bankstown trotting track

[Jim]

being a novice at this just seen some bikes coming out of the track, went down and they were packing up,is there a club around there and who are they...looked like a mix of old and new...cheers..jim..

[SON]

Great Venue, Ivan's meeting there was excellent

[vmxrider]

I've only ever seen bikes "racing" as part of the Bankstown motorcycle show at Easter time, oh, and the Ivan Mauger promoted meeting when Jay Springsteen rode his Harley flatracker. Don't know what was going on today?


Easter 2013

[Hoony]

........................................ and the Ivan Mauger promoted meeting when Jay Springsteen rode his Harley flatracker. ......................................

any video of that circulating?

[SlideRulz]

I was there and even cut a few laps myself, 100kg on a crf150, very ugly and very sedate.
A dedicated and persistant group of DT tragics are in negatiations to hold a few meetings there hopefully next year.
Today was pretty much to do some noise testing and monitor track damage.
The bad news is that young Matt Thorne killed TH's Rickman Jawa and Temora now looks unlikely.
I have to say that he looked super impressive on the old girl but maybe 25 laps at full noise in top gear was too much.
Fingers crossed these meetings become a reality.

[SON]

Thanks for the photos
Good luck to all those making an effort to progress DT

[vmxrider]

A dedicated and persistant group of DT tragics are in negatiations to hold a few meetings there hopefully next year.
Today was pretty much to do some noise testing and monitor track damage.
Fingers crossed these meetings become a reality.

That would be awesome!

[Jim]

slidz.....having had a few slow trotters, and done a bit of work on the track ive never seen bikes there before either only 0n good Friday.they normaly have two midget meetings there a year which are limited speed events to save the track surface.but due to the upgrading of menagle and the selling off of Harold park the harness industry is feeling the pinch as well.i have a few beers with the president of the track and they are open to all types of events as they have the lease on the land till 2034 and are trying to survive also, it was the original bankstown showground we used to play footy in the middle.if I can be of any help pm me we can go straight to the source...cheers..jim..

[supersenior 50]

Yes Vern Grayson, Doug Aitchison and I all rode Triumphs at that Bankstow meeting on the full oval. It was great.

[supersenior 50]

Re track damage, they pulled a section of the fence aside at the start of the back straight to allow an "off track" start line, thus avoiding digging holes.

[micks]

yes only the select few got to go.
slides hope you aren`t giving the blue diamond the flick

[Tim754]

You may have noticed that one of my pet hobby horses (no pun intended) is getting a real grasstrack meeting going on one of the MANY under used /disused horse racing facilities around this country. Great to see others actually there!!!!! Very well done!

[SlideRulz]

Never MickS, BWP are playing a part. It is in Bankstown.
I was riding around with the Juniors, until they started passing me.

[SON]

You may have noticed that one of my pet hobby horses (no pun intended) is getting a real grasstrack meeting going on one of the MANY under used /disused horse racing facilities around this country. Great to see others actually there!!!!! Very well done!

Biggest hassle Track Licencing

[Jim]

there are ways of promoting it.it is a council facility to be used by the community,as you say the insurance side of things might be a bit tricky but there are still kids using it some arvos with ponies and sulkies so long as they are in helmet and vests...cheers...