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  1. steve roberts
    Wasn't necessarily comparing cities but the fact that the the two day world final was derided by many at the time and since and yet that's what's been put forward at Manchester albeit within a GP series?
  2. steve roberts
    Interesting development? The two day final in Amsterdam has constantly been criticised over the years although I enjoyed the event as it gave you two days in Amsterdam enjoying the sites. Obviously people now accept the idea of a two day event albeit within a GP series?
  3. steve roberts
    Ivan Mauger was quoted as saying that his style needed "tidying" up as Andrew appeard to be riding four bends continually locking up and should have been smoother but I guess that's what made speedway so exciting back then to watch...individualist. Riders now look all the same.
  4. steve roberts
    I used to enjoy watching riders negotiating the bends with full lockers of which the Kennett Brothers were masters!
  5. steve roberts
    I've just re-read an interview with Gary Havelock he made in "Backtrack" some years back and then he was saying that laydown engines didn't "offer" the opportunity for riders to apply throttle control...it was either off or full on with nothing in between and personally I think this is the problem with many riders now. The bikes are too powerfull for the often too restricted tracks which can cause issues with riders seemingly "out of control."
  6. steve roberts
    Having watched speedway during the 2 and 4 valve era and the advent of lay downs is that riders today all tend to adopt thr same styles and are indistinguishable from each other. Whether that's down to the performance of the bike and/or track conditions is obviously open to conjecture?
  7. steve roberts
    If I recall Troy Butler also worked/works in the construction industry?
  8. steve roberts
    When I first went to speedway in 1972 as a 12 year old the admission was 30p and programme 8p.
  9. steve roberts
    Sad news indeed. RIP
  10. steve roberts
    I'm fortunate in that I have a small private pension and was able to pay into a savings plan. Having moved to York some years ago I worked within the tourism industry where generally salaries are barely above minimum wage. How my younger ex-colleagues will cope in years to come is questionable and I don't envy them. York is a tourist centre and prides itself on same but that isn't reflected in salaries unfortunately.
  11. steve roberts
    Unfortunately not everyone was/is able to pay into a private pension. Those that were/are on low salaries had/have difficulties enough paying bills never mind finding that bit extra to have paid into a private scheme.
  12. steve roberts
    Bit of a generalisation?
  13. steve roberts
    Sad news...a true promoter. RIP
  14. steve roberts
    Just re-reading the excellent "Tears and Glory" and Hans Nielsen's winning time of 58.4 was never acknowledged by the Reading Management as it was clocked when the the tapes had failed and they resorted to the green light? I would have thought that what the management thought was irrelevant because surely the official match report would have been submitted and noted? I was at that meeting and Hans' winning time will always be the record time in my opinion.
  15. steve roberts
    Ipswich from their 1972 squad no longer with us are John Louis, Sandor Levai, Billy Sanders and Olle Nygren.
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