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a few pictures that i took last night at the annual dinner >>> HERE

thats how i remember it .. i thought 1988 would happen at Canterbury until things came out in the press later on.

just have to sit it out then like the rest of us that can't afford/don't want to go

and get a tetanus ready for the animals

we'll see!!!!!

it's at Kings Lynn ... Troy will do ok.

i'm another that's concerned about a big meeting going to Birmingham ... great for the club, the track can produce good racing, but awful for spectators if there's an air fence as everyone will have to go inside and that's not what people like to do at speedway. the viewing on the first bend is from a couple of temp stands which get full very quick, and viewing on the second bend will be nil unless you're 14 foot tall and can see over the fence. no spectators along the back straight and 3rd/4th turns a problem too. so all in all, if you're going to Brum and want to see, expect to be in the grandstand.

i have a couple of pictures of me winning a race at Boston in 1987, that'll be rare too

just heard from one of his sponsors that he's cracked 2 vertebrae.

totally agree, get someone that can ride the tiny tracks win the GB round, then go on and make a fool of themselves on a big Polish track.

from what i've seen, the CL racing has been top notch there

it's at KL, he's more likely to have a good day i reckon.

no-one mentioned Swindon with ex KL riders Adams and Batchelor .. Troy could be handy back-up for Adams

the exact reason why the easier qualifier will always be sorted in favour of 'Team' GB

he's a regular at the WSRA annual dinner Steve ... Ken Archer

what is being improved from a speedway perspective?

same here, but there was still London Bridge McDonalds on the way home

think i remember her ... wasn't she a rather large young lady? Arthur Caton i think, his wife Iris was on the gate at Hackney and Rye House Alf Weedon's son? my memories of going to Hackney on Fridays was the traffic getting there through Elephant & Castle, London Bridge, Whitechapel, then over the flyover and left at the pub. running out of petrol on Whitechapel and pushing the car to nearest garage. meeting up with various people there in different parts of the stadium. a girl called Mel honking on her bicycle pump type airhorn good racing riding there on Saturday's when it was open for training riding my first second half there doing a second half against a young Joe Screen who, once he got past me on about lap 2 or 3 left me for dead. journey home we always stopped at London Bridge McDonalds, parking up by the Monument, used to see various riders in there. loads of memories ... just a case of thinking about it.

you know what i mean then

i remember a girl with a big chest, can't remember her name though. she used to be friendly with the riders ... she had dark, wavy hair and always had a friend with her too (can't remember her name either). the lady with the chest used to knit her own speedway jumpers too. that would have been about 1984 - 86 something like that.

so many fantastic memories of Wimbledon ... going to away matches on the coach (when we had Chalfont, who was the driver we always wanted, there was one that was a good laugh, was it Rick?) or on the 'breakaway' minibus with Larry Rose. the initiation on the coach and the ritual debagging of someone. trying to get the back seat record on the coach. mooning at people from the back window. going to watch Tatum at Canterbury in a Junior Championship meeting and when Frank Ebdon excluded Tatum in one of his races, Larry Rose went round to batter him with his program board with Bembom Brothers in Margate before the meeting. the world finals with the supporters club ... Norden & Gothenburg. walking round and round the stadium meeting up with all the people we knew. away matches when we knew we'd get stuffed but still spent the journey to the meetings ripping up paper. like Steve has said, the small sweet kiosks in the depths under the stadium. the arguments with the Ippo supporters on the 2nd bend terracing .. they always supported Siggy and we always called him a fag. the big meetings we had there ... Laurels, Spring Classic, Commonwealth Final, some games thing they had there etc getting cheers from the first bend crowd when i won a race, punched the air and ended up on the stock car track. going to have a chat with Maido in my lunch break at the speedway office window. the list could go on and on ... so many memories, so many great people, riders and supporters.

oh well ... i was on the Wimbledon supporters coach both years i have pictures somewhere from our day in Amsterdam ..

yep, was on the Wimbledon coach for both Norden 83 and Gothenburg 84. in 83 we stayed in a Novotel in Breda i think, was that the one?

hmmm ... wonder if this was the one i went to