ciderman Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 Just wondering what the average speedway bike weighs when in full race trim including fuel, anybody know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Smith Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Minimum weight regulation is 77kg + 1% to include fuel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 I didn't know the regulation but was going to guess around 75kg based on lifting one off my mate First Bend Smiff on a regular basis many years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Minimum weight regulation is 77kg + 1% to include fuel I didn't know the regulation but was going to guess around 75kg based on lifting one off my mate First Bend Smiff on a regular basis many years ago What the hell are kg? Could someone PLEASE translate this in to English. Bloody foreign rubbish. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*JJ Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 What the hell are kg? Could someone PLEASE translate this in to English. Bloody foreign rubbish. About 2.2 pounds, I believe. So a bike should weigh about one and a half hundredweight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 What the hell are kg? Could someone PLEASE translate this in to English. Bloody foreign rubbish. I've mentioned before that I'm a scientist. Even American scientisits use kg rather than a weight based on Roman soldiers testicles (or something) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erniew Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Ian, multiply kg by 2.23 and you will get it in pounds, spare a thought for us who have to work in imperial and metric at work. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Ian, multiply kg by 2.23 and you will get it in pounds, spare a thought for us who have to work in imperial and metric at work. You have my sympathy my friend. :sad: I'm afraid I was brought up on Pounds and Ounces/Feet and Inches. This Metric foreign crap means nothing to me - and I'm too old and set in my ways to change now. Imperial Measures were good enough for me at School and in my youth - I have never accepted Metric and I don't suppose I ever will. I apologise to those who have never known anything else but Metric. I am only expressing how I feel. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Metric is much easier to understand. I'm 50 so not a kid. I was educated in both but imperial measurements are completely illogical so prefer metric, unless I'm telling someone my height at 6'5" sounds more impressive than 1.96 metres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwatcher Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 You have my sympathy my friend. :sad: I'm afraid I was brought up on Pounds and Ounces/Feet and Inches. This Metric foreign crap means nothing to me - and I'm too old and set in my ways to change now. Imperial Measures were good enough for me at School and in my youth - I have never accepted Metric and I don't suppose I ever will. I apologise to those who have never known anything else but Metric. I am only expressing how I feel. White Knight. I agree with you. Why they ever got rid of fett, inches, pounds weight and pounds shillings and pence. I will never know. Some shop assistants I have seen these days, can't add up in the new coinage would hate to think of the mess they would make with the old money. Luckily for me being in engineering I had to learn to use the new metric system when it came in. It was hard work when you had drawings coming onto the shop floor with some measurements in metric and some in imperial. Like everything else in life things change, not always for the better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 White Knight. I agree with you. Why they ever got rid of fett, inches, pounds weight and pounds shillings and pence. I will never know. Some shop assistants I have seen these days, can't add up in the new coinage would hate to think of the mess they would make with the old money. Luckily for me being in engineering I had to learn to use the new metric system when it came in. It was hard work when you had drawings coming onto the shop floor with some measurements in metric and some in imperial. Like everything else in life things change, not always for the better. I still change the money back in to 'old' money in my head. £1-12-0d for a Newspaper (Telegraph) is bloody ridiculous. :angry: :mad: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwatcher Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 I still change the money back in to 'old' money in my head. £1-12-0d for a Newspaper (Telegraph) is bloody ridiculous. :angry: :mad: Same here when I get a bag of buttons for the grandkids that used to be a tanner and now they are half a quid a packet. That dosen't boil down to infaltion to me jst sheer greed on the manifacters part. As you say I can remember the Daily Scetch at 3d. Not sure what a paper cost now as I stopped buying them. Save the forests. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryn Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 I still change the money back in to 'old' money in my head. £1-12-0d for a Newspaper (Telegraph) is bloody ridiculous. :angry: :mad: So why not subscribe to the Telegraph 'Web Pack' at something like £20 a year? Go to: www.telegraph.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Eye Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 So why not subscribe to the Telegraph 'Web Pack' at something like £20 a year? Go to: www.telegraph.co.uk/ How much is that in Groats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 (edited) So why not subscribe to the Telegraph 'Web Pack' at something like £20 a year? Go to: www.telegraph.co.uk/ Because I only bought the Telegraph the other day for something to read on the 'Bus. Edited March 7, 2014 by The White Knight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Couldn't find a horse & cart then white knight? ✌️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piston197 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I blame the Victorians for starting it all off, the Florin ( 2 shilling piece if you are under 50) came in to replace the Half crown in or around 1850 as an attempt to implement metric/decimal reasoning i.e 10 to the pound,It failed spectacularly with the Half Crown hanging around till 1967, however I suppose the 10P piece is the new Florin as it is still there at 10 to the pound ? so it only took just over 100 years to wear us down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I blame the Victorians for starting it all off, the Florin ( 2 shilling piece if you are under 50) came in to replace the Half crown in or around 1850 as an attempt to implement metric/decimal reasoning i.e 10 to the pound,It failed spectacularly with the Half Crown hanging around till 1967, however I suppose the 10P piece is the new Florin as it is still there at 10 to the pound ? so it only took just over 100 years to wear us down. It would have taken a lot longer than that if it had been down to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Eye Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Luddite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Luddite. No mate - BRITISH!!!! :approve: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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