OveFundinFan

I don’t read about Poole no matter how many pages their on.

I am about two thirds through the 500 plus pages. It is an extremely well put together history of PC’s career, starting from a very young age, very young. Having lived and brought up in the same small village of Partington, sort of 10 miles south west of Manchester, I find his detail of life at that time very interesting. The passing away of Bill Collins, Peters dad, at such a young age, and of his mechanic George Clarke, again so young, was very touching. Two nice guys. Earlier in this thread I commented the first chapter I read was Mechanics (as I valued my mechanics when I was doing club level grass tracking). Another interesting chapter was the one about music he listened to whilst travelling to meetings. 60,000 travel miles a year… there is only so much small chat you can cover with your mechanic/driver. He met some amazing artists during his travels. I too was/am a fan of the Hollies and ELO, to get to meet them would be amazing. Peter did, I am jealous.. I still have a third of the book to read, one day it may be a single chapter, another day 2 maybe 3 chapters. I am sure the remaining chapters will divulge a lot more insight into Peters highly successful career. Big surprise for me was chapter 6, paragraph 3. Well done to Peter, TonyMac and Sue, plus all the others, and there will be many, who put together this record of Peters career…….arguably Englands most successful speedway rider (he is in my mind anyway). I have read Chris Morton’s “Until the can runs dry”, a very good read. I want to read Dave Morton’s book. I always thought Dave was going to be a very top rider but maybe his serious accident curtailed his progress to that very top level. And I still waiting for a book that will cover what really went on behind the scenes leading to Belle Vues new stadium and the first 12 months of its management. Just curious.

My 2 year contract with BT expires Jan24 and I won’t be extending/renewing. Possibly going to Plusnet (part of BT group) and BT Sport will be available, but I don’t yet know at what cost.

Add to BSN a Discovery+ package for £60 per year, then you have speedway GPs together with world team/pairs PLUS British premiership for a total of circa £140 (less than £12 per month). That is not even the price of entry to 1 premier speedway meeting. personally, I would prefer to watch MotoGP/2/3 then British premier speedway, so looking into 2023 package with BTSport…..now they joined up with Discovery. OR I will take Discovery+ for Speedway GP’s for a second year and just watch MotoGP/2/3 for the hour on ITv4 Monday evenings.

For a little over £4 per match it has to be a bargain buy.

If not, and you want a book, I suggest you contact TonyMac’s office and ask have they any signed stock. Worth a try.

I think its been agreed on here some time ago that if promotors gave the youngsters the type of entertainment they want then more youngsters may be attracted. The fact is promotors cant give the audience they currently have what they want means there is not much chance of it being expanded to what the youngsters want.

EUREKA! I got my copy of THE BOOK today. I contacted the office of TonyMac on Wednesday, posted on Thursday, dropped (heavily) through the letterbox at lunchtime today, Friday. Looked at chapter headings for a chapter to read first….. I started off with chapter 26 “To the mechanics”. Why?. Although I only did grass track racing at club level I always appreciated the help of my “mechanic”…. the next door neighbour. Peter appreciated his mechanics, hence a chapter to them. Also, one of Peters mechanics was George Clarke, another one from Partington. He gave up racing grass track to be Peters mechanic. You will see him in the photo after Peter won the world championship in Katowice, the one with the black bushy sideburns. Heck of a nice guy, got cancer and died too young. When George gave up the grass racing I bought his 250 race bike. The frame was a Drury, that is made by Graham Drury’s dad. Good frame, and helped me to a different level. I like how the top of each page has a red/black/white banner…..Belle Vue colours. The rest of the book i am going to read in chapter number order, starting this evening.

Y state pension is somewhat less than yours, circa £7200 pa, the wife’s is something less than that, approx £4500. Then I have a private pension, but totalled it is still less than a 40 hour week at minimum hourly rate. I appreciate how much more difficult it is for you….. are you not entitled to other benefits?

Last year when Sunak was chancellor the rate of inflation was 8.1% but he cut the amount paid to less than half that. By the time April 2022 came, when pension increase applies, the increase in my gas and council tax increase had wiped the rise out. My gas has gone up 40% on the last 12 months. Because I paid into a private pension I don’t qualify for any other benefits that may be offered to others. My dad was in the same situation. He too had a small private pension, every annual increase in that just kept him above the point where he and mum could have got benefits to make their life conmfier.

It would be nice to have an update….like have they all now been sent out in the post/when. My bank statement says paid £20 via PayPal to Retroeditor on 5th October at 18:31.

I’m still waiting for my copy. ☹️

Yet the JAP engine seemed to manage tracks well in the sixties, also 2 valve Jawas that followed.

I like Diana Ross singing “I’m Still Waiting”, but it has a different meaning at the moment.

Three world finals is pretty good in my mind.

Just over 7 weeks to resist…… no chance.

Condolences to his family. I remember him riding for Southampton when they visited BVue. A good age but still sad.

I hope mine was amongst those just sent out.

You may be right, but as of this moment I see Dan rode in the British Championship to add something to his CV that was missing….. British Champion. Now got it.

Spectacular memories of him doing that. Watched this morning on you tube, 1982 world championship long track race when he hunted down Egon Muller on a really wet track….. amazing.

Well it didn’t, nor today Friday 28th.

Who can afford either?

Hoping it will drop through my door tomorrow.

Anything to do with who had more wins?

Just watched all 15 heats, just the races…none of the in between stuff, on Discovery+ and I thought this 2nd leg was more exciting, by a short head, than the first leg. A really good meeting, well done to both teams. Usually good meetings between BV and Sheffield, even back in the 60’s and 70’s.