MattK Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 ...crapulous and happy and discussing the finer points of Speedway... Should be the strapline of this site. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABS Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Oh dear ...another example of why the public should not get a vote on Europe . Yep, we should leave it all up to Labour, the masters of knowing what's best for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Please please please can people keep their politics to themselves in a sports forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedwaysliders Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Hope one of the promoters send him an invite to a meeting,maybe Jon Cook could get him down to lakeside,on the promise of a go on a speedway bike!!! I can see the headlines now............................!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratton Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Oh dear ...another example of why the public should not get a vote on Europe .Trust the politicians RIGHT on probably one of the most important issues ever.This issue will affect everybody,sure we all need a little more knowledge on the subject so lets have that on both sides of the arguement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhamboy66 Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Once Boris found out that speedway bikes produced noise and were powered not by pedals but an engine he would campaign for the sports banning. God you lot are so gullible. The opportunity to bring back hanging? Mmmm you would trust our police to catch a murderer then have 12 morons vote on the probably innocent persons life or death, another reason to stay in the EU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OveFundinFan Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 (edited) "Once Boris found out that speedway bikes produced noise and were powered not by pedals but an engine he would campaign for the sports banning". Cycle Speedway could do with a big boost as well. Edited August 7, 2014 by OveFundinFan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A ORLOV Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 By the time Boris gets anywhere near PM speedway will be racing electric bikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike.Butler Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Boris the SpRider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pedaler Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 1. How do you fit 300 speedway fans onto a jet with a capacity of 189 (or 187 with someone the size of BoJo on board)? Apart from that little tittle tattle, how about now.. 2. Why not now marry up the wind fall of BoJo's "discovery" of speedway with the need to have someone to champion the cause for change in the sport in the UK. The BSPA won't do it from within, but with a "champion of the cause" like BoJo to knock some heads together, working on behalf of the fans of the sport, maybe some change can be made. This is a guy who governs attention. Love him or hate him, you can't ignore him, and with him on side, you have a powerful ally. It would need of course for it to be politically worthwhile to BoJo and it will need the effort of fans all over the country to make a start by writing / tweeting / e-mailing / facebooking their appreciation for BoJo, the promise of a few rounds of drinks, and maybe someone offering him a night out at a local track to him (god help us, Lakeside?) Get the guy on board, sell to him what's left that's good about the sport, get him to champion the cause in changing what's bad. It's an opportunity. Grasp it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinMills Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 you know how small this sport is, when someone famous mention speedway, and everyone get excited about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 you know how small this sport is, when someone famous mention speedway, and everyone get excited about it! I'm afraid you are right - BUT - every little helps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsloes 1928 nearly Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Just watching Boris giving a speech on Europe, and his opening comments were about his recent flight back from Poland sat with a group of British Speedway fans coming back from the SWC. He then mentioned about not knowing what the sport of speedway was until that point, and the fact Team GB came last . Now that he knows about the sport of speedway, and it's fresh in the mind, might it not be a good idea to remind him of former London Teams, and maybe someone from the BSPA to invite him to Cardiff. Hmm, now don't get me wrong I quite like Boris (as I'm sure most people do) so I'm certainly not slagging hinm off over this - but it does intrigue me how a Londoner of such prominence as he is claims to know nothing about Speedway.. Surely anyone of his age with a personal and professional interest in London must be aware that a major sport in London in the post war era (and I mean post war up to the late '70s...) was stadium-based motorcycle racing: ie Speedway? Is Boris also going to claim he's not heard of Greyhound Racing either? The other week I was listening (as I do when I can most days) to Robert Elms' show on BBC Radio London. Now Robert is THE professional Londoner and his show is an amazing barrage of 'stuff' about London, day in day out: there's no other overarching subject: it's ABOUT London. Robert was talking about a place he went, he thought it was in Hackney Wick, when a youngster where some motor sport was going on... What was the sport; where was the stadium.? FFS - well, callers put him right (I got through but didn't get on air!) - that it was Speedway. And Robert then waxed lyrical on the general subject of not knowing much about Speedway..! Amazing how people seemed to have missed the influence of the sport in the capital city..! Like those people who tell the history of Wembley Stadium without mentioning what were, without question, the two sports which attracted the most spectators there over the years, in terms of total annual numbers, Speedway and the Dogs..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatface Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 I've done a few PR events involving Boris Johnson in London. Whilst I am some distance from him politically, I have to admit he is one of the most charismatic people I have ever met. He is also a quite brilliant orator, one who can charm any audience from fellow politicians to young children. It's what makes him so powerful and potentially, so dangerous. As for his involvement with speedway, I think it best he is ushered back to his blissful ignorance. Speedway takes up land and not very profitable land either. I suspect Boris would see all speedway venues as possible capital and housing projects. Do we want a country of Shards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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