Mike Murray

I have to disagree. I get contacted by lots of groups from around the world
that want to build a velodrome. Many of them get land and money together
and could actually have put up a velodrome but they start to think too big
and then they never complete the deal. The US needs many more cheap but
usable velodromes to grow the sport. We do not need another velodrome that
meets world level competition standards but which is underutilized, costs a
lot of money to run and still loses money. For the cost of one ADT center
there could have been 10 more usable facilities built. The amount of money
that USAC pays to use ADT each year could instead build a new velodrome each
year.

Mike Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of joe cipale
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:06 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Cc: Jeff Standish
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Velodrome

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.

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.
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