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Clubroom => Vintage Track => Topic started by: Rosco86 on July 08, 2012, 06:47:42 pm
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Just returned from a quick trip to Melboune. Had the dog as a traveling companion and he needed a walk, so we went for a stroll around the old Granite Park at Seymour. Firstly it was a pity to see it in so much disrepair, obviously even the car club no longer use it. I last raced there in 74/75, so it's been a while, but what blew me away was that my memory hadn't factored in , how big and wide the track was. Makes many present tracks only suitable for mini bikes. Second thing the memory hadn't remembered was that the big sweeper at the end of the straight can't be seen until you are there due to the drop off factor just past the tower. Gives another perspective how good the boys were on the big sliders. Got a 3rd in the sub-junior class at the 73 Vic titles and later rode a Hagon Maico , Maico 440 and cole-Elster around the track and can see now how good it was to have them tapped out, not many tracks I see now would allow that and perhaps why the cook chasers triumphed over the sliders. Modern style mx track out the back is the norm for the day, probably better than the god awful track the Hartwell club built out the back for the Grand National when they lost Christmas Hills.
Must see if I can eyeball the old Romset track on a future trip unless its under houses?
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Yeah Rosco,
What a track!! I raced there heaps during the '70's and loved it. FAST.
And what a fantastic sight it was when the big boys came out to play on 500cc sliders, not forgetting the sound as they came over the rise at full noise and into THAT corner. Geeze I'd love to see that again :'(
regards Mark
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Just returned from a quick trip to Melboune. Had the dog as a traveling companion and he needed a walk, so we went for a stroll around the old Granite Park at Seymour. Firstly it was a pity to see it in so much disrepair, obviously even the car club no longer use it. I last raced there in 74/75, so it's been a while, but what blew me away was that my memory hadn't factored in , how big and wide the track was. Makes many present tracks only suitable for mini bikes. Second thing the memory hadn't remembered was that the big sweeper at the end of the straight can't be seen until you are there due to the drop off factor just past the tower. Gives another perspective how good the boys were on the big sliders. Got a 3rd in the sub-junior class at the 73 Vic titles and later rode a Hagon Maico , Maico 440 and cole-Elster around the track and can see now how good it was to have them tapped out, not many tracks I see now would allow that and perhaps why the cook chasers triumphed over the sliders. Modern style mx track out the back is the norm for the day, probably better than the god awful track the Hartwell club built out the back for the Grand National when they lost Christmas Hills.
Must see if I can eyeball the old Romset track on a future trip unless its under houses?
Type in Barry RD Romsey into Google Maps, Its still there, shame its a golf course and not used as should be >:(
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Have fond memories of that place won the Sub juniors at the televised meeting in 1975 on my RM125S also seeing Herman on a Bultaco mx'er kicking it side ways from the tower into that sweeper
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although i never rode the short circuit at granite park i did ride the MX track in 82' - 84' and remember see it. i reckon it would be a lot of years since they held a meeting there. my Club the Dandenong Motorcycle club had a short circuit at wonthaggi and i used to have a play on that in 79' - about 83' and it went down hill fast through neglect and lack of maintenance fast, i can only imagine how poor the surface of seymour would be now.
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Great photo of GC on ME's bike.
Unfortunately we lost GC just months later, what a rider.
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Great photo of GC on ME's bike.
Unfortunately we lost GC just months later, what a rider.
And a great bloke too.
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Yeah Slides and Pancho,
Geoff Curtis ,..... what a huge loss. Not much more i can say. I do know that it was a privilege and an honor to have had a connection with him. I was there in 1973 when he won the oz title. Like you said Slides, what a rider! What a bloke. Mark
p.s. I would pay a seriously stupid amount of $ to get my old bike back.
Last seen in Junee N.S.W. early '80's
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By the way, G.C. also got the lap record that day.