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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: Jazzchimp on February 19, 2006, 07:41 PM
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Used to like redditch cos of the bomb hole, but as it was my local track I have to go for Wordsley :4_17_5:
Does anyone remember Derby?? been racking my brains but I can't remember anything about it... think they call it Alzheimers
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mine was poole track (poole panthers) a close second was southampton my local track.
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I liked Swindon as I didn't lose there for 2 years.
Favourite though was Hounslow.
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Whickham Thorns (Gateshead, 1st series of Kelloggs) loved the big first doubles
and Teeside Airport - joint 1st!
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mine was poole track (poole panthers) a close second was southampton my local track.
is that poole dorset?!?!?!?
i live there now and didn't know that there was a track here!!!
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Raced the big Kelloggs brum track (Shenley Fields) the one with 6 start gates.. that was fantastic. I remember it was baking hot and very fast
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the Grimsby YMCA track was the best track from bitd.
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Southbank nr. Middlesbrough... fantastic track. Teesside Airport and Guisbrough had a great atmosphere, but Hartlepool was my fave track, loved it!!!
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Buckmore, well i would say that. ;D
I also liked Hounslow and Three sisters (wigan).
Another good track in the south east i liked was Harvington Bowl.
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Always liked Tamworth,nothing exciting about it but had my first National win there before going expert,also liked Slough....after the worlds that track just had such an presense about it!!!!
Poole......downhill if I remember correctly.
Derby?? There the one at the greyhound stadium ie British Champs and another one at Alvaston!!!
Stu
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Coxmoor, Wheels Euros and Wordesley, all down hill, the best. :) :)
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Wheels, Wordsley, Malvern Rebel Force, Cocksmoor, Chelmsley Wood, Hereford, Leamington Spa, Birmingham Kellogs, Hounslow, Cheltenham, Tamworth, Morecambe 1983, Warndon in Worcester. Er, and Ludlow.
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Cheltenham
I remember Cheltenham so well, the team I was riding for at the time had an invite to the opening meeting of the track. I remember it was pooring with rain, and the track was waterlogged and really sticky. One of the longest tracks I raced on.
Won that day though so wasn't so bad.
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glockenspielsmoor :LolLolLolLol:
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Is there some kind of auto editing thing with this site? I had had a few by then, but I''m sure I typed Cxcksmoor. Christ I don't think I can even spell glockenspiel! Good thing there wasn't a track in Smuggy c**thorpe, or was there?
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Snoo-noohorpe. hahaha
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mine was poole track (poole panthers) a close second was southampton my local track.
is that poole dorset?!?!?!?
i live there now and didn't know that there was a track here!!!
sure was, the address was alderney poole behind kemp welsh school take herbert avenue turnoff from a348 well worth a look may still be there ,let us know if its still there cheers phil
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Always liked Tamworth,nothing exciting about it but had my first National win there before going expert,also liked Slough....after the worlds that track just had such an presense about it!!!!
Poole......downhill if I remember correctly.
Derby?? There the one at the greyhound stadium ie British Champs and another one at Alvaston!!!
Stu
you are right zippy poole was down hill, on the first straight had the dolly partons-legendary speed humps!!!!!!!!!! they claimed more victims than harold shipman ;D
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Three sisters wigan....coming back soon. :LolLolLolLol:
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Poole was my fave too, very fast and lots of nice jumps, triples at the bottom,
apartantley its now a nature reserve, so cant be touched, has some rare bird living on it or something
high wycome was fast too on a hill again, farnham has some good jumps
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Powder Monkey (Newcastle) was just about right first three straights were flat to downhillish then the second from last straight was mad downhill with a massive set of doubles and into a huge berm to the finish
2nd fav's Middlesbourgh Southbank (the original 83 track) and Hartlepool Church street for the first tabletop and doubles.
Andy
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1,Three sisters
2,birmingham wheels
3,bourmouth
4,ipswich long drive for my dad done in one day :4_17_5:back to wigan
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Hersden. ;D ;D ;D
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poole was my favourite, with runnymede 2nd and hounslow 3rd.
burgess hill bombers was the longest track i ever rode bitd.
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WOULD HAVE TO BE BUCKMORE WHEN IT HAD THE WATER JUMP (GRAND NATIONAL STYLE CHAPS) THE OLD HAYES TRACK AND SHOREHAM NR BRIGHTON
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Rom, it had a cracking skatepark right next to the track :daumenhoch:
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1. Buckmoor
2. Hounslow
3. Birmingham Wheels
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For me its gotta be:
Chelmsley Wood
Coxmoor
Bromsgrove
and of course... Birmingham Wheels :P
Funny how our favourite tracks always seem to be those closest to us. (well they were in my case!!)
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Leamington, my home track. 1st one tho. They ruined it about 6 years after it opened by changing it and taking out the huge hill drop.
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Southbank nr. Middlesbrough... fantastic track. Teesside Airport and Guisbrough had a great atmosphere, but Hartlepool was my fave track, loved it!!!
second Southbank and Hartlepool (very fast track cool first n second straights with big airs to be gained on table top n whoops) not keen on teesside though (didnt like the horseshoe whoops, too small)
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mine was poole track (poole panthers) a close second was southampton my local track.
is that poole dorset?!?!?!?
i live there now and didn't know that there was a track here!!!
sure was, the address was alderney poole behind kemp welsh school take herbert avenue turnoff from a348 well worth a look may still be there ,let us know if its still there cheers phil
NO WAY DUDE!!!!!!
I LIVE ABOUT 1 MINS DRIVE FROM THERE
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have you been for a look yet ash? if not best way to find it is when you come to the dead end off main road the track was to your left built on the side of a slope :daumenhoch:
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Powder Monkey (Newcastle) was just about right first three straights...
I never saw you ride there Plinky - I thought you'd packed in before that was built...
It still looks like it's there - pic from Google Earth:
(http://www.sportingbet.com/images/powder_monkey.jpg)
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C.o.c.k.smoor (that's how it is spelt!!), Penrith (track in BMX Bandits) Australia, and Malvern Rebel Force.
Nuff said.
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Wheels (euro) track
Chelmsley Wood
Perry Barr
Norton Canes
Wordsley
Redditch
Leicester (from memory)
Bournmouth (4th in National)
the list could go on and on, can ya tell i rode in the midlands????
Nick Baines :4_17_5:
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The Eastway track in Hackney used to be the place I raced at as a kid bitd, we had a team called the Brown's Jets (Brown's garage in Loughton Essex, used to supply us with a few bits and pieces and helped sponsor us) and was also where a certain Neil Ruffell used to ride if I remember correctly.
Did anyone on here ever venture round the berms at Eastway, I'd say about 1982 ish??
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Does anyone remember Derby?? been racking my brains but I can't remember anything about it... think they call it Alzheimers
Yes, it was in the old greyhound stadium, now gone and replaced by luxury apartments. Quite a long flat track, not very exciting. And also the one at alvaston, crap in 83, still crap now.
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I hated Derby Greyhound stadium track with a passion, you would race regionals all year on varying tracks that got more and more technical as the years went by, and come NBMXA championship you were faced with a flat boring track that only suited bigger, powerful and (in my opinion) less technial riders. Never gave the smaller, technical (read more stylish) riders a chance.
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Mr Stiddard you are wrong my friend. I was the original 8 stone skinny kid
who always did good at Derby on 42-16 3rd behind Geth in 84, was a bit
tame though untill they built the 1st doubles up.
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There is always an exception Kev, I could reach the final, but in my age group Derby was so much better suited to people like Whopper Watkins etc who were 'power riders'.
I think that better tracks could have been used for the NBMXA Championship.
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The Eastway track in Hackney used to be the place I raced at as a kid bitd, we had a team called the Brown's Jets (Brown's garage in Loughton Essex, used to supply us with a few bits and pieces and helped sponsor us) and was also where a certain Neil Ruffell used to ride if I remember correctly.
Did anyone on here ever venture round the berms at Eastway, I'd say about 1982 ish??
Yep, I raced there a couple of times around that time :daumenhoch:
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Did anyone on here ever venture round the berms at Eastway, I'd say about 1982 ish??
yeah but only for fun 81/82 ish,, me and my mates where more into Freestyle we used to go to spaniards at hampstead very early trails riding I suppose, also jess drynthforth had a bit of waste land next to his house we bulit a small track on it, and put up a quarter pipe used to spend loads of time there,although we used to have to rebuild the quarter pipe all the time!! cause there was some skinheads nearby who used to like to wreck it for us :(
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would have to be Redditch as it was my local track, and also the only track where i ever won any races.
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I raced Derby once. I thought it was quite a good track. I always preffered Hillbillies track in Malvern though.
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Any of you ever remember racing inside in what seemed like a massive barn? wooden jumps and most of the track was just earth'may have been down south somewhere? I guess it was in a farmers place ???
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Out of the Derby tracks I thought Alveston was much better. The Derby Greyhound stadium track was very bumpy, lumpy, soft and a bit flat and jumpless even by old school standards I seem to remember. I never did anygood at any of the Greayhound standium Brits, but it was a top venue with a awesome atmosphere.
A couple of Brits pics of the two Derby tracks.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v703/flying_fox/alveston_ebmxa_brits.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v703/flying_fox/outside.jpg)
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I seem to remember Derby greyhound track had a practice table top jump in the corner somewhere? am i right?
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That rings a bell somewhere in the mist of my brain. I think it did, or was it just a pile of unused surface we all thought was a jump?
Any one remember when that kid fell through the roof of that shed by the big score board thingy must have been 85 or 86? Classic. :LolLolLolLol:
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Yeah, I remember that, can't remember where it was exactly. It was not too far away from me (Bristol) though.
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Yep, I raced there a couple of times around that time :daumenhoch:
I broke my leg there in 1982, not a racing injury mind, think my old pro star just fell over onto it.
:LolLolLolLol:
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yeh remember that daz it was in wolverhamton the horse training place remember nose diving my silver fox there into some sort of jump complete mess
new hutch LOL :daumenhoch:
jamie
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Daz ,
I remember an indoor like that where all the jumps were wooden & the surface was really soft. I think it was Gosport way ? , deffo South though.
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must have been a couple then but the one i remember was in wolverhampton anyone else remember that one
jamie
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The Wolves track was Hilton Park. Raced there a few times, freezing cold , had to carry your bike up the steps to the start!
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Daz ,
I remember an indoor like that where all the jumps were wooden & the surface was really soft. I think it was Gosport way ? , deffo South though.
sound a bit like the temporary track they built at an equestrian centre near ryde on the isle of white in the mid 80s :-\
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have you been for a look yet ash? if not best way to find it is when you come to the dead end off main road the track was to your left built on the side of a slope :daumenhoch:
no not had time yet but will go over with my camera this weekend :daumenhoch:
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Hilton Park services, M6. Midlands winter series in a horse arena on wooden jumps and loose manure/wood chip surface. I remember racing there loads, sneaking a crafty half a lager from a couple of the 17+ lads in the bar, getting frost bite in my toes waiting in the snow to get up the ramp, pinching alloy dust caps off the Stetchford cycles van,winter racing at its best.
Also suprised how many people mentioned my home track Chelmsley. Considering how much time we spent there I never really rated it that much. I also forgot how much fun Leamington track was when it first opened, big down hill first turn.
J.