New Race Circuit ...
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Topic: New Race Circuit ...
Posted By: Adrian Setter
Subject: New Race Circuit ...
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 5:45pm
... and it's in THE NORTH 
Many thanks to gNick for picking this one up
http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/sport-and-leisure-services/middlesbrough-cycle-circuit/;jsessionid=9282B9EA931C5856E91A482CF719610C - http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/sport-and-leisure-services/middlesbrough-cycle-circuit/;jsessionid=9282B9EA931C5856E91A482CF719610C
http://road.cc/content/news/30645-new-cycle-circuit-middlesbrough-takes-shape-ahead-next-months-opening - http://road.cc/content/news/30645-new-cycle-circuit-middlesbrough-takes-shape-ahead-next-months-opening
http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/sets/72157625844257756/with/5363335367/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/sets/72157625844257756/with/5363335367/
------------- Challenge Hurricane - MicWic Delta (Front half) - Burrows Ratracer |
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Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 04 February 2011 at 11:06pm
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Thanks Adrian/gNick. Can't see anything that shows the layout of the track, so difficult to tell what it might be like - anyone local?
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Posted By: KeithD
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 9:57am
Call that 'North'??? Pah!  I've found the track layout in the http://edrms.middlesbrough.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/03732990.pdf - planning application (yes, I know!). So it makes it look like this when going in a clockwise direction: Going out from the http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5363340387/in/set-72157625844257756/ - start/finish area , http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5363335367/in/set-72157625844257756/ - passing the shortcut on the corner , http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5366588169/in/set-72157625844257756/ - going down the hill* , http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5366584749/in/set-72157625844257756/ - looking back up the hill* to the start , http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5367203102/in/set-72157625844257756/ - looking back at the track coming up the hill* , http://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughcouncil/5363344529/in/set-72157625844257756/ - looking back along the home straight . Though a bunch of photos isn't the same as riding it. When someone gets a chance to ride it low down, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to hear about it. * Not really a hill - more a slight dip! Damn, there goes any chance of a win
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Posted By: AlanGoodman
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 10:11am
That looks good to me...  ------------- |
Posted By: gNick
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 2:45pm
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I would call it South as well, or actually I would say it was down in the land of the Smoggies!
------------- gNick "I'm afraid it's definite, Mrs Banker - your son has bicycles" |
Posted By: Adrian Setter
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 5:52pm
That link isn't working for me ------------- Challenge Hurricane - MicWic Delta (Front half) - Burrows Ratracer |
KeithD wrote:Posted By: gNick
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 6:28pm
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It's only about 20 miles from here so I'll go and have a look once it's open
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Posted By: KeithD
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 7:49pm
Sorry - the link appears to be to a temporary search result. I've downloaded the document (10MB PDF) - rather than upload that, here's a screen shot:  |
Posted By: graydog
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 8:26pm
| Lancaster with a different name then..... |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 8:44pm
It is a bit isn't it Graham, but with nice new tarmac  . For scale, how wide is a football pitch?...Googles...Apparently, there was no standard size til 2007, when it was set at 68x105 metres. The penalty box is 40.3m wide though. You learn something new every day...and forget it again the next day... ------------- Right Time - Right Place - Wrong Speed |
Posted By: martinbguk
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 9:55pm
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Didn't the website say it was 8m wide on the start/finish and 6m wide elsewhere? ------------- HRSO2 No 59 www.mbg-recumbent-racing.blogspot.com |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 10:44pm
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Yeh, that don't tell you the bend radii though Martin ------------- Right Time - Right Place - Wrong Speed |
Posted By: martinbguk
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 10:48pm
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Print the picture out, big scale, and measure it. s'easy ------------- HRSO2 No 59 www.mbg-recumbent-racing.blogspot.com |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 10:51pm
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I hope it's more accurate than the plans our architect drew up for our extension then
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Posted By: Andrew H
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 10:57pm
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Aaah, Geoff, you have to remember that architects aren't precise like engineers! When an engineer I know laid the footings for his new house himself, the brickie he hired couldn't believe his luck, because they were spot on! Andrew ------------- Andrew Horne One Challenge Wizard - so far |
Posted By: GeoffBird
Date Posted: 05 February 2011 at 11:02pm
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Too true! CAD systems work to 3 decimal places. Audi insist you do everything to an accuracy of 0.001 mm, but they are German (I can say that - some of my best friends are German).
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Posted By: LeeW
Date Posted: 06 February 2011 at 9:12am
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Building this extension of mine would be easier if the bricks were within at least 1.0mm, some of the bricks are 2-3mm thicker/wider/longer than others. I wonder if audi made bricks if they would be within 0.001mm.
Anyway, about the track, looks a nice one :) Providing we use the full track of course and not that extremely tight looking hairpin turn about half way. Any idea what the local are like around that area? Are they likely to put hazard tape across the track and then start laying bricks on it? ------------- Current fleet: Milan SL MK2 #027, Fujin SL II, Beany! |
Posted By: KeithD
Date Posted: 06 February 2011 at 10:06am
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The scale on the map was 1:1250 - but the document had a zoom of 50% when I took the screen shot. I'm not sure if that makes it 1:2500 or 1:0675 - it's too early on a Sunday morning to work that sort of thing out! There is a 2m fence on the map and in the photos - but I'm not sure if that is to keep the locals out or the visitors in!
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Posted By: Yanto
Date Posted: 10 February 2011 at 8:46pm
| having lived up that neck of woods (Yarm), Middlesbrough youth can be a err - wild! But no more than anywhere else we race! |