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It certainly is, this is becoming a farce before it starts.

It isn't chewing tobacco but they're all tobacco products, it actually looks like little teabags.

No! It is tobacco in sachets that are placed between the upper lip and gum, it is actually illegal here but not in Sweden where there seems to be a higher level of mouth cancer. You can get it online and some Swedes distribute it here, it's very popular with riders and I've seen Tai use it and Darcy used to be a user. So while you made a sort of point about him smoking (as with riders of old), he actually is in effect. Snuff is powdered tobacco that is sniffed into the nostrils.

Yes, all power to him, two or three more such events and KL will be shutting down through lack of interest.

Ask him about the Snus he keeps sticking behind his lip between races.

Another televised meeting with guests and R/R.

Josh and Adam have both had some Polish league involvement this season.

I DO want him there, I also wanted him in the SWC but if he declined that, he shouldn't be able to pick and choose. The word 'demand' was in context with several earlier posts.

In that case why did he show a photograph of himself and Lambert on Twitter and claim that would have been his choice? That looks a bit more than input and more like a demand. Anyway he isn't in and hopefully those who are gain some useful experience.

If (as indicated by some) he wanted the meeting called off, he pretty much had to make a stand, anyone can ride round at the back, have an EF or tapes exclusion but he didn't use his noggin and now he (deservedly) has to pay.

Isn't that the same thing?

If we can't afford 'Elite' riders, wouldn't it be rather pointless?

Who exactly are they? If you mean the promoters, then you'd be left with no sport, or maybe something on the lines of an occasional grasstrack.

That is news to me.

If it wasn't for better safety fences you would have many more serious injuries, you only had to see Leicester on Monday night. I think a rider sat on the saddle of a sliding bike and going full throttle, is less able to respond to a problem than a rider stood over the handlebars and usually not going full throttle.

It must have been 'rideable' the meeting was completed.

They were certainly something of a one man band, he was the local hero and put bums on seats but they had to pay a lot to keep him, I don't think he was short of offers from elsewhere and riding in Halifax on a Saturday added to the complications for him riding abroad on a Sunday.

I wasn't at the Joe Abbot meeting but I was local to the Odsal track and was a fan there and Belle Vue in the 1950s. Many years later I was working at a house just off Odsal roundabout and I asked the elderly occupant if he could hear the bikes, he replied that he could and that he worked at the mortuary where Joe Abbot's body was taken, he told me that Joe had many broken bones from past injuries and they obviously hadn't been allowed to properly heal. It seemed common in those days to see riders still competing with an arm in plaster or having to be helped on and off their bikes.

And now looks 'unbalanced.'

They still didn't need to drop him and the guy who replaced him is even worse.

Where he was dropped?

If he'd ridden in the SWC I would back him for the World Games but as it's little more than an open meeting I think it's a good idea to let those selected have the experience.

In the GP, I would have qualifiers only, apart from the one local wildcard. In the UK, I would have one league and only use the averages once annually. Riders absent because they were riding in overseas events would only be replaceable by a NL rider. I would like to see a more standard and cheaper to run engine.

Has he said anything?

Maybe he's launched an appeal and doesn't want to prejudice the outcome?