The track was permanent!
The hockey rink was INSIDE the track, on the infield.
The fencing was put up, sealed, and water flooded the infield, and voila!
ice hockey rink.
The hall seated several thousand people and was usually sold out, whether
for a 9-Nite Derby or the Sunday afternoon races during the season.
Ocasionally some guys would come out from the west coast, and ride for a big
event or on way to some other event back east.
The guys would always go to Delhi from either Chicago, Kenosha, Detroit,
Buffalo, New York, New Jersey, Toronto, Montreal, etc. to compete. It was
all category one racing, there were no pros, we were the pro-gram if you'll
allow me some elbow room for writer's license on the track.
Often there were Australians staying for a while to race in Canada on way to
England, as well as French and Italian racers who immigrated to Canada.
It made for good, tough, hard racing, up to european amateur standards.
A typical Sunday program were several mass start events, or an invitational
sprint, miss and out type stuff, and then the feature event, a one hour team
race or madison if you prefer.
Once a year they had a special two hour team race, and once a year was the
9 - Nite Derby contested with professional 6 - Day rules.
Please feel free to ask any Q's if there is something you would like to know
that I didn't mention.
Oh yeah, we used fixed gear track bikes, some bikes had brake holes and some
didn't.
The officials didn't seem to care as long as there were no hand brake parts
on the bike.
The officials were so laid back they didn't even care if you had clean tape
on your bars.
But if your tire rolled off because of stupidity in gluing, they kicked your
ass.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates, CA
> And thus we have the answer to the question, can a bike track fit into the
> footprint of a hockey rink? Yes, indeed it can.
>
> Dan Kehew
> Davis (no ice here) CA
>
> The Delhi Track, Ontario, Canada
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