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Excellent news, perhaps someone should send them a link to some of these threads to show them the positivity we all have about our sport…

Last year I watched a meeting from Swindon on my pc, forget what it was but any way 1 camera and could just about hear what the track commentator was saying. Better than nothing

Rye House a premier league team against a team with at least 4 riders in elite league team squad’s and 3 of them are in the playoff’s. Good luck Rye house

One of the thing's we were told when starting out in speedway was, if your not falling off your not trying hard enough.

I've heard that too, but it's all gone a bit quite anyone know any thing

A Kawasaki KHF450 has a stroke of 62.1 mm and a rev limiter at 11500rpm Which equates to a piston speed of 23.80 metres per second A GM speedway engine has a stroke of 78.5 mm and has no rev limiter and will easily rev to 13000 rpm Which equates to a piston speed of 34 metres per second. For a GM to have the same stress on it’s components as a KHF 450 it should only be allowed to rev at 9500 rpm, so why not have rev limiter’s on the GM’s.

I hope we don’t have to put up with another farcical meeting like the one that was shown on Monday between Belle vue and Poole. Sky Commentators keep on bleating about how hard it is to ride a modern day speedway bike with the new silencer;s etc yet the the rider’s have to risk their life riding in that slop because the sky camera’s are there and the show must go on. Great advert for speedway that was!

Wasn't just speedway though was it, look at football, cricket and F1 and you see some serious fiddling happening.

We better not tell them about the chain oiler's then.

The wire filled silencers came no where near passing the noise test.

Me to,Rye house best fence I've ever been through, with a nice piece of grass to lay on as well.

Well if your happy watching the grand final with 25% of the rider's missing, then each to his own. I personally would like to see them handicapped or the rider who finished in 5th place put in.

Touching the tapes then excluded, what a stupid rule I was looking forward to that final, why not 2 tape touches then your out. You can always depend on speedway rules to muck thing's up.

Nah! let's keep it going as an expensive engineering exorcise, look forward to seeing engines revving to around 15,000 rpm in 3 years time, with titanium etc. An F1 engine only cost's around 10 million quid, so there's obviously plenty of room for development work on a speedway engine.

Many riders are already doing day jobs, just to be able to ride speedway. There are a lot of complaints about admission prices, promoters are generally running at a loss, most riders aren't making any money Where is all the riders money going then.

They saying the same thing about cost's in 1968 on page 24 http://content.yudu....13?refid=130161 and I doubt that Mauger & Olsen's 2 valve Jawa's were the same as the rest.

For me leading link forks made a purposeful looking speedway bike look odd.

On a track with long straight’s with all things being equal apart from an extra 1000 revs out of one of the engine’s, at the end of a long straight it should be quite an advantage.

I think you will find they are not required in british speedway this year.

If restrictions were used like carburetor restricters and rev limiters, it would'nt be to hard to upgrade or downgrade the engine.

I don’t think forums help very much either, instead of spreading doom, gloom and despondency to the person standing next to you on the terraces, you can join a forum with all the other whingers and moaners in the world and help drag the sport down even quicker.

Or maybe it is the harder compound tyre's that have also been used in the last 2 years that supposedly caused Gary Havelock's crash.