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jes@gcre 
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 Topic: Forest Town TrackPosted: 14 October 2010 at 11:09am |
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Adrian Setter
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 1:27pm |
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I haven't been there - in fact I'd never heard of it. From stuff on Flickr it looks like it might be OK, but being both fairly short and fairly narrow, I guess we'd have to split racing into smaller groups than we normally do.
I've put details on my list.
Anyone got any contact details for the Solihull reack, by the way?
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jes@gcre
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 5:50pm |
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Sorry, Darren should have as he is our Solihull race organiser.
I couldn't find where it said how long that track was. Is it a 250m affair?
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 6:48pm |
I haven't seen anything that says, but from photos I'd guess at the same order as velodromes at Sbunthorpe, Reading, Welwyn and Wolverha... , i.e. 450m or a little more
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 8:04pm |
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From one of the magazine pages
In commemoration of the centenary a prize of £100 was put up by Guy Elliot CEO of DHL Northern Europe for the fastest flying lap (440 yds) this has been won by Martin Smith (Chesterfield Coureurs) in a time of 27.86 secs (51.99kph/32.30 mph). This time will now stand as the track record for any further attempts. So I would assume then 440 yds or 366 metres.
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Yanto63
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 9:33pm |
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I'm going not too far from that neck of the woods on saturday to see my folks nr Sheffield, if i have a bit of time spare i'll divert and see if i can have a look at the condition of the track and the facilities!
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 10:29pm |
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Hi all
I have been reluctent to suggest this track even though I live about 1 mile from it.
I have riden maybe 2 laps of it and IIRC it is in fair condition , however it has neglijable banking [ unlike Scunthorpe say ] and it is near a very rough part of town [ ok rougher than the rough parts ! ]
I don't know who to approach about it's hire or the facilities , I have only seen it being used by schools etc never seen anyone in Lycra riding it.
I can get some photographs taken if they are any help ?
regards Paul
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Posted: 14 October 2010 at 11:17pm |
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Google maps:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=&q=Forest+Town,+Mansfield&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Forest+Town,+Mansfield,+Nottinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&ei=ZIC3TJPqA8K4jAf--f30AQ&ved=0CBsQ8gEwAA&ll=53.151448,-1.160935&spn=0.00139,0.005284&t=h&z=18 Looks like an odd shaped velodrome with 4 sides. Judging by what appears to be graffiti on the track surface backs up stormbird's comments. |
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Posted: 15 October 2010 at 6:51am |
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Sc*nthorpe had suffered from graffiti the morning/night before we got there this year.
just an observation.
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