Long Eye

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Riders want to do it, promoters want to stage it, fans want to watch it and sponsors want to be invest in it. What's the issue?

Don't you find it a bit short sighted of the BSPA to not allow a Great Britain team or certain riders to compete and raise awareness of the struggling sport on some decent TV slots? Maybe the BSPA could have entered a team of their own, found some sponsorship for the team and made a bit of a profit from it?

Yeah good idea to cut down on the track grading. Then all the cockwombles on the terraces will moan about the lack of passing due to the dirt being out by the fence and a rutted track. Lets not have any sun breaks and enjoy watching the crashes on the 3rd bend as result.

Experience. The more laps that a rider does on a track then the more he will learn about what is needed from the bike.

Not sure about Notro, but Nitro still works well.........

Kings Lynn v Wroclaw?

It's not difficult to find out. The clues are in the words.

Turn speedway into a betting sport so there is less reliance on dribbling idiots coming throuhg the turnstiles.

No it is not Dave in the Lions suit.

, cant imagine for 1 second that any other rider would be so Ignorant and self absorbed that they would replace their hat and start talking and giggling like a complete tosser while their anthem is being played . Is that your main problem? Think if I had just won a World title I'd stood there having a w@nk.

Where's the 'tw@t' button when you need it?

Think WW os just a bit thick.

Not if you know how to look after a bike.

It was a meeting held in 1926.

I read a feature by the historian Tony Webb a couple of weeks ago. At what was thought to be the first speedway meeting proper in Australia the scoring system was the same as the GP uses today, 20 heats, 2 semi-finals and a final to decide the winner. So actually the GPs are using the proper traditional method.

The biggest problem with speedway. Fans don't like watching the sport unless it involves their own pissant team.

Norman hunter used to service his JAPs after EVERY meeting if he had the time. He also did engine tuning for other riders occasionally. When he moved onto jawas he found them slightly more reliable allowing bigger gaps between servicing and the Weslakes could go even longer between services.

It's not the rod that needs changing, it's the flywheels. If using GM parts then longstoke flywheels in a shortstroke engine results in something like 547cc. Apparently.....

Yes they do. I have been at Brands a 2 or 3 times when qualifying at car meetings has been delayed to allow the sun to rise more.

1: GP star 2: Random bloke with some free time or R/R 3: Random bloke with some free time 4: Polecat 5: bacon scoffer 6: Northern Bloke 7: Tall Bloke

In picture 3 it looks as though the left side lug is still attached to the engine plates the same as the right side. Whatever happened I bet it grabbed his attention!

If you look at the picture it is the weld that has failed on the bottom right-side downtube. The engine bolt is still in place complete with the lug that it goes through. A crack on this part is not unusual. The clean break through the top tube behind the headstock gusset is though.

Not a very factual report on the GP at Cardiff in that article.

Lots of riders still use Castrol 'R'. Castrol changed the make up of it years ago to improve performance. Most other oils used in speedway are castor based just produced by different manufacturers.