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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: vmxrider on January 19, 2011, 12:46:54 pm
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Rather than wait till race day to test out a freshly rebuilt engine, adjust jetting, suspension etc where do you go to have a test ride.
I live in Sydney and Menai is handy and free but risky, apart from that its Appin or Pacific park.
Sometimes only need a 10-15 minute ride as a check, and a few spins around the block will eventully upset the neighbours.
If you live in the country would be easy, not so easy in the suburbs. :-[
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Its a secret
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Mostly up & down the street where my workshop is in Enfield.
For a more testing ride I go to a mates 180 acre property out at Greendale near Wallacia.
Sadly he has only recently put it up for sale at $3m, so I'll be looking around for somewhere else soon.
If there are any money bags out there looking for a property close to Sydney this is the one for you, large machinery shed, 2 bedroom relocatable home, a full motocross track and a supercross track.
You can't forget your mates though.
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meani and bangor just mainly plug chops have heaps of bush next to my house
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My backyard.
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back paddock
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Same as Nathan
SlideRulz...Good luck to your mate but nothing is selling out here ( i live nearby ) had my place on the market for over 12 mths now
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It's a former Cattle Stud and apparently someone has put a deposit already.
I'm in the wrong business.
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On the farm, 250 acres of rolling pastures and wandering creek. Or down the road is 200 acres of un-developed land. Or if I want a blast for safari style roads I can ride through to Beaudesert over roads similar to MacDonald ranges. Or I can shoot over to Tivoli if I want to be bashed about on a crap Aust style mx track. Or 1 1/4 hrs up the road to Echo Valley. Or 2 hrs from Conondale or 24hrs from Warrnambool. Take your pick.
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Maybe thats where your going wrong V man....if you did testing you might finnish a race....or a lap!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Private practice track. Roughly 20-30 acres of rolling natural cattle pastures with some big hits dug into the hillside here & there, a couple of table tops for the nutters on moderns. The best bit is that you can treat it like a full on mx track with the jumps & woops, or just go around them on the grass for a great grasstrack practice. Took a while to build, we had an excavator for a couple of days making some berms and helping with the tabletops. We have a watering trailer with a nice honda pump on it, & a decent tractor with a bucket to fix up erosion ruts & what not.
There's an enduro loop at one end of the acreage where the bush hasn't been cleared. Only takes about 3 minutes to get around, but it's great practice for cornering & braking.
We kick the cows out and off we go. The downside is that they don't take their shit with them!
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The BMX track across the road.
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Sons bush/creek block smallish about 7 hectares with the attached crown land... ;) and has a some whole new designs now that the flood waters have receded :-[
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I have my own MX track where I live
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The BMX track across the road.
BMX Track across the road!
That sounds like early 80's Supercross practice to me :D
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Gives the little buggers incentive to peddle harder too.......
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My backyard, with two MX tracks.