heywood-86

[power]

it hasnt changed much

[Mattdub]

cool sketch 

[kusam]

Cool.  Nabbed that pic thanks.  My home track.

You're right...hasn't changed much.  One thing I noticed though.....I have some old footage of Heywood and it shows after the first berm it wasn't straight but turned in and back out again.  I never remembered this....always thought of it as the pic shown above.

The pic above hs missed out Steven Davidsons dad stood on scaffolding doing the commentating with lead connected to car for power....Rusty Taylor in his wooly hat wandering round the middle of the track and Jack Hibbert jumping about at the fnish line as daughter Jane won yet again.

 

[sanderson]

pete were did you find that.
got some pics aboout 86 nbmx regional
little kids not to sure who they are.any ideas? iff you can make them out,scanners a bit s**t


me and roberts battling it out again

[kusam]

sanderson.....Good stuff...got any more??

[sanderson]

sorry mate thats it.
is the track still rideable, its shame no one can
get a club up and running.
i think the last meeting had to be called off.
not sure why.

[kusam]

The track is still rideable.....go down there every now and then as it's only 10-15 minutes away.

Got these stills from some old footage so very fuzzy..not sure what year...but going off the RVR race shirts, they're the older ones so reckon this is 84.  As you can....it's a bit different from that drawing above...the back straight has a bend in it as you can see in the 1st pic which shows the riders coming out of the 1st berm.  The second pic shows only a speed jump as alternative route to the step up.

[power]

Got that pic from freestyle bmx, 
Karl you got any pictures of the kirkby track.

[sanderson]

sorry mate i havn't

always rode poor there

[power]

its ok ive got loads from kirkby-
ukbmx reg 1985 i think, me 1st, roberts 2nd i think your in 6th there must of had a bad day.Kirkby was a cool track the start hill was on the side of an old ski-slope,, designed and built by alan woods.

[sanderson]

cool pete,looks like im trying to take someone out.
ill blame alan next time i see him,for the design
i remember the dodgy pro section,over the berm and back out again.
or was that somewere else.
keep posting

[HEYWOOD BMX]

 :)Cool.I didn`t move to Heywood until early 90`s,so good to see this lot.Does anyone have  close up of the old RVR raceshirts,as I would like to repro a few?



             James

[kusam]

Still got mine.

You mean the first ones they had?  Like this -






They were a tea bag material, and as you can tell the red print wore off...it had Roch Valley Raiders down the sleeves and a band of yellow.  I will get the top out for better pics when I have more time.