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Any speedway fans on here?

mickmogmickmog
edited October 2010 in Chit chat
C'mon the bees!:-o
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  • ADJBADJB
    edited October 2010
    I used to go and watch Crewe Kings every week until it closed down. Only been to a couple of meetings since.

    It was a Jawa 500 that cost me most of my left knee and put me off racing bikes for life. Still love watching it though.
  • HairyHairy
    edited October 2010
    I hate it, I can just about see it from my window, can definately here it though, sound like a swarm of bees in my ears. :mad:
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited October 2010
    My ex from a fair few years back was heavily into Speedway. She did the main website (or the main fan website) for the Swindon team and kept updating that constantly.

    Never been a fan but seem to have a loyal fanbase
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited October 2010
    Funny you should mention it, for the last couple of months I've been watching it on Sky and really enjoying it. Old sport making a comeback? I used to be able to hear the bikes a few miles away at the old West Ham speedway track, bloody hell that must have been the late sixties / early seventies, makes me feel old. Not sure I'd ever go to a meet although on telly you miss the smells which I imagine can be quite nicely smelly like banger / stock car racing.
  • grey keygrey key
    edited October 2010
    I used to go and watch the Eastbourne Eagles every weekend every season they raced for about 3 years ( about 1971 to 1974 ). I used to bring the full size full colour posters home with me, which were free, and sell them to classmates at school. I should have been a budding Richard Branson, but I somehow never made it. I don't think anything has the same smell as speedway, it is smelly and loud, but the hamburgers with onion gravy in buns, made it worthwhile !
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • 1980-20..1980-20..
    edited October 2010
    Errgh blerggghh dont mention the hamburgers with onions, i went to a meet in Ipswich i think somebody invaders not sure. Anyway some bloke was getting a burger and i was watching the people preparing the food and i looked on in horror as a tin of burgers was opened, a tin of burgers!!!.
  • grey keygrey key
    edited October 2010
    1980-20.. wrote: »
    a tin of burgers!!!.

    Yhay ! A giant tin of burgers in gravy ! Why can't you buy them like that anymore ?:???:
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • festershinetopfestershinetop
    edited October 2010
    My dad took me when i was about 4 years old back in 84-85 and the noise scared the crap out of me so much we had to leave.

    Burgers in tins !! jesus wept, reminds me of my sisters ex who was a C64 programmer and he used to cook burgers in the the toaster.
  • ADJBADJB
    edited October 2010
    grey key wrote: »
    Yhay ! A giant tin of burgers in gravy ! Why can't you buy them like that anymore ?:???:

    http://www.westlerfoods.com/Canned-Burgers.html

    Google and thou shall find.
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited October 2010
    Hmmmm, mechanically recovered meat products :D
  • beanzbeanz
    edited October 2010
    My mom used to date one of the Belle Vue Aces (Manchester) when she was a youngster....she has a bunch of photos of him at home.....looks a little like me...ermmm..
  • grey keygrey key
    edited October 2010
    beanz wrote: »
    My mom used to date one of the Belle Vue Aces (Manchester) when she was a youngster....she has a bunch of photos of him at home.....looks a little like me...ermmm..

    That is the mirror you are looking in, not a photo frame;)
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited October 2010
    Used to go to Cradley Heath Speedway as a kid, not been in nearly 30 years now.

    Used to love the smell!
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