stevehone

if you want to know how many times i rode at Plough Lane i couldn't tell you... i was born in Wimbledon and when i started riding i would nip round in my lunch break to see Cyril Maidment to ask if i could have a couple of laps after the meeting. normally run out of time so it wasn't very often but enjoyed riding against Wimbledon. always seemed to be extra pressure on me as i was a supporters club member for years before and knew all the first bend loonies. my happiest times were at Canterbury beating Wimbledon riders like Jay Pleece, Mark Fordham, Phil Vance etc People on here have slated my riding but the first time i sat on a bike was when i was 17... never did grasstrack as most of the riders i was up against had been doing since they were kids

to say the same thing over and over....

Richardson did twice what Crump did once and Pedersen did once.... but Pedersen didn't get excluded. A decent meeting spoilt totally by a bad decision in the final. If he excluded Richardson twice for the same, then Pedersen should go too

or maybe she's off in her own little world... :roll:

can't believe TR is not included in the discussion..... :!: don't want him to win but it only takes JC and NP in their first heat to be looking for eachother a bit too much and TR can sneak straight back in....

....and the crowd are enjoying it.... lets go for a break

Yarmouth then? or was it Fleetwood as posted by newxranger

50 is Lance King 38 Hans Nielsen 36 Cowboy Cook 37 possibly Jan O Pedersen in white

just been through the 1946 and 1947 scrap books i have looking for a track that looked the same.... and can't find any :roll:

the firs?

solid white fence means it could be Odsal but looks a bit too built up.. Kevin H could be right here..

New Cross?

i still think Rickarsson could turn out and win the meeting and even the title... an off day for JC and NP is all it needs. TR will be in the first round of races so will have the track well and truly weighed up so this could play into his hands. If it was a permanent track i would say he had no chance but it is one of the unpredictable ones so you never know....

- Well done Steve !! Bird thinks Honey is older than he says or his dad is helping him well i think maybe you are jealous of my knowledge.... if it was 60s and 70s riders it would be his thing, but the 80s is my era. and Eric Monaghan was riding in the 90s too...

Steve - either that was a complete and utter guess or you are a superior being from another planet. I salute you - see pic #32. Falcace - pass him the anorak i could say it was sheer genius and i recognised him by the way he doesn't bend the peak on the cap.... or it was a complete guess.... you decide (but then how many would have got Eric Monaghan?)

25...Peter Collins???

28...Eric Monaghan????

27 is deffo Tom Owen.... quality rider

20...Jamie Habbin??????? is it Sigalos in white in 21???(although unlikely) got an Alan Belham fork cover so probably a local rider...(with long hair)

well it got to be Williams (Fd) and Freddie????

23 is Wigg, Mel Taylor and Nielsen

never heard of A&E but i knew STP stickers on his Arai helmet!!

is 17 Shawn Moran? seem to recall he had a lot of STP sponsorship... is it Phil Collins in white in 18? 22 is 'rmaction' (R.Miller) on the right

i went along to Wembley 81, LA 82, then to Norden 83 each time rooting for Carter to see so near yet so far each time... after Norden in 83 (with the Wimbledon coach) we went to Amsterdam for the big meeting there where we were trying to get Sanders to come and ride for Wimbledon and he actually seemed pretty keen... there had already been lots of speculation at that time anyway.

i thought Billy Sanders was more likely in 1983.... i'm sure he was one of the hot favourites