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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: b45t4rd on February 24, 2008, 05:18 PM
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Anyone else search google earth looking where old tracks were/are?
Pics of whats left of my local tracks
Sennelleys Park
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u206/b45t4rdtorker/spbmx.jpg)
Perry Park
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u206/b45t4rdtorker/ppbmx.jpg)
C0cksmoors Woods :smitten:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u206/b45t4rdtorker/c0cksmoor.jpg)
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South Woodham Ferrers - Looks a bit better now we have been working on it for the last 3 months. The concrete start hill is still visable....
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj107/thecrooch/SWF.jpg)
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a253/the1carper/DronfieldTrack.jpg)
Dronfield BMX Track...........R.I.P :'(
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had a walk round Sennelleys Park back in the summer could not make the track out.looks better in pictures i go passd chemleys wood track a lot il try and get some pictures
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Here's the Chelmsley Eagles track but can't make it out from what I remember, such a shame, had some good laughs with mates down there. It's too the right of Chester Road, built on a hill, I remember it having a long steep start gate. Must pop down there sometime and get some proper pics
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s6/aerostylie/Chelmsleyeagles.jpg)
Paul
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It,s a bit sad looking at the ruins of old tracks, but does bring back good memories, I remember the first time at C0cksmoors :shocked: Then going to Perry Park and "thinking this is hard work" C0cksmoor being a downhiller i'd been pampered, less pedalling :LolLolLolLol:
Any more pics old or new?
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Here you go;
Hayes/Hillingdon/Kingshill Avenue - Dont think it’s this good now.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2297116540_328f378292.jpg)
Hayes - Dawley Road Current
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2297116312_6e6f3e0ba9.jpg)
Slough
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2296320117_d600aba7b5.jpg)
Hounslow - or where it was at least :(
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2297115790_ac6574a8fb.jpg)
High Wycombe
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2297115614_c351425bc6.jpg)
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Sheffield Track
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a253/the1carper/SheffieldTrack.jpg)
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Cannot find or see Chesterfield track !!!!!!!!!! ??????????? :-\
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God this is so sad - cant believe so many fell by the wayside.
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Does anyone remember the old track at Marsh Lane (in between Dronfield and Eckington) I'm going back 25 years or so now.....
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Aerostylie/Paul
Nothing left of the Chelmsley track mate, still live local and drive past most days. Gutted that stopped riding 1988-1998 and track was levelled in 1997. When I started racing again in '98 had to travel to Chesterfield to race Dingo, gutted. My old man with a few other dedicated parents started the eagles and got the track off the ground. Lived down there 24/7 for 3 years solid. Many happy times down there both on and off our bikes. Still cant believe the frekin skateboard run opposite outlasted the track.
Jas.
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Aerostylie/Paul
Nothing left of the Chelmsley track mate, still live local and drive past most days. Gutted that stopped riding 1988-1998 and track was levelled in 1997. When I started racing again in '98 had to travel to Chesterfield to race Dingo, gutted. My old man with a few other dedicated parents started the eagles and got the track off the ground. Lived down there 24/7 for 3 years solid. Many happy times down there both on and off our bikes. Still cant believe the frekin skateboard run opposite outlasted the track.
Jas.
Jas, can't believe they flatened it :-\ no wonder I couldn't see it on Google Earth!! and yeah I remember the concrete skate area. I lived by Chelmsley swimming pool and used to ride around with Paul and John Goldengay (yeah thay was their surname), go to Stetchford Cycles and H Craig along Bordesley.
I've tried to search for track/Eagle pics on the net but nothing...would love to see some pics, the table top seemed massive. If memory serves me right the Eagles colours were Red/Black/White? The only bad memory I had was some k n o b nicking my goggles off me lid!!
Real cool to hear that you were involved with the Eagles from the start :4_17_5:
Paul ;)
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this is all thats left of cantley park in doncaster :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a158/dwaindibbly/cantley.jpg)
and this is hexthorpe doncaster :-[ :-[
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a158/dwaindibbly/hexthorpe.jpg)
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How do you get the pic off of google earth ? :-\ paul
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Paul
I will try and get my old man to dig out some old photos of the track, I know he has some. I know about eight Goldengays, all of them work at Land Rover including a John who is about my age(38), maybe your mucca? Lived up by St Patricks school/Yeoman pub and went to Grimshaw. Would say small world mate but considering there were about 20 million kids on BMX bikes in the mid eighties then may be not such a suprise.
Jas.
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How do you get the pic off of google earth ? :-\ paul
I clicked on the envelope button and emailed the image to myself.
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How do you get the pic off of google earth ? :-\ paul
I clicked on the envelope button and emailed the image to myself.
:daumenhoch: ill give that a try, cheers mate,,
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This is Poole track.
Dont seem to be able to do it as an image. Still at least you can play with the zoom thing and also change the views of it.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sfqgc9gv59dc&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7652332&encType=1
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thanks for that andy, ive been trying to get the image off of google earth, but no joy ??? i still ride on the old poole track :daumenhoch:
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thanks for that andy, ive been trying to get the image off of google earth, but no joy ??? i still ride on the old poole track :daumenhoch:
Me on my GJS in my avatar mate going over the poole start straight doubles mate, what used to be the dollies.
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thanks for that andy, ive been trying to get the image off of google earth, but no joy ??? i still ride on the old poole track :daumenhoch:
Me on my GJS in my avatar mate going over the poole start straight doubles mate, what used to be the dollies.
:daumenhoch: its real messed up now, one of the burms is soft sand, and you have to fight of the chavs :LolLolLolLol:
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Paul
I will try and get my old man to dig out some old photos of the track, I know he has some. I know about eight Goldengays, all of them work at Land Rover including a John who is about my age(38), maybe your mucca? Lived up by St Patricks school/Yeoman pub and went to Grimshaw. Would say small world mate but considering there were about 20 million kids on BMX bikes in the mid eighties then may be not such a suprise.
Jas.
PM sent Jas :daumenhoch:
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/cc161/eloopnai/eastway.jpg)
eastway temple mills lane stratford east london
been gone now think about 2 years but olympic track being built in its place
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These pics must be at least three years out of date,the Volvo's long gone.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y152/fuzzywig/GoogleEarth_Image2.jpg)
Sidley (old home of Bexhill burners and site of many a backyard comp.)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y152/fuzzywig/GoogleEarth_Image.jpg)
My back garden (sort of, my parents place)
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Ahh the Eastway Cycle circuit - possibly the hardest Hours worth of riding you can do on a wednesday night in the summer - named Beastway for obvious reasons - shortish laps of around 3 miles each and the idea was to complete as many as possible in the hour or until the pro elite went through (they normally caught you on the first lap after starting last) normally 5 was about possible... makes a 45 second sprint on a BMX track seem like falling off a kerb... happy days...
now watch me puke in 3 weeks time at my first BMX race in 20 years!
Crooch