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Offline Hoony

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VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« on: July 05, 2009, 05:13:22 pm »
Heres a fun thread one for the historians among us.

just wondering about Victorian MX tracks from Past and present,  when they started and when they finished, need facts if possible and if a year is not known put approximately before it

i will start the list and if you want to add to it feel free but please copy and paste, and then add your detail to the bottom of the (Pasted) list

there is probably many more that escape me at present. need some help here from blokes like KB171, Albrid3, 2Shocks MR Maico, HL400 etc.

Wonthaggi from 1975 - Present (i know, I'm a 30 year member)
Barrabool (Geelong)
Ravenswood (Bendigo)
Monza Park (Ballarat)
Newry
Yarram
Lakes Entrance
Outtrim (Korumburra)
Rosebud
Maryborough
Merriang (Myrtleford)
Mortlake
Warrnambool
Traralgon
Taggerty (Alexandra)
Granite Park Raceway (Seymour)
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 05:25:14 pm »
Hoony,
Great minds thin alike. ;)

One of my co-workers is a soon to retire 64 year old ex "Scramble" rider from the 60's and he can quiet clearly (in detail) tell me about inner city Melbourne tracks that no longer exist. I was hoping to get some imagery and GPS co-ordinates of the locations and work out someway to archive the information. I spoke to Firko some time back about this trying to come up with a way of documenting the info and i am still a little lost as the best way to go about it.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2009, 05:31:07 pm »
G'day Bahnster, yeah i agree it would be nice to document all this stuff. for me i am just plain curious about it after seeing some old footage a while ago about some tracks i never heard of. i am interested to see what some of our other members come up with.

a few inner city tracks i have heard of are as follows at the bottom. would like to keep it to Race tracks rather than practice tracks.

Wonthaggi from 1975 - Present
Barrabool (Geelong)
Ravenswood (Bendigo)
Monza Park (Ballarat)
Newry
Yarram
Lakes Entrance
Outtrim (Korumburra)
Rosebud
Maryborough
Merriang (Myrtleford)
Mortlake
Warrnambool
Traralgon
Taggerty (Alexandra)
Granite Park Raceway (Seymour)
Newtown (Ballarat)
Springvale
Beaconsfield
Pakenham
Longwarry
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2009, 05:36:22 pm »
Apparaently the Nissan dealership in FernTree Gully sits on a track that existed back in the 50' - 60's.
Have heard about races being run there but exact loaction and pictures are near on impossible to come by.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2009, 06:17:41 pm »
frankston and the two best tracks ,christmas hills and wallan.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2009, 06:39:01 pm »
Wonthaggi from 1975 - Present
Barrabool (Geelong)
Ravenswood (Bendigo)
Monza Park (Ballarat)
Newry
Yarram
Lakes Entrance
Outtrim (Korumburra)
Rosebud
Maryborough
Merriang (Myrtleford)
Mortlake
Warrnambool
Traralgon
Taggerty (Alexandra)
Granite Park Raceway (Seymour)
Newtown (Ballarat)
Springvale
Beaconsfield
Pakenham
Longwarry
Christmas Hills
Wallan
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2009, 08:00:44 pm »
Here`s a few more Hoony.

Wonthaggi from 1975 - Present
Barrabool (Geelong)
Ravenswood (Bendigo)
Monza Park (Ballarat)
Newry
Yarram
Lakes Entrance
Outtrim (Korumburra)
Rosebud
Maryborough
Merriang (Myrtleford)
Mortlake
Warrnambool
Traralgon
Taggerty (Alexandra)
Granite Park Raceway (Seymour)
Newtown (Ballarat)
Springvale
Beaconsfield
Pakenham
Longwarry
Christmas Hills
Wallan
Bacchus Marsh
Melton x 2 Tracks (1 is present)
Tooleen (Heathcote)
Breakwater (Geelong)
Broadford
Castlemaine

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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2009, 08:02:44 pm »
some of the northern tracks, St .Arnaud, Warracknabeal, Swan Hill, Koorlong( Red Cliffs) ,Mildura, Echuca, all defunct except Mildura and possibly Koorlong. Swan hill has a new track about 15 years ago.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2009, 08:08:41 pm »
What about Waiaa at Shepparton,Olympic park,Dandenong Hammond Road,Maldon.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2009, 08:16:58 pm »
Quote from: Bahnsy on July 05, 2009, 05:36:22 pm
Apparaently the Nissan dealership in FernTree Gully sits on a track that existed back in the 50' - 60's.
Have heard about races being run there but exact loaction and pictures are near on impossible to come by.
Thats right .I lived in the area as a kid.My parents went to buy a car at Neil Nielson and the mxbikes were riding around next to the car yard.That was just practice.I suddenly lost interest in the cars but my parents wouldn't go over for a closer look.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2009, 08:24:07 pm »
Elaine
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Orbost
Mirboo (Note the track that classic use)
Mordialloc (Governor rd)
DevonMeadows
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2009, 08:46:35 pm »
westgate long gone
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« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2009, 09:21:06 pm »
East malvern mcc is having its 70th birthday this year and this topic came.One of the first tracks was waverley and warrigal rd chadston and also a track at jordenville.DREW
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2009, 09:38:42 pm »
Ididn't see Colac in the list.
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Re: VICTORIAN MX Tracks
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2009, 09:57:26 pm »
As a kid i remember riding my RM80 at Mordialloc (Governor rd) but i dont remember it as a "MX Track" rather a un-used block of land with a bunch of single track, tracks. At a guess it was around 78/79. Was there something else earlier?
Another track, but not a race track, was the riding park in Tynong near the Mill Valley Ranch. Cant remember the name.
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