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Andy Galvin the 'angel' ... what happened HERE? taken from a Canterbury program

we can certainly hope

looks like 'Alan' somebody to me ....

and allowing rolling and tape touching would eliminate most of that. i used to like watching riders moving and rolling, it was all part of gamesmanship and it was certainly an art to getting it right ... the ref is the one with the button and it's up to him if he feels he should let the tapes go as someone rolls back. with the rules as they are now, i think if someone touches the tapes, then penalise him, but if they're not touched it's a fair start. anticipation is the modern day version of rolling ... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it's up to the rider if he wants to try it. what annoys me with the current rules is that someone will try 'jumping' the start and have to pull the clutch in (or not if you're Adam Allott ) so when the tapes do go they are the ones left at the back ... the ref then stops the race and gives them another chance!

so that GxJxN in your sig is not you?

first time was a 'behind closed doors' practise session for the New Zealand riders a week before the Overseas Final i think in 1984. Wimbledon had raced there the night before too so it was two birds with one stone that weekend. second time was an Ivan Mauger training academy i think in 1985.

i am taller

no you wouldn't

fantastic track, fantastic racing ... some of those BLRC's were fantastic ... and to go up there and see Wimbledon whooped erm...er ... not quite so fantastic. priveliged to be able to say i rode on the track a couple of times.

well done to Kelvin but you do wonder whether he should have taken a year out to make sure he gets back to full fitness ....

well at Canterbury i broke both wrists and an arm (all at the same time), but it didn't make me want to write with my feet

got a couple of pics of Steve at Scheessel in 1995 longtrack final here and here with Peter Johns or here in practise with Doncaster 3rd

although Pedersen has been world champion, and has a chance of doing it again

so you honestly think that N Pedersen took out B Pedersen on purpose? well i watched the tv the same as most people on here, and could see BP getting taken wide and leaving a gap ... due to being taken wide he then aimed himself to cut back in just at the same time NP came through. watch the replays ... look at where BP is facing when he got hit. it's called racing incident, and this happens with plenty of the riders out there. if Nicholls had done the same on one of his bursts through, he would be classed as someone that didn't want to give up, and made a mistake. but then if he was riding in the 70s don't you think he'd be able to dish it out as well? if it was the 70s he wouldn't even have been excluded. that was in the days where you would have a rider fall off in a World Final and still be laying on the track (with track staff round him) and the race would continue!

one word answer here .... BRITISH

roll into the bend and just before the exit, accelerate out ... this should throw the back out if your weight is forward. do that a couple of times then move further back round the bend bit by bit until you are sliding all or most of the way round . try and keep middle - outside as you will need it to be a bit wider.

have a wonderful memory for a lot of things. but the Dennis Sigalos thing was something that made me laugh as a Wimbledon supporter in the 80s ... we always had trouble with the Ipswich fans that called him 'Siggy' ... we just called him 'Fag'

what about Dennis Sigalos, and was he really wearing coloured nail polish when he broke his ankle? or Preben Eriksen ... why was he always involved when Kelvin Tatum got injured? or Dave Jessup on why he always had an EF in a big meeting or Steve Schofield ... one of the best NL riders, a good BL rider and great on the grass and longtrack or Roger Johns ... great servant to Wimbledon or Mike Ferreira ... how he could dominate the NL but struggled to progress

oh Rose darling, you can be such a hurtful cow at times the words 'hook, line & sinker' spring to mind

best move of the night - Crump on Lindback biggest shock of the night - Lindback didn't test the airfence

Dick Searle told me he would only give me 5 meetings in 86 because he wanted to use me on a 2 point average in 87 as after 6 matches i kept my average. thats why i rode in the Kent Select v Czecho Select, otherwise i would have been up north somewhere riding for Canterbury. unfortunately someone went and made the Canterbury track a horrible shape for the 87 season and i just couldn't get on with it.

i had the tiny issue of 2 broken wrists and a broken arm from the week before Canterbury closed ... i was bumming around a place called Poole, with rides now and again at Wimbledon, but unfortunately had signed a contract at Reading which i hated. i went to Exeter half way through the season.

hopefully the 54 - 54 ENGLAND v USA Durex test match from Wimbledon will be included ... fantastic meeting.

it's only 3 and a half stone i put on since packing up ... surely they can stretch that little bit can't they? Mike Spink and Dick Searle did mention i'd put on a little weight

.... at the County Ground, Exeter