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Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 987-0-9568618-6-3
Price : £20.00 + £4.50 p+p
Who Gates Wins
In Who Gates Wins :Further lingering stares inside the Speedway Grand Prix Technicolour Dreamcoat, speedway author Jeff Scott again travels the highways and byways of Europe to seek out and savour the body, heart and soul of the increasingly well-hidden speedway world championship universe. Unafraid to gawp trackside, lurk on the terraces, dawdle in the […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 987-0-9568618-6-3
Price : £20.00 + £4.50 p+p
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Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 987-0-9568618-5-6
Price : £20.00 + £4.50 p+p
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Speedway Grand Prix
All our heroes today have become digital apparitions haunting our mobile devices’ screens, even Speedway’s heroes. The fast action thrills, spills and glamour of the Speedway Grand Prix can be seen like never before. But with more and more meetings staged in increasingly remote locations – and as fewer fans get to attend races in […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 987-0-9568618-5-6
Price : £20.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
Price : £10.00 + £3.00 p+p
Born to Rumble
Some combinations of people, places, and things invariably lead to exciting outcomes. Powerful brakeless bikes, grippy shale and daredevil skill frequently combine to thrilling effect. Sensibly most people learn to avoid participating but, then, most people aren’t speedway riders competing in an adrenalin based sport racing at insane speed in close proximity. Unsurprisingly tensions sometimes […]
Author : Jeff Scott
Price : £10.00 + £3.00 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-3-2
Price : £15.00 + £3.00 p+p
Strictly Shale
A most unusual photography book, Strictly Shale portrays the working-class sport of Speedway, tender warts and all, in tucked-away pockets of British hinterlands, countryside and urban fringes. It’s a unique record of the drive and passion of ordinary people pursuing an extraordinary sport. At its simplest, speedway is nothing more than the thrill of four […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-3-2
Price : £15.00 + £3.00 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-2-5
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
26 Shades of Shale
Dominating the broad heights of Speedway, demanding respect, sometimes with painful tenderness but always with a style that engages to completion, author Jeff Scott once again submits another volume of his writing to the fans and followers of Speedway. 26 Shades of Shale takes the reader on another whirlwind tour of the British Speedway scene […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-2-5
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-1-8
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
#speedwaylife
In our digital world, much communication quickly goes in the bin. Messages, off-the-cuff opinions and e-mails have life spans of seconds. Nothing remains but an eternal present pimping for a wanton future. With a touch as tender and sure as a mortician’s hand, editor Jeff Scott preserves the ephemeral controversies and joys of a speedway […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-1-8
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-0-1
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Bouquet of Shale
As the tender buds emerge from their long winter sleep, so too do the methanol-fuelled speedway bikes emerge from their workshops in preparation for another season of ear-caressing and nostril-bewitching racing excitement. Also emerging from his writer’s cocoon, albeit less tenderly and with less noise, is Jeff Scott, speedway author and fan ordinaire. With his […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9568618-0-1
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-9-3
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Shale Trek
To boldly go where no other series of sports books has gone before … In Shale Trek, Jeff Scott flings himself into another manic odyssey to the centre of the speedway universe to provide another quirky state-of-the-nation overview of its British speedway clubs and the culture that surrounds them. Travelling the length and breadth of these […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-9-3
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-8-6
Price : £4.99 + £3.00 p+p
The British Speedway Track Directory & Guidebook
The must-have handy glove compartment sized, full colour guide to British Speedway, edited by well travelled speedway author, Jeff Scott. Across 80 information packed pages – with 90 colour – the British Speedway Track Directory & Guidebook provides the definitive information resource on every British speedway track and last word on everything you’ll need to […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-8-6
Price : £4.99 + £3.00 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-7-9
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Quantum of Shale
Like a medieval astrologer peering at the heavens, author Jeff Scott continues to interpret the cycles, epicycles, and motorcycles of the spinning planets of Speedway in this his latest book: Quantum of Shale. As he engages with the myriad social and cultural gears that power this unique engine of British sport, Scott seeks to determine whether […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-7-9
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-5-5
Price : £5.00 + £3.00 p+p
Speedway Yearbook 2008
Methanol Press SPEEDWAY YEARBOOK 2008, Edited by Robert Bamford It’s comprehensive, definitive and packed with useful information. The book covers all British Leagues – Elite, Premier and Conference – as well as all major meetings in Britain and Internationally along with complete coverage of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. It also includes a review of the […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-5-5
Price : £5.00 + £3.00 p+p
Showered in Shale
One man’s circuitous journey throughout the country in pursuit of a minor obsession – British Speedway Coverage of 30 British League tracks Quirky stories galore, the odd rant and captivating photos Plus exclusive interviews with: promoters, managers, riders, obsessive collectors, a vicar, photographers, referees, start girls &, most importantly, fans & aficionados of speedway! 508 […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-0-0
Price : £20.00 + £4.50 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-1-7
Price : £10.00 + £3.00 p+p
When Eagles Dared
Methanol’s latest book is called When Eagles Dared: A Whimsical Account from the terraces behind Board 51 (and lurking at tracks elsewhere) of a Triumphant Eastbourne Speedway season with ultimate success missed by a merest Cat’s Whisker that features those handlebar heroes: Nicki, Floppy, Mooro, Deano, Watty, Shieldsy plus bosses, Cooky and Geery, and a […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-1-7
Price : £10.00 + £3.00 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-3-1
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Shifting Shale
Like the modern-day gladiators of motorcycle speedway, author, observer and minutiae obsessive Jeff Scott goes round in circles, Shifting Shale – just like his fearless heroes. Only the shale he is shifting is not the pinky gloopy stuff which adorns the tracks in the rundown stadiums of broken dreams but his masterwork Showered in Shale – a […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-3-1
Price : £10.00 + £3.00 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-2-4
Price : £9.99 + £3.00 p+p
Shale Britannia
The most unusual speedway photography book ever published will feature shots of every track in the country and be available for purchase from the start of June. The book will tell the story of a typical meeting starting with empty stadiums, it will cover all aspects of the build up before moving onto an exciting […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-2-4
Price : £9.99 + £3.00 p+p
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-6-2
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p
Concrete for Breakfast
Jeff Scott serves up yet another portion of methanol-inspired lunacy to satisfy your speedway-craving appetite with his latest book Concrete for Breakfast. Scott continues to validate the sport’s authenticity as he celebrates the romance of its racing, the bravery of its competitors, and the idiosyncrasies of its partisans on and off the track. Succumb to […]
Author : Jeff Scott
ISBN : 978-0-9553103-6-2
Price : £10.00 + £4.50 p+p