wtf

Starke is the potential weak link I'm afraid. One minute he can be great and really make a contribution, the next he's breaking down or dog slow. You'll always get 100% effort on track, he's brave as they come. But he's had the same short comings for pretty much all his career. If he gave the same effort in the workshop as he does on track he would have achieved so much more. You can't constantly turn up rebuilding bikes in the pits before meetings and expect to not have issues. Sometimes you get away with it, sometimes not. Number 2 is a hard place to ride, and at home having 6,8, & 10 with little respite between is hard on equipment. But until that leopard changes his spots, the inconsistencies will remain

I think there's a better bulk deal on air horns in September, so maybe that's why?

But as they are the governing body, I doubt anything will change anytime soon.

Completely agree, wolves used to be a great track when there was the Karlsson corridor AND an outside line. Now the outside line has all but disappeared it's just 4 guys fighting for the kerb most of the time. In the past used to get to around heat 6 and the outside developed and riders could ride the track "big" and then you had some terrific battles. Whilst I understand a lot of the home riders want it how it is now, and I get that winning teams and home advantage etc is important, it has lost a lot of it's entertainment value.

The truth is you'll never know. There are plenty of occasions where air fences have lifted and caused much bigger injuries than a poly-foam fence. Chris Holder's career was effectively ruined by one in 2013. So each fence has it's merits, and it's downsides. The FIM approval procedure is, I would suggest, considerably more involved and scientific, than some of the numbskulls on here and on Twitter. A safety fence cannot eliminate injuries. It helps to prevent them or minimise them. If any rider and some do, choose to take such a big risk, that they'll end up in the fence and expect to walk away, then I would say they are misguided. The inclusion of body armour, air jackets, air fences etc have made the sport so much safer, but some do seem to expect to have a right to walk away from any crash. I think the overall upshot from Saturday will be ( and I hope not) a move to have such meetings on a more traditional track, which can provide much less of a challenge to some of the leg trailing throttle jockies we seem to have bred.

at least he isn't ginger

Maybe we should get rid of merit, so speedway can fill it's diversity quotas.

did you have to mention turds floating to the top, Shovlar has just woken up

Wasn't referring to you specifically at all mate, just a general observation about some of your fellow fans

Unless you're from Belle Vue in which case all other tracks are rubbish

Jack just showed just how much he hates Tungate

To be fair he didn't get in the way any more than Wozniak and Kubera have this evening

5 minutes of Dave Rowe and Michael Max and they'll be offering compensation not just a refund

You can't just ride it flat out everywhere, you have to think and respect it.

I reckon the stream will work out pretty cheap in the end. £1 an hour I reckon

harsh but fair

pmsl

If it goes on much longer Wozniak will miss his flight

Just don't do too much gardening at the gate

would she rather you did a sneaky one round the outside?

Think they do it just to cheese off all the people who think everything should be at NSS

Turn 3 isn't easy to get into, a lot of riders straightening up. I think it's a knowledge thing rather than track. You have to make a very deliberate entry

He looked to have an extra bend in his leg between his knee and ankle. Tib and Fib I'd say I think it's a poly foam fence, but I might be wrong. It's certainly quite "solid"

There's strippers scheduled for the break after heat 16

Jack has 8