Eastville Bulldog 9 Posted March 7, 2020 How many riders here would be interested in a training track in the Lancashire area. ? I'm trying to establish how much interest there would be, should the plan come to fruition. It's not worth pursuing if figures are negligible. The more support I can generate the better case I can put forward with the land owner. Ineed to show it's a viable proposal, able to generate an income. Please do not ask location as its early days yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PotteringAround 633 Posted March 7, 2020 5 hours ago, Eastville Bulldog said: How many riders here would be interested in a training track in the Lancashire area. ? I'm trying to establish how much interest there would be, should the plan come to fruition. It's not worth pursuing if figures are negligible. The more support I can generate the better case I can put forward with the land owner. Ineed to show it's a viable proposal, able to generate an income. Please do not ask location as its early days yet. Belle Vue National Stadium run the No Limits training days, but I've always thought the NSS track is too big to learn on. You need to learn to turn a bike somewhere very tight like Buxton, Scunny training track, or the old Sheffield training track. A training track in South Lancashire close to Manchester might prove complementary to the NSS 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eastville Bulldog 9 Posted March 7, 2020 The site is close to Manchester, with very easy motorway access. If enough people can give me a 'thumbs up' that would be great. It wouldn't be good having a handful of riders turning up each weekend ! I need to show it can work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamesHarris 390 Posted March 8, 2020 Sounds good if you have a landowner willing to provide the land. Only snag is though you already have Buxton. And it may not go down to well with Belle Vue. Good luck though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PotteringAround 633 Posted March 8, 2020 1 hour ago, JamesHarris said: Only snag is though you already have Buxton. What's Buxton got to do with it? Buxton is in the East Midlands, not a million miles from Stoke (And why we haven't got the Stoke and Buxton promotions working together running a combined team from Buxton, I don't know. But that's a different story). He's talking about a training track for Lancashire. (Lancashire runs from the Lake District down to the north of Manchester). As for not going down well with Belle Vue, I think they'd welcome a facility to train up North West kids, as they seem to be the one Premier League side interested in youngsters. If I were thinking of a training track in Lancs, The first thing I'd do is contact Belle Vue to get their input and help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*JJ 512 Posted March 9, 2020 There was always plenty of riders paying £40 to practice at Scunthorpe and other tracks: somewhere in the north west should do just as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamesHarris 390 Posted March 9, 2020 23 hours ago, PotteringAround said: What's Buxton got to do with it? Buxton is in the East Midlands, not a million miles from Stoke (And why we haven't got the Stoke and Buxton promotions working together running a combined team from Buxton, I don't know. But that's a different story). He's talking about a training track for Lancashire. (Lancashire runs from the Lake District down to the north of Manchester). As for not going down well with Belle Vue, I think they'd welcome a facility to train up North West kids, as they seem to be the one Premier League side interested in youngsters. If I were thinking of a training track in Lancs, The first thing I'd do is contact Belle Vue to get their input and help. Cricky old lad, wind your neck back in. (Lancashire runs from the Lake District down to the north of Manchester) - Really!! I thought it was near Southampton?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PotteringAround 633 Posted March 9, 2020 2 hours ago, JamesHarris said: Really!! I thought it was near Southampton?? No. You thought it was near Buxton. So "wind your neck back in" (Whatever that's supposed to mean). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamesHarris 390 Posted March 10, 2020 20 hours ago, PotteringAround said: No. You thought it was near Buxton. So "wind your neck back in" (Whatever that's supposed to mean). Oooohhhhh!! Somebody needs a poo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray Stadia 1,071 Posted March 11, 2020 15 hours ago, JamesHarris said: Oooohhhhh!! Somebody needs a poo Is that what 'wind your neck back in' means? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PotteringAround 633 Posted March 11, 2020 7 hours ago, Ray Stadia said: Is that what 'wind your neck back in' means? Maybe he means he missed out on the great toilet roll hoarding craze? Perhaps that's why he's having to "wind it back in". 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gunner85 603 Posted March 19, 2020 Ainsdale sands had a long period of Speedway activity... training up a lot of riders Share this post Link to post Share on other sites