bloom89 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 25 minutes ago, Tsunami said: Yes I think he did. Pickering did some funny moves and was too fast at times. When he joined Reading he suddenly shot up the table to be one of the highest average riders in our League. In the race in 1990 Wilson, who later took the track record a few years later, missed the gate and was left trailing by the usual fast start Robert in heat 1. Derroll Keats followed him down the back straight and Wilson turned it on, passed Derroll on the back straight and by the time he got to the third bend he was going too fast to properly turn, and just went straight on and hit Robert midships. Robert flew off the bike, landing on his shoulder when he came down. Broken collarbone for Robert and an exclusion for Sean. It was one of the plainest example of a rider just going for the rider and not only should he have been excluded, he should have gone from the rest of the meeting. Unfortunately the ref chickened out and it meant we had to use Dave McAlan for Robert's replacement for the rest of the meeting, but Sean was allowed to stay in the meeting and contributed to our loss on the night. I think I took Robert to the airport home are we had been to the hospital. Being retired I was the one that got those jobs, with both George and Peter working. The worst dirty riding I have seen was the deliberate fencing of Christian Henry on the 4th bend by Magnus Zetterstrom in the early 00's. Christian hurled into fence probably not knowing what had hit him. This time, the ref Stuart Wilson, applied the not often used rule to exclude Magnus, who was not concerned what he had done, from the rest of the meeting. Poor Christian wasn't up to riding after that, having lost a big chunk out of his bum flesh hitting the fence. Horrible smash, only followed by Rene's big smash many years later at the exact same spot. Totally forgot about the Zetterstrom incident! Was an awful move that one.... James Grieves managed to do a Craig Boyce on him though didn't he haha, yeah unfortunately Rene's was horrible too, don't think he ever got over that one massive shame because he looked like he was going to follow Kenni Larsen and move up into the top league etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC67 Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Tsunami said: Yes I think he did. Pickering did some funny moves and was too fast at times. When he joined Reading he suddenly shot up the table to be one of the highest average riders in our League. In the race in 1990 Wilson, who later took the track record a few years later, missed the gate and was left trailing by the usual fast start Robert in heat 1. Derroll Keats followed him down the back straight and Wilson turned it on, passed Derroll on the back straight and by the time he got to the third bend he was going too fast to properly turn, and just went straight on and hit Robert midships. Robert flew off the bike, landing on his shoulder when he came down. Broken collarbone for Robert and an exclusion for Sean. It was one of the plainest example of a rider just going for the rider and not only should he have been excluded, he should have gone from the rest of the meeting. Unfortunately the ref chickened out and it meant we had to use Dave McAlan for Robert's replacement for the rest of the meeting, but Sean was allowed to stay in the meeting and contributed to our loss on the night. I think I took Robert to the airport home are we had been to the hospital. Being retired I was the one that got those jobs, with both George and Peter working. The worst dirty riding I have seen was the deliberate fencing of Christian Henry on the 4th bend by Magnus Zetterstrom in the early 00's. Christian hurled into fence probably not knowing what had hit him. This time, the ref Stuart Wilson, applied the not often used rule to exclude Magnus, who was not concerned what he had done, from the rest of the meeting. Poor Christian wasn't up to riding after that, having lost a big chunk out of his bum flesh hitting the fence. Horrible smash, only followed by Rene's big smash many years later at the exact same spot. I remember that incident. He'd pulled a similar manoeuvre the previous evening at Berwick can't remember rage rider involved but I do remember the " Red Card " incident at BP the next night 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 I'm sure I've commented before but Simon Cross was often guilty of 'over riding'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehone Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Zetterstrom was one of the consistently nasty riders i've seen. back in the 80s it was Preben Eriksen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wealdstone Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Ove Fundin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiveusaB Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Chris Morton on Alan Grahame 1976 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odds On Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 a lot of the examples used on this thread are of specific incidents!....I would say a lot of them are acts of repercussions for the "innocent" rider being targeted for something that had happened previously.....some riders were renowned for having a little black book in the tool box! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney the robin Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 16 hours ago, GiveusaB said: Chris Morton on Alan Grahame 1976 But Al was no saint either GiveusaB. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiveusaB Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Sidney the robin said: But Al was no saint either GiveusaB. Alan was hard, but not dirty imo Sid !? having said that, I was only a kid when he was in his prime, so I wouldn't of had the knowledge to make judgement? As for CM? he admitted that he 'done' Big Al, simply because he wanted to knock him down a peg or two! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedOx69 Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Over the years you see so many you would consider hard but not necessarily dirty. The worst bit of sportsmanship I have ever seen however was from the talentless Rosco . Rosco had little ability but occassionally could gate. On one particular night at Oxford he made the start in front of the recovering from a serious injury Andy Hackett. Hackett, after taking a year out from injury, was just starting to find his feet again. Rosco leading coming out of the fourth bend was struggling to hold Hackett off. As Hackett tried to over take going down the straight, Rosco turned right into the fence. Hackett never had a chance and never rode again, career over. Ironically, Rosco later signed for Oxford but was never accepted and never seemed to understand why. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple.H. Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 I know of someone who had a season ticket but didn't go to meetings as we had signed Mr Rossiter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlata prilba Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 Daniel Nermark could ruffle a few feathers when he was in the mood 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screm Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/30/2020 at 12:22 PM, Odds On said: a lot of the examples used on this thread are of specific incidents!....I would say a lot of them are acts of repercussions for the "innocent" rider being targeted for something that had happened previously.....some riders were renowned for having a little black book in the tool box! These little black books didn't always have other riders name in though did they. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry1603 Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/29/2020 at 8:04 PM, GiveusaB said: Chris Morton on Alan Grahame 1976 I've read a lot about that incident - it just seems to be so out of character for Mort, who was / is a genuinely nice guy ( I know him quite well). Was there any 'previous' between them or something happen earlier in the meeting? Not making excuses for what seemed pretty nasty, just interested in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted February 1, 2020 Report Share Posted February 1, 2020 20 minutes ago, Garry1603 said: I've read a lot about that incident - it just seems to be so out of character for Mort, who was / is a genuinely nice guy ( I know him quite well). Was there any 'previous' between them or something happen earlier in the meeting? Not making excuses for what seemed pretty nasty, just interested in the background. Chris mentions the incident in his book and again in "Backtrack" in that he admitted that the only time he deliberately knocked off an opponent was an early skirmish with Birmingham's Alan Grahame - a pre-meditated act that he very much regretted and never repeated. Apparently Grahame had been particularly robust and Chris saw the "red mist." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) I think there were seven dirty Coventry riders at Poole after the 2010 Elite League Grand Final............ Edited February 2, 2020 by RobMcCaffery 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_art Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 On 1/29/2020 at 8:04 PM, GiveusaB said: Chris Morton on Alan Grahame 1976 Was waiting for that. Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben91 Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 On 1/24/2020 at 8:27 PM, E I Addio said: Even Vissings friend and flat mate Henning Beger said Vissing was a looney and on and off track had a few screws loose. Remember a coming together between Vissing and I want to say Chris Neath at Rye. Vissing somehow ended up on the other side of the fence which was bowed to about half its usual height, he got up and ran to hurdle what was left of the fence but his feet didn’t clear it and he face planted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy1959 Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) Clive Featherby Sheffield Tigers Edited February 2, 2020 by Billy1959 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiveusaB Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 Has Pete Jarman's name been mentioned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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