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Everything posted by steve roberts
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Gawd almighty!
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Great stuff!
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Brilliant analysis on one of the best riders never to have won the Individual World Championship.
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I recall on one of my "History of Speedway" DVD's a rider having fallen got up and started to adjust his goggles and a back marker ploughed straight into him!
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I think he lived in Felixstowe?
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First meeting-how many riders still alive.
steve roberts replied to BOBBATH's topic in Years Gone By
Something that John Berry used to refer to whereby he made it very difficult for opponents attempting to pass seemingly covering both the white line and fence! -
First meeting-how many riders still alive.
steve roberts replied to BOBBATH's topic in Years Gone By
Recall reading that he was instrumental in Ipswich winning at Sheffield in 1972 when some members of the "Tigers" team were making a nuisance of themselves and Olle decided to get tough with them. -
One of Swedish speedway's pioneers. RIP
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That's very sad news. One of the greats in my opinion and helped greatly to get Sweden on the map speedway wise. Will always cherish my time when I attended one of his training schools at King's Lynn. RIP Varg-Olle.
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I'm working thru' the book and there appears to be more emphasis on his Longtrack exploits which is understandable, I guess, considering his success at that particular discipline of racing but personnally I have little interest in Longtrack racing and would have preferred to have read more about his times at Wimbledon and Coventry, in particular, which was quickly brushed over.
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Wolverhampton Indoor Speedtrack 12th January 1972
steve roberts replied to BL65's topic in Years Gone By
I think that there were three (?) and I attended two. Did the first NEC one (I think that there were two (?) but never bothered with Telford...never appealed to me personally. -
Apparently Jason Crump is making a comeback with Plymouth?
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I checked it up. It was Dave Wills of West Ham who was sadly killed as described in Simmo's book.
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First meeting-how many riders still alive.
steve roberts replied to BOBBATH's topic in Years Gone By
From memory he was killed on his way to a meeting at Coventry whilst crossing a dual carriageway in his car during early 1974? -
I seem to recall a fallen rider was killed by someone who was some way behind who failed to drop the bike?
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One lad bought his own bike and it was a bugger to start...remember three of us pushing it an entire lap before it kicked into life! My brother went to one of Olle's schools a couple of years before me and shared a bike with Chris Prime who was later to lose his life at Newcastle.
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Funny but when I went to one of Olle Nygren's Training Schools at King's Lynn many, many years ago it was never discussed...and we certainly never laid any bikes down intentionally I recall.
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I always remember when at Ipswich when Oxford were the visitors Kai Niemi got into trouble directly in front of Hans Nielsen and Hans immediately shut the throttle off all within a split second whilst remaining sat on his bike and not having to lay it down...very impressive.
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Recall that Len Silver wouldn't allow someone to take to the track during his Training Schools until they had satisfied him that they were able to lay the bike down...I did read that he used to jump in front of a rider forcing them to drop the bike but I'm not sure if I actually believe that? Just read in the latest "Backtrack" magazine that it was also a requirement insisting upon by Ken Marshall who used to run Training Schools at Felton under the instruction of John Robson "...if they couldn't lay a bike down, they couldn't go out on the track."