Re: Indoor Velodrome??

jakebigham

2006-01-28





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I remember sitting at the side of the Alpenrose track thinking how

cool it would be to have a removable tensile structure (read: very

fancy "tent") over the whole business. problem is, lets just say the

structure cost $300k complete with lighting array - that cost would

beg the question of re-modeling the track itself to make it of

commensurate value. As it stands now I am not sure it is worth

covering, sorry alpenrose loyalists. All this doesn't even deal with

the issue that the track belongs to Alpenrose (what if they don't

want a great big tent?).

Still- it would be a very cool design project.

-Jake

On Jan 28, 2006, at 12:33 PM, patrick wilder wrote:



 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

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