Re: [CR]How many turns on a velodrome?

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From: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]How many turns on a velodrome?
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:30:29 -0800
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      I don't think so. I suspect it came from the almost demise of track racing especially the 6ixes. The revival somewhat of track racing brought along a generation of riders brought up on criteriums and usually they were sqare/rectangular courses, hence turn1,2,3,4 etc. Maybe also a plagiarism from motor car racing with reference to turns? Comments? Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates CA USA


----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Rednor
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:17 PM
Subject: [CR]How many turns on a velodrome?



>
> > BUT, there are only TWO TURNS on a bicycle track/velodrome,
> > PERIOD!
> > Turn one and turn two. GET IT? GOOD!!!
> > From the starting line on the home stretch you are
> > going INTO the first turn, then going OUT of the first turn
> > into the back stretch!!!
> > Then from the back stretch you go into the SECOND turn,
> > then you come out of the SECOND turn and go into the home
> > stretch toward the S/F line. AND THAT'S IT!!!
>
> Ted,
> That is how I learned it as a youth - and how I still visualize it.
> But over the last few years, people have taken to "dissecting" the two
> turns, I suppose in order to distinguish between the entrances and exits.
> Hence, what was once knows as "the entrance to Turn 1" is simply Turn 1;
> and what was once called "the exit of Turn 1" is now called "Turn 2".
> I think this is the result of people visualizing velodromes as if they
> were built from snap-together track, like they would use for slot cars and
> model railroads. Actually, is it possible that velodrome constructors
> always broke down the track in this manner, and eventually their parlance
> reached the track racing "masses"?
> Cheers (?)
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)