Who likes Speedway the english one on motorbikes?

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Iwas a ardent wimbledon supporter back in the old days Ronnie Moore,Treveor Hedge, Jim Tebby, Cyril Maidment, etc remember the double headers with West Ham in the afternoon then back to Wimbledon for the second leg those were the good odl days also went back there when it reopend and worked on the track staff that was brilliant bein that close to the racing but thanks to Sky we are on the tv now

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it was Ivan Mauger pronouced major

that smell is still the same hair wats that? lolit would be nice to setup a discussion forum on this

Phish · Accepted Answer

I live quite close to Canterbury who had a speedway track, and the team was The Crusaders. Johnny Hoskins who brought speedawy from Australia to Britain was also closely allied with Canterbury.

This was in the mid 70s, and the time of the 'New National League' which was the second divison.

I can remember Rye House Rockets, Newcastle Diamonds, Mildenhall Fen Tigers, Eastbourne Eagles, but there were numerous others.

Reg Luckhurst lived near Canterbury too, and he became an agent for Weslake 4-valve engines, and also rode for the team on a few occasions, this being quite a while after his glory days with Wimbledon Dons.

You got me thinking about this now. I used to go every week during the season, and loved the smell of the 'dope' and the shale in my hair. God!! I had hair then too.....

Jamie S · Answer

Love speedway, got methanol running through my vanes! grew up as a Middlesbrough fan so its been so great to have Redcar open this year, had been travelling to Workington! as your a Wimbledon fan you'll be glad to know Danny Gifford has had a fantastic year and i think should get Redcars rider of the year, but i suspect Havey will be given it!

 The Sky coverage is fantastic, the gps and Elite league, looking forward to the Elite final tonight! i just wish they would extend the coverage to Premier league as the racing is usually a bit more exiting, its just some of the stadium's aren't up to scratch! 

 Do you ever go to Rye House? Stu Robson is a good mate of mine and seems to love riding there, it is a nice track!, never made it to Plough lane though, my mum tells me she used to go on the bus years ago with Boro, back when Bruce Forrester, Rusty Hodgeson etc were in the team!

Colin_Waft · Answer

I used to watch it in the late 70s when it was on World of Sport.  The best rider at theat time I think  was Ivan Magher(?) who was I think  from New Zealand

Anonymous · Answer

Ivan Maujer rode for (amongst others) the Hull Vikings

pubber_77 · Answer

i used to go speedway mainly in the 80s at momore green with riders like peter ravn, john eskildsen bobby shwartz used too have some good encounters with cradley heath with erik gundersen.jan o pedersen ,alan grahame enjoyed it loads still watch it on sky now and again

P felix · Answer

i went every Thursday to Sheffield to watch the tigers and every Saturday to the shay to watch Halifax then Wednesdays at belveaue great sport to watch

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