THE DEAN MACHINE

Because ultimately riders want it

No more dangerous than any other track,what they should have done is take the dirt line away

Eurosport frustrates the hell out of me, everything about it is just amateur, constantly missing the action and even missed the crash there

Sheffield look second best here on their own track

Yes I got on with everyone at Berwick,,great lads and great supporters including moggo and his Mrs sue, I loved it at Berwick

It’s better on back straight

Crowd is poor for a semi final against Sheffield

I believe it’s habit unless either an engine or a frame has been changed but after one race that should be settled in place anyway but there have been some strange practices over the years like running with not tight engine/frame bolts so getting the bike to flex more or variable headstocks to make the wheels out of line to make the bike drive, most riders have their little odd things they do

The main difference in the tuners is the porting of the heads and the internal parts they use but they all have a set of flywheels, a conrod a piston and 4valves and a cam and apart from sizes and setting there isn’t a lot you can do

With the exception of hydraulic valves in some engines there is nothing in a modern GM that wasn’t in a 1930 jap,but the quality of the parts are vastly improved, all the speed/tuning is in the head of the engine, lots of bullsH#t but no more than other sports

Over sized engines are rare these days, mainly because the tuners would literally lose their whole business by making an engine oversize for a rider and in the uk with the exception of belle vue you wouldn’t gain an advantage by having an oversized engine,if you went to a track like lakeside you might possibly run an undersized engine,carbs are easily checked and again not really in blixt interest to make oversize carbs although he does make a 38mm version for grasstrack but as I said easily checked, they did away with the silencer cheating by making a hole in the silencer which is what the cheats were doing, fuel is open to cheating but something like nitro makes they eyes run of anybody around the bike, there were some who dipped their filters in nitro but they started checking filters by swiping them, I think on the whole riders are just looking for an edge within the rules which to be honest are quite simple, I’m sure there will always be some but they usually raise suspicion and checks randomly begin, ignitions are varied and there was a bit of suspicion about the karger box but as I posted elsewhere zmarzlik doesn’t use them and he is the best in the world, speedway like most Motorsports is full of fads, someone tries something, wins a meeting and then the whole of the sport jumps on the bandwagon and then they find out it didn’t really work but psychologically it gave that rider the edge he needed, the jhr rear frames seem to be the latest fad, do they work ? Well zmarzlik brought 20 of them last month and he back on Jawa or Stuha,,lindgren uses them and he was poor at vojens so do they work ?

If you look at the ashtec engines that Tom Brennan and others ride they don’t have an ignition cover

On the topic of these karger ignition box, you can alter the strength of the spark as well as the timing but are they any good ? Well zmarzlik doesn’t use them and you know he has tried them

Switches were banned for variable ignition at that point but what smolinski did was put a wire connector in that when pulled apart changed the ignition setting so didn’t actually break the rule according to the wording of a switch. when I was mechanic for skornicki in his last year he was using a German engine made by someone from BMW, it had an ignition system that you changed with a type of usb under the seat, each plug had a different setting and was easy to change but obviously you couldn’t change it during a race as the bike had to be stopped

These bike cheating suspicions were years before his woman cheating one’s

No doesn’t deserve a wild card and no shouldn’t retire from world speedway, he should enter European championship next year and enter qualifying rounds for GP and if he still wants it he is good enough to qualify of which I would like to see him do and I say this as someone who can’t stand the guy

I believe filters are swiped for traces of additives , I know this happened a couple of years ago in British domestic racing because of suspicions of certain riders

around 2013 when I last had a licence you had to tick a box to say you would compete in all bspa meetings, you could opt out but you couldn’t pick and choose,I take it that’s not a thing anymore

The silencer ones no he wasn’t but the other suspicions were when he was world no2

They are checked and it’s very hard to get away with anything at that level, a few years ago there were suspicions about madsen and his ability to gain massive straight line speed after a couple of laps, he has form remember the silencers,on a long van journey I had a chat with a member of the FIM about ideas of how it could happen,it wasn’t his engine,if it was anything it was something else on his bike, fuel was ruled out as it was provided at the meeting,we discussed things like an exhaust brake of some kind causing the bike to drive on slick straights or a Bluetooth device of somekind connected to his ignition, maybe voice activated in his helmet? we discussed things like can you freeze nitro into a little cube put in the tank which melted in the fuel giving extra power after 2 laps,thing about nitro is your eyes know it if your close to the bike using it, nothing was ever found but his GP form has deteriorated ever since

Perhaps Mcgregor doesn’t like Edward’s and wanted kemp in semi final

Decent meeting that, well done to all those that turned up and put on a good meeting, congratulations to Pickering

Sick of riders taking the pee, no consideration for fans as usual

I will never forget Torban Hanson as possibly the worst rider ever to don a wolves race jacket (and that includes me lol) but the rest of the speedway world wouldn’t have a clue who he was

Zmarzlik is the greatest rider this sport has had for the last 5 years and without injury will go on to be the greatest ever, it has never been so open to win a GP as it is today as proven by the different winners this year, with zmarzlik the tittle would be wide open but he has stepped up and his level of consistency is way above anyone else and he does it in an age where GP bike scrutiny is so strict and you can’t say that about the mauger/olsen days