling up / down and reintroducing real team speedway , not this mercenary driven free for all we currently have and admission costs reduced , until these are addressed I don't think we will ever begin to recover , we have to dangle a temptation carrot to the wider public, I keep seeing riders tweets about what's in this agm for them ? What about the fans ?

one club offered me £275 a week (some are on more)march to October to mechanic for one of their riders , I turned it down as I wasn't really interested in doing it , don't really have the time and if I'm honest I can't stand the rider but the club has got mechanics on the pay roll

in theory the rev limiter is the best idea but the thought of hitting the limiter mid turn and for a second the bike misfires and the back wheel grabs and throws you forward and at that point your revs come under the limit so you get 100% revs back it's is a disaster waiting to happen , it works in other motorsports cause they are 100% drive so when you hit limiter you just can't go faster but speedway needs the wheel spin , whatever the idea the engine needs not to able to reach whatever limit , not be able to reach it and then trigger the limiter

I don't know if they would cheaper you would have to ask gerhard about that , there is part of me that wants to make a comeback at NL level on a weslake to see if it's possible to be competitive on a 30 year old bike , just to show that costs are over hyped at that level but then my brain kicks in and I go back to my pipe and slippers

the GTR is possibly the answer for the premier and elite league but it must stay a GTR and have no other parts or tuning allowed but I think at £5000 a go it is a bridge to far for the national league , I was talking to a national league rider last Sunday who had borrowed one for the day , I asked him is this the future for you and his reply was "not at £5000 it isn't ", I was thinking about the second hand market for these engines but that depended on the price of the parts

this is the point I made in other posts , the riders and the tuners are the ones controlling the sport , when I make the sort of posts usually on Facebook I get stick from riders and if I make the point to someone from the Bspa I get told these things get done to help the rider but neither mention or even seem to give a damn about the fans and contrary to the belief of many in the sport the fans are the ones that matter the most , I would love the sport to be covered in Money and every rider to be paid a fortune but unfortunately it isn't and that's the fact of it , yes it's a job for some but lately it seems that if you buy a couple of bikes some think they have made it and deserve to be paid the world and promotors seem to be agreeing even though they can't afford , I get the riders will try elsewhere to get what they are after but it needs s collective stand from promotors , riders have become mercenary's and I really do believe that the fans feel this and the bond between fans and riders has been lost because of it , I am forever asking ex riders , ex fans or anybody who was a part of speedway their feelings about it now and they all seem to paint the same picture about where we are , I was in a room at the start of this year where a NL rider was talking about his new team and how he wanted a van from them and they said no and his points money, it wasn't the best in the league but was certainly above most , he said I will turn up with one crap bike because they don't derserve anything else and I can't wait to Guest for another team as they pay more, all I kept thinking was i hope his fans never hear this attitude , riders are going down the wrong road for the sports good and the promotors are letting it happen but it's pointless pointing the finger of blame, we are where we are it's what we going to do about it that matters

one aspect which I do think should be addressed is the extra's that riders get from clubs , firstly I would just like to say riders deserve millions however the millions are not there so something has to change ,I recently saw the demands of a premier league rider and points money aside he was asking for the equivalent of £10000 in add on's up front , add on's being flights,van,mechanic ,workshop,signing on fee + a few other things and this seems to be the norm these days, ive even heard of national league riders asking for some of these things , now can clubs really afford this ? if all 7 wanted this then that's £70000 even before a wheel has been turned , I heard today of one of the tracks in financial trouble hadn't paid the lease money for their reserve riders van and it was returned to the company ,why is he even getting a van ? this didn't happen 10 years ago, i really do think that some riders have lost perspective of why they ride and where the sport is financially ,maybe these deals are ok in the elite league but I do think the premier has got to return to be a semi pro league as it was at the turn of the millennium ,we are getting national league riders turning down meetings because they only pay £10 a point, some will say its not enough we are struggling to make it pay , its the national league your in its not supposed to make it pay, we have to nip this in the bud now ,this is about the future of our sport if it has one

the real point is never expect a fair solution from someone who benefits or loses from the outcome because they will always look after no1 , a tuner will never put himself out of business to make the sport better, but you go and talk to them and they are the first to tell you the sport is knackered , they may be right but then tell them they are a part of the problem

aparently they couldn't make it work any more but I heard Nicki shoved her in to the shelves in the fruit and veg section while doing the morning shop , he said "she saw some banana's on offer but I was getting to them first "

Nicki pedersen for 2017 world champion ?now barbie is off the scene

to be fair to them they only do what the riders want but when they start to be a well known as the riders you have a problem , costs have rocketed in the last few years and I believe that's part down to tuners sourcing their own parts which are for that little bit of something extra but ultimately costs a lot more

a sort of system would work at any level , unfortunately the sport is currently run unofficialy by the tuners with the riders backing and that isn't going to change anytime soon even if the riders were to benefit from it , a soon as the powers try something all hell breaks loose we end up back at square one ,

I know but im thinking about the sports already embarrassing reputation , can we really afford another big embarrassment ? I agree he shouldn't get off scott free but I care about my beloved sport and just feel this will make us more of a mickey mouse sport in the eyes of the general public

just to add I don't think greg should lose his title but should get a big fine and start next season with a 10 point deduction

one thing that is crystal clear on all this is that monster joe should be banned from entering the pits during a meeting , it should of been done a long time ago , you cant have a sponsor of a few riders openly acting like a chimp in the middle of what is supposed to be a professional pit area, he has no right to be there , last night I spoke to a member of the FIM who said in his opinion greg's actions were obvious but he doubted it was greg's idea, so it was obvious where he thought that idea had come from

The agm should be about 1 thing ,not enough people coming to watch = ideas to address this issue . Changing the format and rules isn't going to bring a single person through the gate , I firmly believe the starting point is price , you won't tempt anybody if you overprice your product , yes I've heard all the "we can't do this cause this costs this" etc , we'll change the pay structure of the sport then , painfull short term gain long term or stay as we are bury our heads and everyone can not get paid , if rumours are true £200,000 is owed to riders, suppliers and track owners and still we carry on like all is well

there are a few things but you have to convince the riders and tuners of it and well it would be easier to convince the queen to have a skid

Whatever the machinery solution is it must have big flywheels cause the nature of speedway requires them and neither the Honda experiments or the current f2 idea has them

I believe buster has the balls for radical change and a way forward however he has to convince all the promotors of his vision and it won't be an instant reward fix and I believe they would kick him out before going for his ideas

personally if there was to be another British GP I would rather up was up in some stadium around Edinburgh / Glasgow but I just think another on would detract from Cardiff so happy with one

i agree but Britain is the second biggest money on the GP circus with Cardiff and to a point Torun, apart from Poland I would say Britain has the highest number of traveling fans to other GPs

Are bsi thinking the future ,vaclav milik, Robert lambert or a young pole , excitement Nicki pedersen greg Laguta or commercial any pole and a Brit , lots of brits go to Torun , would that take a hit if there was no other Brit apart from woofy and he isn't the most popular Brit ever

Well done to zmarlick , excellent achievement in your first year GP

Good to see the sport does have some integrity even if monster and certain riders don't

Monster manipulating the results , come on the poles