cityrebel

Looking at this as a wide eyed kid in the early 1970's. My top three are ronnie moore, tommy jansson and the king of custom house christer lofqvist!

As a lifelong wimbledon fan i think the stadium has little chance of surviving as a greyhound or speedway venue. Both sports are in decline and who in their right mind would invest millions of pounds in building a new stadium for about a 1000 people. For this reason I fear that swindon will soon join oxford and reading as a former speedway venue. There is no money in speedway anymore, you only have to look at the strength of the elite league to realise that.

Munich must go down as one of the worst tracks of all time. It looked even narrower than somerton park, although it was a great stadium with excellent views of the 'racing'!

Ivan mauger. When i was a kid i hated him for his antics at the tapes. But i changed my opinion of him in 1985 when thanks to cyril maidment, i went on his farewell tour to poland with all of the riders and ivan's family. He could not have been more nicer to me and it made me feel guilty about booing him all those years ago!

I might have stopped buying the star in 1991, but i still get back issues given to me on a regular basis. A quick glance at these tell me all i need to know.

I thought that caravan was your new pad shads!

I just find the speedway star boring and have done for years. I stopped buying it when Wimbledon closed midway through 1991. It's enough for me to attend a couple of meetings a week without paying more to read about it. All I need to know on a race day is, the team line ups and the weather forecast, these things I can get via the Internet. I have little interest in the SGP and a lot of the articles in the star are devoted to that subject.

Penhall's antics at the white city tarnished his reputation in a lot of peoples eyes.

Crayford was a tricky little track with the big dip at the tote board end, but it was a venue i always enjoyed going to. The food outlets were excellent as well!

Somerton park was a bit dodgy but Bristol eastville must have been one of the trickiest of all trick tracks!

Hi tony, i went to most of the wembley home meetings for those two seasons including the reopener against hackney, complete with billy smart's 'live' lions. As you know i Am a big collector of all things london speedway, but i have never seen any footage from the 1970's era. I presume the local media must have covered it, the return of league racing to wembley was headline news at the time.

West ham, wimbledon, white city, hackney (hawks era) and wembley (bert harkins era!!!)

It certainly feels like yonks ago, i remember seeing the czechs ride there, bouncing off of the concrete safety fence!

The suspended safety fence used at rye works the same way as the original used at wimbledon from 1968 to 1991.

A good idea for those of us that will attend both meetings.

As an IOW regular, i don't think it's just the huge cost of buying an air fence which is the problem. The whole track also needs to be relaid, added to the substantial yearly losses incurred by the promotion is making that elusive sugar daddy harder to find.

Your sarcastic reply does not answer my question. Regardless of what meetings are staged there ,Will iwade still be licensed by the SCB in 2014, or will it be blacklisted like lydd has for many years with riders being advised not to ride there by the SCB!!!

Seeing as the order to install an air fence is an SCB directive, will iwade be issued with a SCB licence in 2014.

So at this moment in time, what is the difference between iwade, a licensed SCB circuit and lydd, a non licensed track. When both of these venues currently run without an air fence.

Will licensed riders still be able to ride at iwade in amateur meetings despite the track not having an air fence.

not according to graham arnold at iwade. at last seasons staging of the british youth championship it was announced that all licensed tracks needed an air fence to stage 500cc racing. smaller sized engines and unlicensed tracks like lydd will not be affected. i think that northside have already installed an air fence.

My thoughts exactly shads. I would have thought that a foam fence would be more practical as regards to maintenance, but i think they cost more than the air type.

What I would like to know is, has the air fence been ordered and will the track be sorted out. Too many meetings were run last season with the circuit down to the base after a few races.

current crowds could not support EL racing at rye, but the added bonus of plenty of local derbies plus the matches against the midlands clubs, could make it an attractive proposition for uncle len.

as a lakeside regular it's good to hear some news from the hammers managment, who have been largely quiet since the last home meeting on august 23rd!.