THE DEAN MACHINE

Correct decision imo, the lad obviously has the natural talent but there is a mental block in there somewhere, it was all on show last year at numerous meetings where he just shut off and you can’t race speedway like that,you will get injured, speedway is one of the most head strong sports there is and if your head isn’t 100% in it you’re better off out of it

I don’t believe riders of the past were any better motorcyclists than today’s riders, what was different especially in the 70s was you would often find riders competing in grasstrack trials,scrambling and hill climbs events etc on a Sunday afternoon where as now they are riding in Poland

Imo the extra couple of 1000revs generated by the modern bike is just wasted and is doing nothing more than wearing tyres, engines and tracks out quicker while not generating any more forward momentum and I believe making the bikes more dangerous when they do encounter a rut or bump or deep dirt,a chat with one of my friends who I won’t name says he believes the bikes are quicker down the straights and definitely into the corners but slower round the corners because they have to scrub the speed off that they have generated going into the corners therefore the overall the same, so the bikes are going faster in actual speed but not faster over a lap

I’ve got 4 well maintained raceable uprights 1 jap, 1 weslake and 2 GMs and you’re right I wouldn’t hand them over to anyone, cost too much to get to that standard and if anyone is going to blow them up or bend them it’s going to be me and I think that’s pretty much the stance of the majority of owners

Not as easy as it sounds, where are the upright bikes coming from ? The is quite a few knocking around but not owned by current riders and unfortunately 70% of those knocking around are museum pieces and not raced anymore

I have debating these very questions for a while now and there was a piece in the speedway star last week prompted by me about the modern bikes in the modern era are not going any faster than the bikes of by gone years, I was using the race times at Sheffield as an example, the times last night at Sheffield were around the 61-63 seconds mark which is the same times as Hans Nielsen and Shaun Moran at the same track in the 80s, now track surfaces, tyres and silencers are a factor but the fact remains we are going no faster despite the £1000s thrown at it, what is going faster is the back wheel speed but the bike speed is roughly the same, an interesting video to watch is Dan bewley riding a godden at Workington when he out with another rider on his modern laydown and how the godden pulls better out of start to first corner, when they were going round you can here the godden struggling for revs coming off the corners but holding its own speed wise but Dan is on an untuned engine with probably the wrong gearing which eventually blows up, so imagine if it was a tuned up godden with the right gearing ?

Anyway can we get back to Workington, if we need to discuss the sport can we start another topic

Woryna had one of those meetings where his points don’t represent the effort he put in

Believe whatever you like mate but the increase in ferry price is 3 times what it was last year, it’s the most expensive ferry crossing in the world per mile traveled, it is true they rely on holiday season but, they always have but this season 7 meetings was only decided on at a meeting on june 13th, if it went the other way, then a couple of the meetings were hopefully going to be at another track on the mainland, if it was as you think, they could of said in march /april we not running till July, these are the fixtures as the riders needed to know as early as possible

I think with Hanson and pawlicki’s, Wrocław would of been sweating tonight, Kurtz, bewley,laguta and janowski all look a bit underpowered at times tonight

No

I don’t need to believe it mate I have a stake in it

Doyle is another level tonight

It’s not a red hearing, the ferry is so expensive now(best part of £200 per van ) that it made the speedway unviable but through sponsorship they have overcome those issues, we have just received the fixtures this week

The Isle of Wight problems were the ferry company,nothing to do with the events they were putting on and they now have overcome those issues and are running 7 meetings from end of this month

There are facilities for amatuer riders to compete all be it not at every track and they really struggle to get enough riders to do it, Leicester, scunny, Lydd, iwade and Isle of Wight all do amatuer meetings, kings Lynn used to do it but it died off, you only have to look at the midland development league, riders get paid and there still not enough riders to go round

As I said once retired most stay retired they just not interested, I’m not saying you don’t raise some interesting points about the concept but I just don’t see it, as I said I have knowledge of this and it’s like asking them to lend you £50,000

Who are these veteran riders you speak of ? I have a good knowledge of this and of all the riders that have raced over the years , 99% of them have no interest in riding a bike ever again and the 1% that have a little skid now and again have no inclination to want to race let alone have the equipment to do it

They are paying the clubs but it isn’t a fraction for what a major company like discovery should be paying for a sport like speedway of which if they did the sport would be in a better financial state that it’s on now

Hopefully track is on the slick side like last week against Leicester but even then can’t see a win for Birmingham here

Does seem an odd one, rode for Poznan on Friday scored 3, couldn’t see anywhere else he rode over weekend but maybe carrying an injury from previous meeting ?

I do that journey on a Monday to watch the Brummies and it takes 25 mins, even quicker getting home, I could do it in less than an hour on my pushbike

I never said they weren’t rubbish, I’m just sick of people who don’t go constantly having a dig and have nothing constructive to say when they don’t go

When/ where did blodorn pick up this knee injury ?

Well when you are so vocal about how rubbish they are all season then you would of thought to justify your opinion you would show up and criticise but I guess not