Re: [CR]The world of velodromes

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:14:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jay Van De Velde" <jaysportif@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]The world of velodromes
To: WD Baseley <wdb@pobox.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20031216140840.00b61088@pop.mindspring.com>


Here's a "ride report" of the Vandedrome (no relation): http://members.aol.com/velodromes/Vandedrome/musings.htm

Jay Van De Velde Seal Beach, CA

WD Baseley <wdb@pobox.com> wrote: At 07:06 PM 12/16/2003 +0900, Dennis Young ushered forth:
>Here is a interesting site listing most, if not all(?) the velodromes in the
>world, past and present.

Great link, thanks!
> I learned that my local track in Matsumoto has 34
>degree turns. I'd like to check out the tracks with 47 degree banks, and
>the one in Casablanca. It lists something called the "Vandedrome" in
>Colorado, 1995-, portable, 125-155 meters, wood, 53 degree turns. Wow, 53
>degree turns! Anyone ever ride there? It must be like surfing the north
>shore in Hawaii.

I did a (semi-)loaded tour through the Adirondacks of New York a few years back, and our return trip took us past a "bicycle summer camp" run by Mike Fraysse in the New York hills just off the Delaware River. We stopped in, and he was a most gracious host. He told us about a portable velodrome he had. Wooden track surface, very short, very steep. Turns out it was set up in the woods about a mile from his "camp". We tooled over and I did a few laps, bags and all. It was very very steep, much steeper than Lehigh County Velodrome, so steep that I made sure I was moving at a good pace before going up onto the banking. And the wooden surface was pretty rough. Racing on that track must be absolutely wild.

rgds, Dave Baseley, dodging ice melting from the trees in Berks County PA

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