piston197

Not a speedway rider, but my mate had a guy on his butchers round Maurice Plunkett-upham

Chris Harris Nicki P Frank Smart Mark loram Phil Crump 5 triers/entertainers

Still not as bad as the 65-25 KO cup thrashing the Tigers got in the first leg of the final in 2011 against the sadly departed Newport Wasps, there was no coming back from that !

Ledburys Flyer unfortunately a casualty of the weather , but here was a list of riders who were scheduled to ride tomorrow, couple of current/past speedway riders in the line up https://en-gb.facebook.com/LedburyMotorCycleClub/posts/2876582799132806?__tn__=K-R

Scott Smith on a victory lap at Newport came across the tractor raking the track, dropped his bike and baled off, tractor continued with his bike travelling on the rake for 1/4 lap while Scotty sat on his Ar8e watching .

Yes Anders was a joy to watch at Newport and should have gone on to better things, but for pure entertainment Frank Smart paired with Craig Watson

Was anybody from the Newport area seen in the vicinity ?

Obviousy the rider would not be watching the LED display when ready to go ? set the revs required to the limit required for maximum traction i.e. 10,000 RPM, hold throttle in that position move forward to starting position and then look at the tape release mechanism, obviously i am not advocating sitting over the back wheel as you suggest and watching the display as you do a back flip

I have often thought ,how difficult would it be to rig up a handlebar mounted LED revcounter strip, with say 12 LED's lighting up at 1000 RPM intervals, then as different tracks have different grip levels at the start gate, a sweet spot could be found to give maximum acceleration /traction ? If say 9000RPM had you rocketing away from the opposition, the same rev setting could be utilised next time, and if it had you left behind try more or less revs the next time ? You don't need to be looking at the revcounter once your desired rev range has been reached then maximum attention could be on the start gate

When you have 2 teams built to 38 points ( 76 for the meeting) and 90 points available total, there will be a lot of riders put a point on their average, whether it is of any significance is of doubt this year, if every meeting was drawn 45 /45 and both teams are built to 38 points there are 7 extra points per team to be doled out somewhere ?

There is not a lot new in the world, this was being done many years ago particularly in scooters, but rather than having offset cranks, they were doing it simpler by having the gugeon pin off centre ( de-saxe) to minimise the side thrust of the piston, just had to be careful that you fitted the piston in the correct way round

Last sounds to be coming out of Newport speedway was Billy Joel's " I didn't start the fire" but it wasn't Billy singing it !

I seem to remember one of the motorcycle papers ( motorcycle or MCN) testing a speedway bike, possibly Simon Wigg on board? on a beach somewhere to actually see how fast it would go , remember that they ran out of gearing before they explored the limits of the top speed, but it was something in excess of 100MPH and 120MPH comes to mind. Not relevant to a speedway track, but quite obvious why speedway engines are ideal for sprinting

Local library ?

Maybe the Newport wasps would be welcomed too, another travesty of selling off a Speedway site for commercial purposes

Well at the moment it is dead !, but come March it will be given the "kiss of life" and dragged kicking and screaming back to existence, maybe not "life as we know it Jim", maybe not as healthy as previous years, but definitely alive

I expect there to still be no Newport speedway sadly !, well you did ask what I was expecting from MY team

Wake up and smell the kaffir ?

Just google the Wiki entry for "Plastic Brit" and you will see just how rife this procedure is especially in Athletics, it does not seem to matter where you are from, or where your parents ,grand parents are from as long as you have a GB passport you are British in the eyes of the governing bodies , and if you have not got one, then the process for obtaining one can be circumvented in the interests of "sport"

Had a look at the pictures above, and definately cannot see the point ( or points)

Another really good idea, and 5 tickets @ £50 to use at any home meetings would be reasonably priced Xmas present to someone who would not normally attend, and you never know they might get to like it ? An excellent loss-leader to get new people through the gate

Rory " roo boy" Sclein Buzz burrows Scott " scud" Smith etc.etc. Rory " roo boy" Sclein Buzz burrows Scott " scud" Smith etc.etc.

With the Indian firm Mahindra buying the rights to both the British BSA name and the Czech Jawa name in October this year, are we going to see Indian Jawa speedway engines , don't doubt they would be a cheaper engine, not so sure about the reliability?

in the Triumph speed triple challenge, the top finishing bikes were dyno tested at the end of the race, to ensure a level playing field and any making above the allowed horsepower were disqualified. Having said that a lollipop stick jammed and turned sideways between the carbs rubber and air box allowing more air in was givng an extra 3BHP, you just had to remember to pull it out on the wind down lap, still it was not expensive tuning and you got the joy of an ice-lolly!

have a god look at some of the Japanese speedway racing ( auto race, or oto-resu) the riders compete on same machinery and are unknown to the spectators, basically a gambling sport, but big crowds ??