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An injured Bomber Harris got 9+1 from 4 rides, and that was riding injured with busted ribs/bruising.. You can't knock the fella for his commitment, and taking the guest booking, perhaps nobody else would? Iversen has gone off the boil by the looks of it.. What was the track like tonight?

Thought I'd revisit this subject, especially now we've seen Fast Freddie mounted on it for a while.... FF seems to be going rather well on the Gerhard, it seems pretty fast and pretty reliable (thus far) Are there any other riders currently riding the Gerhard engine, anywhere in the World if needs be?

Has his Swedish and Polish clubs not made there play-offs??

Heavy rain in Manchester Friday from breakfast time (08:00ish) until early/mid afternoon (15:00ish) then a gradual drying up, but still a chance of an isolated shower up until late evening (22:00ish) So Belle Vue have a fair chance of a meeting.

The weather tomorrow is dire from breakfast until dinnertime, then it improves afternoon/evening.. So a well tyre packed track should fend off waterlogging if it runs off track down the banking and down the drains.. Typical though isn't it? We've had some nice weather recently and no damn Elite League racing, and now the fixtures go into overdrive, the poor weather returns with a vengeance!!!

*******||******** Is 2017 the last year of Rosco's tenure as manager of TeamGB? **********||**********

Saturdays weather is very fluidic at the moment, literally changing by the hour... So a forecast now is going to be pretty unreliable.... I will give a forecast tomorrow afternoon (Friday) which should be a touch more reliable.. If I'd have had to make a decision to run Saturday or not earlier in the week, I'd have postponed the meeting, however now, the weather is nowhere near as bad as it was (for Leicester area) that is..

Surely, he wouldn't be allowed to claim expenses travelwise, except from his UK home address to Belle Vue and back home.... So around 160 miles @ 48p tops.. Surely he wasn't expecting travel costs from Poland or where ever else he rides in Europe....

I met her at a pre (New) Leicester Lions launch night, had my photo taken with her, a very nice person.. Wishing you well Charlie Webster.. #Keepfighting

Yea, the rain didn't materialise either!! Still, that's what the punters want, weeks between matches, called off if track not 100%, and 6 man teams littered with guests and R/R, looks like a corner has been turned in British Speedway!! 😉

Mileage would only have been just into double figures, so maybe 120 mile round trip from his home to Belle Vue, @ what, 48p per mile?

July was a 5 week month..

Yes, I know. But Tai did say he would be running some training schools, didn't he...

They cancelled the 2nd meeting... If they'd ran it, both teams were without key riders because of fixture clashes, team A, 3 guests and R/R, team B, 2 guests and R/R!! Only joking!!!!!!😊

Having been "up close" to Bomber when machine examining, I can confirm he is very lean indeed, he is no longer wearing a "personal" bouncy castle, but does wear some bulky protection, and don't forget, he's only 5"5 when he wakes up in the morning, so often when Kevlared up, does look bulky... Bit like me!!

What I meant was a rider of his calibre should NEVER be allowed into a situation where he rides in races that are protected for the EDR'S...

Is Peddlebike still at reserve? This is another BEL anomaly that needs seeing to before next season....

Double uppers and double downers... If they get injured, that's 2 British Clubs that are then short of a rider, this also increases guests and R/R

I suppose this also includes his planned training schools?

But the Premier Football League, and Champioship, plus leagues 1 and 2 play Fri, Sat and Sun afternoons.... If fans of both have to choose, I think the football would win.. Speedway is best in the evening, tracks are better, and there's less football.. The sport (speedway) can't afford to haemorrhage any more fans..

You know, editing someone else's posts is against forum rules.

I know, until proven otherwise, but it's worth discussion don't you think? If you don't want a discussion on the matter, don't get involved in the thread..

We moan about missing riders to overseas fixtures, and yet the Elite and Premier Leagues cannot get their own houses in order fixture wise!! You couldn't make it up.......!!!!

So what is behind the scenes at the BSPA? For crying out loud, it's a group of 30, middle aged business men who decide rules for the sport they fund.... It's not like the FBI or A multi departmentalised government, or huge quango.. It has to be down to funding, and the BSPA ain't got 2 pennies to rub together.... In my opinion. For example, the BPL abandoned new rear tyres for each league match down to the promotors being skint!!!!

I think its down to money, the BSPA are pretty much skint. Things that TW wanted to have cost money and its just not there.. Speedway in the UK is, in the views of most councils a hinderence, noisey, a cause for complaints wherever a track is within 100 miles of anything representing residential.. It pollutes the water table, pollutes the atmosphere and blocks up A & E.. In Poland, that's a completely different kettle of fish, tracks/stadia are built by the govt, the running costs are subsidised by govt and rider wages part govt funded. Tracks are accessible pretty much 24/7/365.. it's also near as damn it on the schools curriculum!! If TW is only asking for a tiny bit of money from the BSPA, they just don't have it to give..... IN MY OPINION..