Gregory Leblanc

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM, joe cipale wrote:
> I agree with Jeff here.
>
> If we are going to put in a velodrome, then lets make it a Metric drome. This
> can be done in place of the 200M drome. The world runs on the metric system.
> It is time the US joined the 21st century in this regard.

Uhm, maybe I'm missing something here, but last time I checked, 200
METERS was a METRIC distance. OTOH, I have no idea what is meant by a
"World Cup distance". I personally don't expect funding for this
thing to happen, but ANY indoor velodrome in Portland would almost
certainly have plenty of use and community support, assuming that fees
could be reasonable. McMenamins on site might generate some revenue,
and provide some entertainment while you're eating dinner, or enjoying
a tasty brew.
Greg

> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 18:54, Jeff Standish wrote:
>> If we can't be World Cup distance, don't do it.  Seems to me that we in
>> Portland only want things for free.  Why don't we dream big on occasion.
>> Seems to me that you get what you pay for.