Author Topic: Local track from BITD - NOW (pics) (Read 4082 times)

nhoj · « **on:** January 23, 2009, 09:20 PM »

Ever since I started on this site I have been meaning to visit the track where I grew up in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.

Finally got there today and took these phone pics

Riders ready, pedals ready

View from start gate

It was a bit of a sad day really. My memories of the track where school summer holidays in the sun. All young kids having a laugh everyday.

Was like visiting a ghost track today in the cold and wind.

keep it lit! · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2009, 10:05 PM »

i remember wetherby

my local track was barton, other side of the canal opposite the trafford centre .......... long gone

ade

bof · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2009, 10:33 PM »

Her you go ade, Barton

keep it lit! · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2009, 11:03 PM »

coolio

who's the shrimp on the diamond back?

cheers bofski

rooski · « **Reply #4 on:** January 24, 2009, 03:06 PM »

visited my local track from bitd (greetland,halifax) and had the same feeling.
had a quick ride around what was left of it.
was quite emotional.

moley · « **Reply #5 on:** January 24, 2009, 03:36 PM »

I remember Barton!!

I only went a handful of times and it used to takes 3 hours to get there on a bike!!

There used to be a big mound of gravel at the entrance with some boards going up it so people could practice tricks up it!!

Bof!! what year were those piccys?

And have you got other piccys/videos of Barton?

lazyboy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 24, 2009, 08:26 PM »

I am up in Wetherby for work quite a lot,still looks worth a blast.
I will take my bike with me when the suns out

another excuse to do less work......love it

baldbmxer · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2009, 05:13 AM »

Wow the Wetherby track. I was one one of teh builders! haha. I too went back last summer and its in a sorry state.

But the hand prints and our names are still set in stone in the concrete coming into the second straight!

Nnoj - Do you remember Morgan?

nhoj · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2009, 07:58 PM »

Quote from: lazyboy on January 24, 2009, 08:26 PM

I am up in Wetherby for work quite a lot,still looks worth a blast.
I will take my bike with me when the suns out

another excuse to do less work......love it

If you need any directions give me a shout. I wouldn't go out of your way though. The track was built (by baldbmxer) next to the old railway lines and the track today is mostly an ash/burnt coal type of surface. And it would certainly need to dry out!!! Still, on second thoughts it could be worth a trip if its in works time!!

morgster · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2009, 09:17 PM »

WOW! Where did all that green stuff come from? Happy days - I dont think I have more than a couple of photos from the track (and one is just me and sky anyway), I bet my sister has more, I'll try and track them down.

The track was built by a few enthusiasts and the land was allocated after a lot of pressure on the local council, great that they gave us somewhere for a track, not so great that it was quite small and that it was more like a coal heap - lol. Lots of hard work from everyone involved and some help from local businesses meant we managed to make something of it. My dad was pretty instrumental in the whole process but I didnt get to help with building it as I had tonsilitis for two weeks when it was being built

baldbmxer · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2009, 09:24 PM »

Morgan.

Tonsilitus my arse! the word on the street was that you were playing Horace Goes Sking on you're ZX Spectrum!

morgster · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2009, 09:27 PM »

LOL.

It's true though, I almost whithered away - and missed the first week of the new school term! Seriously though I must have been pretty ill to not be up at the track moaning about how it was being built wrong.

morgster · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2009, 09:32 PM »

Here's the other one. I need to get through some old photos and get em scanned in.

nhoj · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2009, 09:35 PM »

I remember going round to your mum and dads house to get a club memership bitd.

I also remember your firebird freestyler in white and red with the cw bars. I can still remember to this day, you doing back hops on your pedals rather than pegs like most of us, infront of the bike sheds at wetherby high!!!!!!

What happened to your firebird, I aquired John Partingtons last year, pic in 'warning' thread posted tonight

morgster · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2009, 09:42 PM »

I wish my memory was as good, dont remember us having membership cards, but knowing what my dad was like I should know better, of course we would have had membership cards! Dad made a scale model of the track that was in the library window for months - I'm not sure if I haven't seen it in mums loft in the last few years.

I swapped my firebird with Paul Maddens GT, he immediately broke the forks on the firebird and I broke the head tube on the GT. I seem to remember the firebird getting a respray either green or blue (again - shit memory) which was done by David Poole.

I'm off to have a look at that pic right now.

morgster · « **Reply #15 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:27 PM »

I've been mad busy today scanning in and uploading photos from the track, these are all 1985.

morgster · « **Reply #16 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:33 PM »

ron burgundy · « **Reply #17 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:37 PM »

Great pics

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:42 PM »

cool pics, never see at jmc bitd, and never knew wetherby was a real place

morgster · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:56 PM »

aye it does exist, funny place though -

morgster · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2009, 07:57 PM »

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2009, 08:13 PM »

gotta luv a GT

morgster · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2009, 08:15 PM »

a closer look at that jmc

morgster · « **Reply #23 on:** January 31, 2009, 08:17 PM »

wish i still had me GT and all the gear too

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #24 on:** January 31, 2009, 08:22 PM »

i want a GT too

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