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A bet with team mate Steve Johnston said that if he raised £1000 for cancer reasearch he would shave his head.
However on the night a collection raised over £1500 and team mate Johnston happily did the honours of shaving Nicholls head.
Any pictures anyone has would be greatly appreciated. All copyrights must be acknowledged however.
Brilliant season for the brummies. We all didn’t expect Birmingham to have such a good season as this one, considering at the start we had such little home advantage. All the riders have done well for us, but for me Jason Lyons has been terrific. Without him i`m not-sure whether we would have achieved what we have done. Two finals (premier trophy, Young Shield) and second in the league is great, only the fact we were unable to finish our fixtures before the cut off was the only reason we were unable to reach the play offs. Well done Tony mole and Graham Drury and the brummie riders who have been a joy to watch.
Ok only 1 more meeting left at Berwick and with only 3 riders left on the team we are probably looking at a major defeat.
However to perhaps there is one good thing which has came out of this bad season ending. Peter Waite, Berwicks Promotor, has finally got his finger out (excuse the phrase) and officially released a signing for the 2008 season. However after seeing the rider ride at Edinburgh and then again at Berwick last Saturday i will say that perhaps he needs a little bit more time to practice before he moves into full PL speedway.
Here is an article I read in the Daily Mirror after first hearing about the incident on the Berwick Speedway Website :
A czech speedway rider who could barely speak English became suddenly fluent after a head injury.
Matej Kus could hardly string a sentence together until he was knocked out racing in Glasgow.
It is thought to be a case of foreign accent syndrome, which can affect concussion patients.
Hello people I am just gona use this blog thing as a one off to tell you all that i think the support everyone has given Garry Stead since his accident is really great and also that I wish him well for the future!
Also his crash is new available to view online at : http://www.garrystead.com/film_clips.htm
it pretty bad so some people might not wanna watch it!
—- 29/06/2007 —-
The run up to this weekend and this years British Grand Prix were much more exciting for me than the run up to last years. Obviously this year I knew what the whole experience was going to be like and knew just how great it really was. The days running into the weekend were filled with thoughts of who was going to race and how much i wished i had £1500+ to bid on the chance to bein Hans Andersons pit crew for the GP.
News from New Zealand today has saddened the Berwick Speedway communtiy with the announcement that former Bandit, Roy Williams has passed away.
Roy, who first appeared with the Bandits in 1968 under the name of Bernie Lagrosse, continued with Berwick through 1969 and 1970, becoming a reliable and often top scorer.
News says he passed away in Christchurch, New Zealand on June 30th 2007 and all associated with Berwick Speedway send their heartfelt condolences to Roy’s family and friends.
I am happy to announce that Speedway-Blog.co.uk will now provide a FREE forum for all teams who do not currently have forums.
People can easily request that a forum is created in http://www.speedway-blog.co.uk/forum area by using the request page located at : http://www.speedway-blog.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=3.0
We will then create a new Sub-Forum for this team. However if in the future we feel that the forum is becoming very popular we will transfer the forum to: http://www.speedway-blog.co.uk/teamname-forum
As you will all well know Bomber got his first GP victory this weekend and I would personally like to congratulate him on this!
Also I would like to talk about just how well he performed through-out the whole evening and he showed much skill when riding against top riders such as Nikki Pederson and Jason Crump.
Hopefully this will not be his last GP victory!!
I hope you will all leave words of encouragement below in comments.