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Group Memberships => UND Cycling => Topic started by: Sal Atticum on August 10, 2010, 09:10:43 AM
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This is a sad article (http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/171440/):
The light goes green and there’s a big clank as the hydraulic gate drops, sending bikes and furiously pedaling kids down the track and past their parents relaxing in the stands this Thursday afternoon.
It was an idyllic scene that’s going to change real soon; the Red River BMX club is getting evicted to make room a for sewage treatment lagoons. It was only five years ago that the club was pushed out of the Grand Forks County fairgrounds.
“Seems like we’ve gotten the short end of the stick for a while,” said Kelley O’Hara, the volunteer track director, race announcer and dad.
It’s a shame, too, because the dads pretty much built this track with volunteer labor and built it thinking they’d stay a lot longer, he said. “When we got out here, we thought we had it made,” he said. “We buried our own power line; we buried our own water line. It was us dads.”
They had been leasing this land off N 36th Street (end of a dead-end road) from the city for $1 a year. Of all the things that could be going on for kids in this town, this BMX club should have been getting a whole lot more attention. I wish there was something we could to do help them out in the future.
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The easiest solution is to get a dirt track setup. Lots of BMX is turning to dirt track these days. I mean I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, I wish they just wanted/needed money.
Hmm...
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FYI almost all bmx racing is dirt track.... for those of you (super lameo's) who didn't ride BMX growing up (or while you were already grown up).
*(I never raced... only rode street, In the city we all thought racer's were stupid. I don't think that way any more, just thought I would mention it)
P.S. Street is way cooler that ramps or racing will ever be. Trails is pretty cool too.
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I meant most of the bikes are turning more to dirt style bikes on 26" wheels instead of the 20's
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Bump. Just tried contacting them again to see what was up.
EDIT: Also found this thread (http://www.vintagebmx.com/community/index.php?showtopic=27047028) with some interesting history.
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Good thing theyre keeping it a secret... ::)