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See some criticism of the track etc from Denmark Apparently Lars Munkedal commentating on Eurosport said the track was dangerous. Others have commentated that Teterow is never a GP quality track As an aside, in Germany there was a fair bit of criticism for the whole weekend. Basically poor organisation . Poor facilities, running out of drinks

Saw a crowd of 720 announced. Guess that is pretty good

A longer report on the Grass track on now. Think it will be available to watch for a while https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/die_nordreportage/Spruenge-Schanzen-scharfe-Kurven-Zum-100-Mal-Teterower-Bergring,sendung1258386.html

Just my opinion of course but Dave Lanning was better on the mic than on paper. Reading back, most of his stuff is quite painful to read

I think Dave Lanning made up lots of stuff in his columns that were never taken on by others

Be interested to know if this can be seen online ? Has been asked before with no success. Sort of expected it to be during the British occupation of the country, especially pre war when it was very popular and seemingly meetings run in all 4 corners of the world. 70s seems less likely, but not impossible

But not all US nicknames were great 'Lammy' Lamoreaux although i seem to recall he was knwn as 'the Frenchman' or maybe 'Frenchie' at first due to his surname. So maybe the 'Lammy' name came from his time in the UK

Seems rather pathetic and the meeting obviously shortened. Guess you can't complain for a tenner and you can also see the Nicki P 85cc meeting on the speedway track beforehand. Hey ho have tofeel sorry for Holsted making all the effort to put something different on for the region though

I see the Polish football manager has said one of his players who is based in Russia will not get picked for the World Cup later this year !!! https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61867948

Think it is Lasse Bjerre and Claus Vissing who move up. Now is see.....

Nice on BL65 I thought if anyone could answer it, it would be you Tbh i guess the Newcastle link put me and others off. I did look with no luck at pre- war Newcastle results. Expecting him to be a rookie

Well i guess the Germans can send all their riders, and it seems like Kruse hansen and Bukhave are the danes. So who is struggling ? Dutch ? GB ? Or French ?

I thought we had too, which is why it wasn't really a call to re do all the well known nicknames. It was just the first thread i came across that fitted my question about 'Onandoff' Johnson. Following forum guidlines and not starting yet another new thread

See the Holsted track now. Just a tenner to get in, as well.

Reading an online excerpt from the book on Clem Beckett and it mentions various riders nicknames, Riskit Riley and Slider Shuttleworth to name two.....then it mentions a rider called ' Onandoff' Johnson who rode for Newcastle A new one to me. Who is this rider ?

Think you are missing the point that bikers don't relate to speedway more probably because they don't ride the sort of bikes that speedway riders do. If Harley or Indian etc still made speedway bikes it might have more connection with the outside biker world As it was, back in the 70s i used to love the GB v US series with Barry Sheene, Mick Grant etc

If there is so much doubling up/down and guests etc wouldn't a big league just end up a bigger farce than two smaller ones ?

The basic problem with the sport is riders riding all over the place. It robs youngsters of a spot all over. It is not only the UK that are having problems, but it was noticed and has been going on for a decade or more. I pointed out the dramatic drop in riders in Denmark. Just as i seem to recall Anders Michanek in Backtrack noted the drop in number from his time in Sweden. Poland, although maybe the only country trying to do something, are also seeing this happen now I remember back nearly two decades ago now and here in Germany we had qualifying rounds for the German championship and also i seem to remember the U21 championship, divded into North and South. Now it seems they are lucky to get a full field without using a foreigner or two on german licences...

From what i heard, only East London

Think you are looking back with rose tinted glasses Ove Fundin for one told me he was often abused and had things thrown at him when he rode at Wimbledon. Even back in the 1930s riders were physically attacked. One notorious track was Harringay

You'll have to point out which quali meetings Briggo rode in ,in 1958 I also am finding it difficult to find Fundin in the Nordic, Continental or European Finals in 1957

Funny, when i mentioned the small league the other day someone said ....

Is Espen related to Rune at all ? Looking at the ages he could well be his son. But then again it might just be a coincidence

I was going to ask did he sign it in Japanese and then you edited the post and gave me the answer. Great stuff