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Anyone else?

Looks easy enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHHoCDcaww" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And quicker than it looks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEYEn_fpv-4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I gather that it's self-handicapping. The more you win, the further back you start.

Japanese speedway, been around for donkeys years. Don't know about now, but used to be one of their biggest gambling sports with millions of yen being bet on races.

That is the 2nd time I've seen that sport this week...and it makes me laugh..

They all look like, what I imagine, a race between a load of Herman Munster's would look like.

TLS-Moose wrote:Don't know about now, but used to be one of their biggest gambling sports with millions of yen being bet on races.

Twas indeed, but as with much 'gambling' it was fixed by the Yazuka.

Just goes to show if you want to go really quick round corners what you need to do is sit up straight, not lean off, no knee down. make sure you have wonky handle bars and use thin push bike tyres rather then motorbike tyres on a bike with no faring.

Jug_Inspector wrote: They all look like, what I imagine, a race between a load of Herman Munster's would look like.

That's a line you don't see every day!

BTW, you can't use Photobucket to post on 3rd party sites anymore unless you pay $399 per year. None of the photos are showing!

awkwardbydesign wrote:BTW, you can't use Photobucket to post on 3rd party sites anymore unless you pay $399 per year. None of the photos are showing!

Deleted my account today. Cheeky b'stards.

layne wrote:

awkwardbydesign wrote:BTW, you can't use Photobucket to post on 3rd party sites anymore unless you pay $399 per year. None of the photos are showing!

Deleted my account today. Cheeky b'stards.

Apparently there is a way round it, but anything you have posted as a link, over the last umpteen years, will now be blanked out. There are other options like Flickr (which I will be using, although the linking method is fiddly) or Imgur (which has been recommended). I won't be deleting my account because there are so many pictures there, but I won't be paying $399 either!

TLS-Moose wrote:Japanese speedway, been around for donkeys years. Don't know about now, but used to be one of their biggest gambling sports with millions of yen being bet on races.

Like Moose said, all in the name of gambling.

The sport was covered in one of the On Any Sunday films, bikes at the time had British motors (looks like updated to ER6 type motors now), riders were taken to their bikes in a covered truck so they couldn't look at the crowd for bribes/result rigging, plus the spectators watched in silence.