Originally Posted by
digitaldisco
My neighbor's ultra-cheap, now discontinued, Vilano fixed gear came with quick release wheels. But I don't know if you'd call that a real track bike exactly.
How many have ever rode a velodrome track ? I ask because I'm after a Vilano and it seems like decent enough urban bike that will ride a velodrome, provided the velodrome even exists. I read online there are 3 in the SE USA, velodromes that is. I'm 15 miles away from one, so if I ride over with a couple of wrenches, maybe I can pay the man for the time/laps on the velodrome track, turn the bike upside down and flip flop the rear wheel and turn a few laps ? When I'm done, I can return it to the freewheel and ride back home the 15 miles ? That's Saturday AM and Ican make it back home in time to eat lunch and watch the Fox baseball game of the week if I don't take a nap in the middle of it ?
http://www.broward.org/Parks/ThingsT...velodrome.aspx
The Velodrome at Brian Piccolo Park in Cooper City is the only velodrome in Florida and one of only three in the southeastern U.S. (the other two are in East Point, Georgia, and Asheville, North Carolina). It opened in March 1992 and on April 17, 1993, hosted its first major race. It attracts more than 3,500 athletes annually.