sjm-racing Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Did Pierre take his father's title then as the count?? Si. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbold Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Count Strachwitz most certainly didn't.But was he the only rider with a title to his name or were there other landed gentry riding speedway bikes? Do you mean this Count Strachwitz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyazinth_Graf...e_und_Camminetz I think you are possibly right if you do. At least I don't remember him riding for New Cross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedyguy Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Count Strachwitz most certainly didn't.But was he the only rider with a title to his name or were there other landed gentry riding speedway bikes? Is the guy who rode in meetings in Paris in the early 1930s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frigbo Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Bengt Brannefors also rode for New Cross. Indeed, I haven't got round to populating the pre '65 part of the database yet...could be a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Do you mean this Count Strachwitz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyazinth_Graf...e_und_Camminetz I think you are possibly right if you do. At least I don't remember him riding for New Cross. Interesting Norbold.I had imagined Count Strachwitz was some obscure guy with a title,rather than someone with a big write up on Wikepedia.Would seem pretty likely that this is the same guy riding speedway pre-war on the continent,if he "inherited the title..."Sounds like he was the only one with a right to call himself by that name at the right time.And then the mention of his sporting prowess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulco Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Who was the the shortest rider Peter Craven, Soren Sjosten,Toby harrysson, Billy Bales anyone know Surely Ian Turner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedyguy Posted October 18, 2009 Report Share Posted October 18, 2009 Jumbo Webb. Raced at California in the late 1950s, may also have moved to Aldershot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 (edited) Is the guy who rode in meetings in Paris in the early 1930s? Am now wondering if maybe Norbolds link is another Count Strachwitz.Maybe this guy was the one riding speedway bikes before the war?He would have been about 30 when he appeared at the Hamburg Dirt Track Arena in 1929 Mauritz von Strachwitz.....had confirmation that it is definitely not Mauritz But if it was Norbold's Count Strachwitz we could have had the anti-Communist facing up to Clem Beckett who was also in Hamburg in 1929.Maybe a more likely meeting,than Clem and Fay the Fascist Edited October 19, 2009 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevePark Posted October 19, 2009 Report Share Posted October 19, 2009 Always thought Martin Scarisbrick (Newcastle) and Graham Tattersall (Barrow) had wonderful names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickthemuppet Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 How about Marshall Pugh who won the San Pardo open in Majorca in 1972 Tallest speedway rider Pete Simmons the now Ipswich team manager who rode for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 Probably one the most "unfortunate" names for a speedway rider would be Ken Last who rode for Norwich in the 60's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTom Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 I agree with Norbold on this one-my vote is for Johnnie Chamberlain. Bob, I thought you were the world's authority on the worlds tallest speedway rider not the shortest! Tom..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTom Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 I remember reading in the local Sheffield Star about the rider called A. N. Other..... Sad to say he must have been the unluckiest rider of all times because on race day he was always replaced!.... Glad this isn't a serious topic!.... Reading some of my old Aussie programs the Masked rider rode a few times. Also there was Slipper Hills an East Coast USA rider along with Rubberlegs Vicario! Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedwaycrazy Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 Surely Bengt Mudgaard (New Cross 1935 -36) has got to be the best ever!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilman70 Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 Crazyhorse Verril - USA late 30' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midland Red Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 There's also Burst Watermain Oh no, he's a figment of Terry Wogan's imagination, isn't he! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 QUOTE (Martin Mauger @ Sep 23 2009, 09:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I remember a German called Walter Grubmuller, may have ridden for Exeter and mostly specialised in grass/long track like most of his countrymen? Well I watched F3 car racing on C5 the other night and there was a young driver with the same name.... Well, he wasn't German; he was Austrian. He did ride for Exeter, though. Steve Just seen the line-up for a meeting in Austria this Saturday and in the "oldies" event is a certain Walter Grubmüller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 Has anyone mentioned Lew Coffin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 One for the old Belle Vue fans...Slider Shuttleworth. If not mentioned years ago...Digger Pugh. This is a very old thread so may have already been mentioned. Billy Bales Trevor Hedge Neville Slee Otto Lantenhammer Colin Pratt Geoff Pusey Zbigniev Podlecki Norrie Isbister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 'Slant' Payling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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