| Subject: | RE: Indoor Velodrome?? |
| Date: | 01/29/2006 05:35 PM |
| From: | AK 47 |
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im new portland and had a chance to ride the velodrome for a few laps in the fall. personally, im just happy to be close to a velodrome at all, let alone as exciting a velodrome as alpenrose. im looking forward to racing this year, and not having to find someone to drive me 4 hours each way to t-town to do it. From: Doug Hormann <djhor-@verizon.net> Reply-To: djhor-@verizon.net To: ob-@topica.com Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Indoor Velodrome?? Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:23:33 -0800 My pessimistic side is showing, I know, but am I the only one who thinks that a covered velodrome would likely result a greatly increased cost to ride on it? Having a board track that could be set up in Memorial Colliseum sounds great, but it wouldn't be available for training or without a hefty fee to ride. Also, board tracks are notoriously maintenance intensive. Having watched the carpenter come out and repair the track every time someone crashed at last year's world's in LA was an eye opener. My understanding is that the Carson track in LA is also very expensive for clubs, or individuals to ride. Doug Hormann -----Original Message----- From: J Bravard [mailto:jb24-@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:07 PM To: ob-@topica.com Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Indoor Velodrome?? Another idea that might appeal to Nike is to design an indoor racing track inside the velodrome. 250 meters is the distance of many top notch indoor velodromes. 200 meters is the standard for indoor running tracks, and perhaps it could be designed so that the running track fit inside the velodrome - i.e. an efficient footprint. Proposing both of these at the same location might heighten the appeal to a company that is still more of a running company than a cycling company. (Although I must admit that their new cycling shoes are great.) Just my 2 cent - John Bravard Luciano bailey <ride-@hotmail.com> wrote: The state of the Art is late the ADT Center will be hard to out do .I still believe the answer is the Memorial Coliseum any Nike Execs out there or title people of any sort please step up. >From: Duncan Calver >Reply-To: duncan-@msn.com >To: patrickin-@yahoo.com, ob-@topica.com >Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Indoor Velodrome?? >Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:25:16 -0800 > >A cover for Alpenrose would be cool, but...we should be able to go bigger >than that: > > >Now, I'm not a trackie, but this issue has been on my brain for a while... > >I've been wondering why a big company like Nike (for instance) hasn't >stepped up to build a new state of the art indoor velodrome in an old >warehouse or something DOWNTOWN/Portland proper. Portland is the biggest >cycling town in the US, has a huge contingent of track racers, and our >sport obviously needs to grow and build viewership/coverage. Alpenrose is >great, but hardly anybody who doesn't race knows about it, and that's why >the attendance for spectators is so low (also, they don't allow alcohol on >the premises - generally a big minus for spectators). A new indoor >velodrome w/liquor license/band venue would be an insanely cool addition to >Portland culture. They've got lots of these in Europe...any thoughts? > >D > >>From: patrick wilder >>Reply-To: patrickin-@yahoo.com >>To: obra >>Subject: [OBRA Chat] Indoor Velodrome?? >>Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:33:46 -0800 (PST) >> >> I'm sure this topic has come up before but I'm wondering what the >>logistics of having an Indoor track would be. Seems like with all this >>rain we'd get tons of people riding in the winter. >> >> Could some sort of cover be built over the current track? Sort of like >>those big structures you see on HW 30 by the train yards. >> >> Granted this is coming from a guy who has NEVER rode the current track. >> I think I'd be more inclined when the weather gets bad. >> >> Ideas, feedback??? >> >> >> >>~Patrick >>------------- __o >>---------- _ '\<,, >>----------(_)/ (_)____________________________ >> >>--------------------------------- >> >> What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos > >To respond to the whole group send to ob-@topica.com. >To respond to the list manager send to cmur-@obra.org >To unsubscribe send to obra-uns-@topica.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ Don�t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38382/_ylc=X3oDMTEzNWFva2Y2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2 BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDMmF1dG9z/*http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/popular/thi sweek.html%20">Yahoo! Autos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos To respond to the whole group send to ob-@topica.com. To respond to the list manager send to cmur-@obra.org To unsubscribe send to obra-uns-@topica.com |
