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Jacek Gollob is still riding ocassionally having made a recent comeback because of his son born 27.10.1969

Also for instance at the start there were so many tracks.There weren't enough days in the week for the London tracks..As i mentioned on another thread about pre war speedway it was possible some days for a rider and fans to see 3 meetings just in the London area on one day and there were a couple more meetings that they would have missed because of time clash.Plus the promoters were milking the fans for the money and some tracks were holding 2 or possibly 3 meetings in one week.!!!

Think he is talking about sputniks.....well the guy is on another planet

Of course it isn't.If they ride in less meetings they are less likely to be injured in one.From a Polish or any fans point of view if a rider turns up and then gets injured in their meeting it is bad luck,but it is extremely annoying if they don't even turn up as they got injured in a 'less important league' meeting.It is also very annoying if they turn up not 100% because of riding in other leagues.There was one guy on here years ago who was convinced that the sport was corrupt as he couldn't understand how they could score 12-15 pts 1 night and then the next nly get 4 or 5.Personally i don't see it has anything to do with that,nor the silencer but more the amount of meeting and travelling they do.No sportsperson can keep up that sort of schedule and hope to be consistent. The riders are robbing the fans and the clubs by riding 5 nights a week or more and they are taking team places off others.Of course it has now got to the stage where there are not that many riders who could move into those freed up places,but if nothing is done the situation will only get worse

Sounds in theory a good idea.Quite like the inflatable lounger for the water.They have a main body and a head rest/pillow that are inflated seperately,but still joined together

Matten Kröger will also end his career this season and Piotr Swist has a farewell meeting next week i think

As i have mentioned once or twice on here Matten has been a member of Brokstedt for 31 or 32 years if you go by some records.I think 32 years is correct,because Matten himself told me he joined Brokstedt a year after it was formed http://www.abendblatt.de/region/pinneberg/sport_137/article207809767/Matthias-Kroeger-beendet-Karriere.html http://www.speedweek.com/speedway-racing/news/98956/Matthias-Kroeger-Brokstedt-wird-sein-letztes-Rennen.html

http://www.dagensvimmerby.se/sport/speedway/e/7900/dackarnas-stjarna-pistolhotad-i-garage/ "It teaches I have become. I know how to hold a gun, I have provskjutit pistols before, of course, on the course and it hung a sweater over, but I saw what stuck out in and felt the atmosphere that it was time to knit. "There was no window" Dackeföraren said to the man who spoke English that he did not want to have any problems. "They talked obviously English and I said I did not want any trouble and began to trot. I had 20 metres to go up a hill and it was a long walk, I can say. I didn't dare turn me back, because I thought they would think I was wondering how they looked or so. It took a while before it as well as sank in what had happened, but it was like being in a movie. It was very uncomfortable,

Something i have said on here a few times over the years.I really think riders doing 3 or 4 leagues cuts down the opportunities and the market has definitely shrunk considerably.Adding to that as i mentioned on another thread a few months ago it seems even in Denmark the number of youngsters coming into the sport has almost halved in a few years.Hopefully this is just a blip,but if it is an ongoing situation peedway really will be in trouble anyway,with a lack of riders.We have seen that also in the Bundesliga now that they allow riders for one team to guest for another this season. It is obviously going to hit a lot of riders in their pocket,but is it really right for the clubs and fans to be paying good money only to see riders turn up injured or tired because they have been riding in all sorts of leagues and open meeings around Europe? I don't think so

I am not sure that is even the problem.Possibly more likely they are 1.Not too happy that riders miss their meetings after getting injured in what they consider a less important league r other meeting.And 2. they are not happy at paying big bucks and having the riders putting in poor performances,which they could consider is due to them riding too often and travelling half way around Europe each week,as well as not putting in too much practice on their tracks and quite possibly not having enough time to do any promotional work in the community Quite honestly i think the riders are just taking on too much and their performances are very inconsistent on the whole.I have some sympathy with the PZM on this ocassion.Whether it will actually work is another matter.Just like the mooted walk out of the GP series by half the riders.........

On saturday,Celina became the first female to win a German national title at any level.She won the 250cc title at Teterow http://www.speedway.org/dm-praedikate/2016/races/index.html Chayenne and Marvin were also riding,but didn't fare so well,but in the 50cc group another brother + sister came 1st and 2nd.Bruno and Frieda Thomas.And another pair were also riding.Sebastian and Jessica Adorjan

End of the road? http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/14767011.AFC_Wimbledon_cleared_for_Plough_Lane_return/

Did we have 'tiger' Louis? Think the nickname came from his tiger striped leathers.A bit before the 'pink panther' came along

Doesn't count if you cheat ya bam.Dudek only scored the same amount of points as Smolinski this season,anyway

Personally don't see any real significance in all of this,but i did see Celina become the first female to win the(maybe it was any)German national 250cc title yesterday.Maybe says more about her oppo,but she did look very impressive

I was at the stadium yesterday for the German youth championships and found the stadium fairly well sign posted.Not sure what the trouble was with one or 2 of the German fans,but maybe it was to do with car parks.All those nice new blue seats on the back straight had disappeared though,but the anti doping shed was still there

And what about Shelbourne in Dublin? I know they had a shamrock on the race jackets,but there are also programmes with a star on them.Maybe they also had a star on the race jacket in 1951/52? http://www.defunctspeedway.co.uk/Dublin%20Shelbourne%20Park.htm

IMG Russia Botanicheskiy Pereulok 5 BC "Botanicheskiy 5" Moscow 129090 Russian Federation

I also heard from a source in Russia that it was costs and conditions that stopped Togliatti wanting to host a GP and instead plumped for the SEC

Could well be the case.I know Güstrow a few years ago sort of complained that it cost less to hold a European meeting(might have been the U19 team event) than it did to hold a German national meeting

Could well have popped into Plough Lane whilst visiting the Communist MP for Battersea North Just a question of whether WJ Cearns,who was from the East End of London was a socialist and that is why the Dons rode with the racing version of the red flag.And was Ronnie Greene a Communist and went that step further and introduced the yellow star to the red flag? Let's not forget the times.....1936 and the Soviet Union had boycotted the Berlin Olympics an we had the Communist party organising the counter-protest against the facists in Cable Street.Then in early 1937 we had the Soviet Union getting involved in the Spanish Civil War and many British socialists and communists volunteering to fight against the facists and in Stepney the Communist Phil Piratin was elected onto the borough council On the other hand Ronnie might have been a horse racing fan and taken a liking to a jockeys racing colours

Tbf to him there were a couple who called it mickey mouse.I think Bwitcher was one,but obviously going way ott by saying everyone

The Soviet flag with the red background(to commemorate the red flag of Paris Commune,1971)and red star with gold border from 1923 was the inspiration for other communist countries flags i.e Vietnam,China and PR of Congo.But doubt anyone at Plough Lane was a Communist? But in nearby Battersea North they did have a Communist MP from 1924-1929 and he was still active in the area into the 1930s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapurji_Saklatvala

What about Chalky White? Common,but i guess not really daft Okoniewski's nickname of Okon-meaning the fish Perch.....Ok i can see shortening the surname to make a new word,but who wants to be known as the Perch?Well Okoniewski does obviously

Like free passes for ex riders who could chat about the old days to fans?