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Wasn't it Suzanne? Girlfriend of Hans of that ilk?

You have evidence?

No chance - two speedway bikes are quite a weight in scrap metal.

Moving up to the EL was a disaster for Birmingham (twice - same in 1976) so Kent would be very ill-advised to repeat this.

He told me that he was born in Poland but he seems to live in this country now. There seems to be far too many NL riders in these two teams ...

Chris Holder warned Chris Bambury that the track was very slippery - and it was! Chris B pulled off the best overtake of the night, past two riders, but then slid off; another rider hit him. Chris rode in his next heat in considerable pain; it was thought that he had fractured his arm, but a check-up in hospital later on showed that it was just severe bruising.

I was faced with someone telling me that they won't go to NL speedway at Birmingham because its so much slower (10 seconds a race I was told). In actual fact, the NL track record is 4 seconds slower than the all time EL/PL one - I defy anyone to say they would notice a second a lap. |I drew the conclusion that that was just an excuse not to go to NL speedway, however entertaining it might be. Times at Birmingham this year have been only 1 or 2 seconds slower than the ELITE league! No-one had ever got near Jason Lyons' PL track record,

Age 16, junior speedway champion, from Bristol.

There are plenty of lines round Perry Barr, but I suppose that the NL riders haven't found them yet! Cradley is in Birmingham ... the track is two miles south of M6 Junction 7, on the A34. Don't follow satnav as this will have you wandering round the back end of Aston!

No. You saw last Wednesdays result?

What's it got to do with me? Why are you being an idiot?

There's a note about this in the Brummies Forum.

British Racing Green dates back to before the First World War: it is actually Irish, after the Ulster TT races.

He looked very good at the P&P day.

All of which is true, of course, but the only transport which we have is my car, and most of the cost comes from my pension, so we don't go much further than Scunthorpe, Kings Lynn or Rye House for training or amateur racing. If Chris was to get into a team there would be no problem, except for the effort.

He has been riding in Scunthorpe amateur meetings, at first in the novice class, then Support when he got too good for that; he won a couple of races last time out. Northside and Redcar are a bit far for us; we are from Birmingham. I was hoping that Chris could join a Brummies MDL team, although this is still up in the air at the moment, as this is much closer than Scunny!.

I know all about that; the bike on the left is legal and up to date, and its rider has his licences. While it is true that some of the 'Novice' riders are riding for fun, some of them, and probably all of the 'Support' and 'Open' riders, are trying to progress in speedway, and are looking to 'move up' into the NJL. Our rider (Chris Bambury) says that he will ride for any team which will have him!

Well, you're correct about No.6!

There should be riders in the amateur racing set-ups who can move up into the MDL, just as riders move from MDL to NL.

Shock horror! Yew cannot be serious!

Does Buxton do any training days for any riders?

Plenty ...

Also, try Facebook/Scunthorpe Amateur Speedway. There is plenty of information about training on this (They seem to have stopped using this forum).

You can ride a 500cc bike at 15. You don't say if you have a bike or not? If not, the best thing is to go to Wayne Carter's training school at Scunthorpe, and have him show you the basics on the mini-track with a hired bike. After that, if you buy a bike, there are training schools at Scunthorpe, Rye House, Peterborough etc: see the tracks' web sites. You can hire 500cc bikes but it is expensive.

Something like this was tried at Birmingham back in the seventies/eighties - a thick rope was laid behind the back wheels as the riders came to the tapes. What happened was that the riders fought and struggled to get their wheels over the rope again! Unless the riders are forced to cooperate, nothing will change. This was the reason for the tape-touching, as opposed to breaking, rule. Did ... A couple of years ago, the start marshal tried to make Iversen come to the tapes (he was trying to get a flyer). When the start marshal tried to pull Iversen's wheel forwards, Iversen tried to hit him! Again, referees must make the riders cooperate.