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....bored at work, so having a bit of a moment...feel free to add to the list....for me...

 

The smell of Castrol R

Individual Leathers

Monkey masks

Upright engines

Cutting tyres

Coming home plastered in dirt and not caring.

Standing up against safety fence only inches from riders.

Meaningful second halves

Golden Helmet

Race Jackets with a simple, clear large design that stands out.

Russian Touring teams.

Louder bikes

Deeper tracks

Less rain offs

Fans covered in badges, rosettes, and year bars down to their knees ;-) Although some bloke from Rye House was giving it a good go last week at Somerset :-)

Collecting autographs because it meant something back then.

Test matches against the USA

Exeter

Bradford

Hull

White City

Bristol

Weymouth

Newport

Cradley

Oxford

Reading

Halifax

Characters

Fisty cuffs and hand bags

Cheese and onion rolls from back straight of Blunsden.

 

Enough nostalgia for now.....

 

 

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....bored at work, so having a bit of a moment...feel free to add to the list....for me...

 

The smell of Castrol R

Individual Leathers

Monkey masks

Upright engines

Cutting tyres

Coming home plastered in dirt and not caring.

Standing up against safety fence only inches from riders.

Meaningful second halves

Golden Helmet

Race Jackets with a simple, clear large design that stands out.

Russian Touring teams.

Louder bikes

Deeper tracks

Less rain offs

Fans covered in badges, rosettes, and year bars down to their knees ;-) Although some bloke from Rye House was giving it a good go last week at Somerset :-)

Collecting autographs because it meant something back then.

Test matches against the USA

Exeter

Bradford

Hull

White City

Bristol

Weymouth

Newport

Cradley

Oxford

Reading

Halifax

Characters

Fisty cuffs and hand bags

Cheese and onion rolls from back straight of Blunsden.

 

Enough nostalgia for now.....

 

 

Super list!

 

I miss most of all the collection of people I used to stand with on the third bend at Cowley.

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Rayleigh

 

Barrow (both), Boston, Bradford, Canterbury, Cradley Heath, Crewe, Edinburgh (Powderhall) Ellesmere Port, Exeter, Hackney, Halifax, Hull (both)

 

Rayleigh

 

Leicester (Blackbird Road), Long Eaton, Milton Keynes (both), Newport, Oxford, Paisley, Reading, Rochdale, Romford, Sunderland, Wetmouth, Wembley, White City, Wimbledon.

 

Okay - Crayford too :wink:

 

I'm sure I've missed a few.

 

Oh and, affordable speedway, tactical substitutes, World Finals, October BLRC at Belle Vue, test matches.

 

And.... Rayleigh.

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Wolves v Cradley.

 

It angers me that we could and should still be experiencing that right now.

I was talking to a Wolves fan only this last week who told me that Dudley Wood hadn't been developed. I thought that it had been built upon (Barrett's Homes?) years ago?

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and team riding

Ah but had you watched Wednesday's speedway extravaganza on Sky , from God's country , you would have saw that happen twice for 5-1's :drink:

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I was talking to a Wolves fan only this last week who told me that Dudley Wood hadn't been developed. I thought that it had been built upon (Barrett's Homes?) years ago?

Sadly not true. The site is a housing estate. See here - Stadium Drive enters the old site.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dudley+Wood+Rd,+Dudley,+West+Midlands+DY2+0DJ/@52.4753557,-2.085127,437m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487090d3a23df6df:0x4bfae89754e4afde!8m2!3d52.4759743!4d-2.0866878

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I did so I know it's still possible :P

Aaron Summers does it quite a lot at Glasgow , carrying on that tradition so wonderfully carried out during Shane Parker's reign at Ashfield

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Rayleigh

 

Barrow (both), Boston, Bradford, Canterbury, Cradley Heath, Crewe, Edinburgh (Powderhall) Ellesmere Port, Exeter, Hackney, Halifax, Hull (both)

 

Rayleigh

 

Leicester (Blackbird Road), Long Eaton, Milton Keynes (both), Newport, Oxford, Paisley, Reading, Rochdale, Romford, Sunderland, Wetmouth, Wembley, White City, Wimbledon.

 

Okay - Crayford too :wink:

 

I'm sure I've missed a few.

 

 

Well done, from a personal point of view I'd forgotten Powderhall and Paisley.

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