Track Cycling: Velodrome Racing and Training Area - Mystery Velodrome in the middle of the Arizona desert...

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Maddox
04-07-10, 10:41 AM
Hi, I don't usually venture over to the Track forums, usually spending most of my time on C&V or SS/FG, but I stumbled upon something I thought Track might be able to enjoy:

I'm from Phoenix, and I always thought there wasn't a local velodrome but you had to drive to San Diego to get on a track.

Then I randomly did an internet search that yeilded this...keep zooming in for a random surprise. (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115460496716285994133.000483a7aa8438d0b1f77&ll=33.339133,-112.088699&spn=0.185861,0.363579&t=h&z=12)

So I guess I have two questions:

Anyone from Phoenix/Tempe area heard of this track or visited it before?
Has anyone ever seen such a random velodrome?

artimus
04-07-10, 11:16 AM
Go cart track. Look at the 'parking spaces' on the infield, and the run in to the track at the top left. Cool find none the least.
mattchambers
05-08-10, 12:14 AM
You won't have any fun riding your bike on that RC track.

LesterOfPuppets
05-08-10, 12:29 AM
You could host concrete versions of bicycle speedway racing there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABzapiN1j7Q
tallmantim
05-18-10, 07:49 PM
LOL

Having a look on Google earth, the whole track is about 90m long!
artimus
05-24-10, 10:45 AM
You won't have any fun riding your bike on that RC track.

It's to big for an RC track.
Dalai
05-24-10, 06:15 PM
A couple of minutes googling - http://www.vsqma.com/index.html

It's a Quarter midget race track.