Author Topic: three sisters (Read 4850 times)

58 delray · « **on:** February 22, 2010, 12:25 PM »

me and some other oldies were talking about old tracks a couple of weeks ago, anyway i just found this in the loft

telelogic · « **Reply #1 on:** February 22, 2010, 12:28 PM »

that looks like a track even I could cope with

Jt · « **Reply #2 on:** February 22, 2010, 12:29 PM »

Quote from: telelogic on February 22, 2010, 12:28 PM

that looks like a track even I could cope with

you cant really make out the hard bit...

kong...

i shit myself and went the easy route....

58 delray · « **Reply #3 on:** February 22, 2010, 12:33 PM »

Quote from: J.T on February 22, 2010, 12:29 PM

Quote from: telelogic on February 22, 2010, 12:28 PM
that looks like a track even I could cope with

you cant really make out the hard bit...

kong...

i shit myself and went the easy route....

first time i saw Kong it was "wtf is that"
will see if i can clean up the pic

58 delray · « **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2010, 12:43 PM »

any better?

James Nada · « **Reply #5 on:** February 22, 2010, 12:49 PM »

Great scan.

There are less jumps on that track than you get on some straights nowadays.

snav69 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 22, 2010, 01:04 PM »

I live just down the road from there and took these pics a few years back of how it is today

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=30799.0

58 delray · « **Reply #7 on:** February 22, 2010, 01:24 PM »

Quote from: James Nada on February 22, 2010, 12:49 PM

Great scan.

There are less jumps on that track than you get on some straights nowadays.

pinched this from snav69's link, it show kong better. there may be less jumps but kong was a table top the size of a start hill with a set of doubles on top !!!!! (8&9)

or the softies could take the easy route to the sides

LucyLastic · « **Reply #8 on:** February 22, 2010, 02:06 PM »

When I raced at Three Sisters in the very early days, the track didn't have the split in it at Kong, it just had Kong if I remember rightly. I have an old video of racing there, must dig it out...

Did anyone race at Chorley here, the track on John Lee's family quarry? Would love to see that location from Google Earth now, I bet it's completely gone, as in, dug away with the rest of the quarry.

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2010, 03:58 PM »

same here, there was no soft option.....hit it hard or it did the same to you, end of. those were the days. vivid memories of having trouble with clearing kong all day, making the final (no A or B finals) then looping out on the doubles in the 2nd straight while in the lead

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2010, 04:01 PM »

hi Lucy. yeah i raced chorley while on Raleigh, as John Lees understudy. i'm wondering if there's a pair of Lees sealed bearing hubs or bottom brackets kicking around somewhere

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2010, 04:03 PM »

no work today andy?

58 delray · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2010, 04:06 PM »

rained off mate and as we were talking about Kong the other week thought i would put this up

LucyLastic · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2010, 10:04 PM »

'Ere ya go, a clip of Three Sisters in the early days, about 81ish I think. Blimey it was that flat in places, I could sit down and pedal.

I was about 11 or 12 on this vid. It's mostly of my brother, Dave Westwell.

priv · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2010, 05:56 AM »

love watching owt like this

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2010, 08:38 AM »

Quote from: 58delray on February 22, 2010, 04:06 PM

rained off mate and as we were talking about Kong the other week thought i would put this up

Not raining today son....stop bunking off & drag your ass to work

pandyr · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2010, 09:13 AM »

hi Louise, you must have a load of old footage that your dad did. I loved watching them on the living room wall, good old days
Andy

LucyLastic · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2010, 12:14 PM »

hiya Andy (Is this Andy Parr by any chance?)

I do have quite a bit of footage actually

I really must get it uploaded. We had it transferred to DVD from cine, they didn't do a very good job so would like it done again if possible.

Btw, Godfrey (who Alan Woods shouts "Go, Godfrey, go" in the vid) is Godfrey Burke and I believe he races 40+ cruiser for Preston Pirates nowadays.

pandyr · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2010, 05:11 PM »

Hi louise, yeh it is andy parr, Godfrey doesnt race much but he does gate practice at preston and coppull, i started racing again at the start of 2007 but I keep breaking bones,

, might be racing manchester40+ this weekend I'll see how i feel $:-\$ . Not seen David for a while its about time he got a bike

LucyLastic · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2010, 05:17 PM »

Andy, will PM you, hold on...

ron burgundy · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:31 PM »

That's a great bit of footage, thanks for posting

Bettyswallocks · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2010, 06:49 PM »

Is it just me or does that track look quite tame by todays standards?

Love the old footage...

Bigplinky · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2010, 07:13 PM »

Tracks were more about pedalling than jumping then.

All I remember about Kong is you had to pedal right up to the lip to have a hope of clearing it and then when you did jump you sort of stalled in the air above the landing and just thumped down. Good track to race on though

Cool pre Kong vid Lucy

58 delray · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2010, 07:39 PM »

i had 185 mm flight cranks and a gearing of 45/16 at three sisters because it was such a long track where, as you say you did a lot more pedalling.
remember going there for one race and coming back to London with only bits of a bike as Debbie Scott-Webb was inbetween sponsors and she sweet talked me into loaning her my ripper, took me months to get it back, luckerly i had another bike at the time LOL

James Nada · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2010, 07:53 PM »

That's lovely footage - 8mm film gives that such a nice feel.

Thanks Lucy

Author Topic: three sisters (Read 4850 times)

telelogic

snav69

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere

kevin (A.K.A) kai riviere

pandyr

pandyr

Bettyswallocks