old bob at herne bay

and there was I reading on the BSPL website that Musicylack wont be riding in more than Poland, as his ankle injury isnt up to racing on tighter technical tracks in England.........MAybe just maybe he gets paid a little more money in his natvie Poland that he does riding in England ????

You are a wise man Racin Jason 72. West Ham once travelled to rivals Wimbledon, missing 2 heat leaders. No one gave us a chance including the Wimbledon riders. How wrong they were - even with just the one regular heat Leader Ken McKinlay we beat the dirty Dons :-) Arise the new kid on the block Malcolm Simmons - I am sure KL fans will remember Simmo :-)

Surely if the boy Musicylak is with-holding his services to Kings Lynn , he cannot be allowed just to sign up for another club in the same league ? Kings Lynn surely have a contract with the rider for the 2024 season ? If he is allowed to ride for another club surely there should be a transfer fee involved ? For once I support the SCB BSPA BSPL (or whatever they call themselves nowadays) in barring Musicylak from riding in PL for anyone but Kings Lynn. I see the non viable PL is now regularly exposed as the fixed race nights of only Monday and Thursday racing, even with just 7 teams, just means fixture backlogs cannot be recovered. Some years ago I proffered that cancelled meetings should not be re-run. Teams should each be awarded 1 point. Clear incentive to home team to get fixture ON.

Sorry guys - but speedway and nearby new housing just doesn't mix. Would you buy a new house costing many hundreds of thousands of pounds within earshot of a speedway stadium ?? Clutching at straws to think that a reduced footprint stadium with a selection of new housing on the boundaries would ever work. THe new residents would be forever lodging complaints and the speedway would slowly be placed under such restricitive terms that it wouldn't be viable. Swindon is but the latest example of this idea that you can have new housing estate and a speedway track in close proximity. Was and is never going to happen.

All sorted ... .found a badge with the requisite year bars and "hammers" for the British League , KO Cup and London Cup in 1965. On ebay.

LOL ..... not quite terromafan....... red, blue, white and yellow/black quarters at that time. Kings Lynn were the "Stars", yellow race jackets with a big green star . Pretty much all the riders were in black leathers ..... Olle had white boots :-)

How different it was in my day. Made the journey up to Saddlebow Road to support the West Ham Hammers. Arrived at teh track and it was wet - they had a downpour probably an hour before start time. There were riders huddling in the pits and I thought I had made a wasted journey. Then the announcer came on and said Olle Nygren the West Ham captain had agreed to test the track. Well Olle by Golly didnt spare the horses going from a practice start full chat into the pits bend which looked sodden wet. The dirt flew and Olle flew round for a couple of laps inside and outside. The bikes warmed up and we wer treated to a pretty decent nights racing. Today the promoters call it off based on a " dodgy forecast" , a damaged pits gate hinge, a clash with a football match ....... no wonder they get so few visiting fans attending. Even the home supporters are losing interest.

Season by season the noose tightens around the neck of British League speedway. British speedway has only itself to blame for the complications of fixture planning it has to negotiate.

Ah, too many fixtures - or too many teams in the league :-) :-)

"As far as I can see, the earliest re-staging of this fixture is Monday 9th September. I wonder if this was taken into account. " Thought Ippo normally raced on Thursdays ? BV are a Monday club so why run it on a Monday ?

"A sport that is already slowly dying " Ther'e no slowly about it matey ...... fewer fixtures than ever nowadays. Just to think it used to be weekly sport. Is it right that this was the only fixture in July for Ipswich ????

Are Poole Pirates still running ? Seems no fixtures for a while in 2024 and I read on here folks talking about " all sorted" for NEXT year (2025?) All rather sad if they have had to close down mid season ??

What rubbish chunky. No other sport has such a category. My point was that women may find a more level playing field if they ran a separate womens speedway , and were not made to compete with men. This would IMHO attract more young girls into the sport.

Seems to me that the FIM and Speedway across the World need to make up their mind on this one... either men and women can compete against each other as is the case now, or they need to insist that men and women have their own separate competitions.

Found Nick Barber - will search his site - thanks again

Thanks Technik.. I’ll keep looking on eBay . Nick Barber…… is he on eBay ?

Thanks bigdave, I'll take a look

Sadly lost the year bars to my Dad's badge which I still have. Remember the year bars including a Hammer design to celebrate the Hammers winning the treble in 1965. Any help in finding a dealer who might be able to help appreciated.

Well sayfootdinoff was the difference tonight, but Ippo will be in trouble if lindgren has a visa by Thursday?

Will Scott sign for Ipswich ? Thursday night racing would fit his tv career commitments :-)

Oh dear…..dropping like flies with “illness” All sounds very serious. ☹️

Sorry - yes he is - might just be the difference against a depleted Brum side.

Good to see Lakeside junior Sam Hagon progress. Brings back memories of seeing him cruise round Lakeside in the junior demo races.

Season over for Ippo with loss of Doyle ? . No Sayfutdinov either for this one, D Thompson doubtful after being ill at U21 ch'sp. Could it get any worse ?

Nor old, Thank you, that’s very useful. Did think that blowing bubbles was the football team song !