Indoor MX news

[vmxrider]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/the-standard/new-5m-indoor-motocross-park-planned-for-eastern-creek/news-story/d2815d560d9dc6b583c91aa881048e0f

[matcho mick]

 ,sounds good,indoor arena bigtime i guess 

[James Lee]

Sounds amazing, Im sure it will be popular and hopefully more of these pop up around the country.

[skypig]

Getting any practice in on a MX bike is very difficult these days.
The local track runs practice like a race day. Most of the day is sitting around waiting for your "turn".

If I had somewhere I could just show up, ride till I was "finished" (2 x 5 min sessions ATM) and go home, I'd buy a new MX bike. (To go with the 2 I ride now, very occasionally.)

[KTM47]

Getting any practice in on a MX bike is very difficult these days.
The local track runs practice like a race day. Most of the day is sitting around waiting for your "turn".

If I had somewhere I could just show up, ride till I was "finished" (2 x 5 min sessions ATM) and go home, I'd buy a new MX bike. (To go with the 2 I ride now, very occasionally.)

What makes you think this will be any different.  The local tracks will probably use MA insurance so they can't mix Junior and Senior and will have a limit on the numbers on the track at one time.  You also can't mix the age groups of Juniors so it will be Junior 50s and 65s, then Junior 85/150 and maybe Junior Lites, then at least one lot of Senior riders.  The only thing that will make it better is that there are three tracks.  However limited space will probably mean they will be very Stadium MX/SX orientated.

[skypig]

Getting any practice in on a MX bike is very difficult these days.
The local track runs practice like a race day. Most of the day is sitting around waiting for your "turn".

If I had somewhere I could just show up, ride till I was "finished" (2 x 5 min sessions ATM) and go home, I'd buy a new MX bike. (To go with the 2 I ride now, very occasionally.)

What makes you think this will be any different.  The local tracks will probably use MA insurance so they can't mix Junior and Senior and will have a limit on the numbers on the track at one time.  You also can't mix the age groups of Juniors so it will be Junior 50s and 65s, then Junior 85/150 and maybe Junior Lites, then at least one lot of Senior riders.  The only thing that will make it better is that there are three tracks.  However limited space will probably mean they will be very Stadium MX/SX orientated.

Yes.
I'm living in the past, where I could go to the track any day and just ride around.
Before double jumps etc, we could mix speeds/ages on the track with just the smallest amount of courtesy and common sense. Oh, I see where I'm going wrong.

Just a crazy old man, living in the past.

[micks]

how about this idea    use the empty masters buildings

[KTMaico]

I think the problem is each sport gets it's own facilities and that gets very expensive and there is a lot less tracks, clubs and generally places to ride like back in the 70's
I have often thought that certain sports could share the same facilities like Aussie Rules, Soccer , Rugby League and Rugby Union could use the same facilities and it would certainly be cheaper. Now my suggestion is that there is a hell of lot of Golf Courses around Australia and some of them have course lighting so the course could be used at night. The answer is obvious to me that golf and VMX would go hand in hand, we can also make the course more challenging for the Golfer.

Kevin

[Oldfart]

Noise is the only issue Kev :-)

[KTMaico]

Noise is the only issue Kev :-)

In the old days noise was the issue too, you could only get 15-25 minutes in before the cops turned up and you had to flee (just kidding)

Every time I see a golf course I always think "how much fun it would be to ride it"

[allan hughes]

gold coast mx club stanmore on a thursday practice
your 0nly worry will be too much track time  ftw al

[80-85 husky]

Every time I see a golf course I always think "how much fun it would be to ride it"

oooohhh yyyeeeaaahhhh

[Lozza]

Now my suggestion is that there is a hell of lot of Golf Courses around Australia and some of them have course lighting so the course could be used at night. The answer is obvious to me that golf and VMX would go hand in hand, we can also make the course more challenging for the Golfer.

Kevin

Golf courses are doing it tough now so we just need to hang in there for a bit and one might go bust ,cue the bikes

[80-85 husky]

ive always thought of keeping an eye out for one just about to "remodel" the course and then put on a big hare and hound ...$$ to the golf club...there is always a good bar and food facilities... got it all happening I rekon...the first lap on the smooth grass..the jumps...ideal

[matcho mick]

bitd we kids used to ride our pushies to local golf course when it rained,doing sideways skids on the wet greens,that ended when the head greenkeeper chased us in his ute ,d/barrell shotie with salt petre,slower mate copped both barrells in in the dierre,didn't sit down for a while ha ha 
ps kept that to myself,worked there as a groundsman in the early 70's