barrow boy

Pleased to see that Leicester's starting marshalls have adopted the new BSPA recommended starting procedure with the riders being asked to come to the tapes in lane order. Well done gentlemen it is much better than before. Sadly the starting marshall at Coventry does not seem to think likewise or perhaps he hasn't seen or been informed of the new requirement yet.

I think so Not exactly how it happened. He ran into Jason Doyle's bike, the bike did not hit him. Somehow Stuart Robson, who was in front Of Michel Michelsen at the time, managed to avoid it.

Excuse me but I do not tell lies and I had just a red & yellow scarf on, no badges and no bobble hat. I am not that much of a clipboard. I aske the man who he was and he had an SCB tie on.

I was asked by the chairman of the SCB if Leicester had improved their track yet which I thought was a bit rich having just witnessed one of the most boring meetings ever with little or no challenging racing in all bar one heat and I had to wait until heat 15 for that.

According to my BPL 2014 current form rider rankings he ended last season in 5th place behind Craig Cook, Simon Stead, Edward Kennett & Sam Masters.

Exactly what I said.

Mine to.

Hans Andersen not available for Coventry who have I understand have elected to go with rider replacement.

Usually the team who has more riders than the other teams that improve their starting averages comes out on top. Looking at the lineups bearing in mind that Poole have yet to complete, one team has 3 such riders and one team has none with all the remaining teams having 1 or 2. I admit that this is just in my opinion and things do not ever work out as expected. I leave it to you all to do the maths.

It states that Swindon have received their new sponsorship certificate which now allows Swindon to employ non EEC riders who need a visa to ride. Has Troy Batchelor actually been granted said visa yet?

Let's hope that it has been worth the wait. What you implying?

But he does not fit with Flagrag's criteria.

But this will mean a replacement being introduced and then a delay in bringing in a replacement etc etc which is the whole point of sorting them out after the race has been run to keep the meeting flowing. Warnings followed by fines for repeater offenders will sort them out.

Very true but like I've said the race should not be delayed each time there is an infringement. Let the race be run and then take the offending riders to task after the race with warnings and or fines.

Like I've said it's for the referee's to sort out by warning and or fining riders after the race has finished for delaying the start.

I just thought it was funny

He did in fact end the season as the best performing rider.

Excellent

And what brings you to such a conclusion may I ask?

All the starting marshall has to do is invite the rider in gate 1 to move up to the tapes and not until he has, does he then invite the rider in gate 2 to do likewise and so on. If a rider is deemed by the referee to be taking too long to comply he should then be warned by the referee after the race has finished via his team manager that if he does it again he will be fined for delaying the starts.

It's when they have done their messing about and are at rest within a couple of bike lengths of lining up and are waiting for the others to to move up first that I would like stopped. Having a rope 30 meters or so behind them is not going to change things.

So you do agree that something needs to change then.

Will it stop the persistent I must be last to line up riders waiting for the others to line up. It takes ages when there is more than one such rider in a race.

Ok and sorry I misunderstood

I didn't ask for details I just thought that it would be nice if the management would just comment from time to time on the general situation. I am not a know it all and I am fully aware that 7 riders will be in place thank you. I just feel that it would be nice if the management would keep us more updated on the general situation.