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I am about to move to Mahopac, NY and was wondering if there are any indoor motocross track in NY or the sourounding states? Also what is the closest places to ride during the winter as far as outdoor tracks go? SOB? Weinert training facility? Would like to keep wherever I travel within 10 hrs or so… Completely new to the area so kind of nervous about trying to find places to ride during the week and what not when most tracks are closed. I know winter is coming so I figure most tracks are closing for the season anyways. I would like to find some places to practice during the week or maybe a few sand tracks that people may ride year round when there is not to much snow on the ground? Ruffer the track the better
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Stephen
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Stephen
first, always look at the weather for every weekend, if it's somewhat nice there are alot of tracks in ny. i know broome tioga pretty much runs all year
it may be a hike but we like to go down to snake creek in harrington,de. i believe in the winter if you can handle riding in 40 or so degrees temps, sometimes you get really nice weekends because it is pretty south. also we might try to check out speed citi mx also, i think it's close so just watch the weather and if looks like a nice weekend try it out. they till it up nice to at snake creek so they get good ruts even when its cold. it''s sorta sandy mix so it's harder to freeze. check out some vids online
i have ridden sob and tracks around there in march and some days it's really nice and some it's cold. i know they ride all year round at sob, club mx, weinerts sp.?
anyway there is no shortage of tracks if you're willing to drive. we just went down to the pine barrons in south jersey today to ride some trails and some rough whoop tracks. it's illegal riding but it is so fun, been going there since i was a kid.
edit. also, walden mx in ny has a open practice next weekend. it usually on saturday but you can check their website. the track is so so but it may be close to you
Several town residents were very fast - Keith Trocoli, Dennis and Herb Tompkins, Pete Ferone and several others.
All of them had their place and most were members at Walden.
There are several smaller "no mans land" places to ride in and around the area as well. Ride at your own risk though.
But nothing indoors that I know of, at least not since the roof fell in at Moto-Town a few years back.
Your best hope is to pray for a mild winter and hit the Pine Barren's south of exit 75 off the GSP.
Its gotta be better than Indy in the winter!
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good for an non- pro who hasn't ridden indoors before just to get laps in to stay in shape, no Rythym sections.
very close to there as well is Gopher Dunes outdoor national sand track which drains very well ( when it's not under snow.)
Last I hear from a friend (Finkle), he lived in Wingdale and had his yard / shop somewhere near Mahopac. But that was several years ago.
Seem to recall something about quitting chasing the dream, and starting a business removing oil tanks.
That was perhaps the best place I ever rode, hands down.
Totally overgrown, but still had the paved cart paths, sand traps and ball scrubbers. The ball scrubbers made for great corner markers...while the rest of the place was just epic. I remember the track was nearly three minutes long, and used all the sand traps....
I think IBM owned the land - what an amazing place to ride at.
Many people here ride at that Pine Barrons place? I tried looking stuff up about it, but like someone wrote up above it looks like its illegal. How strictly is it enforced? Like if you get caught do they just tell you to leave or try taking your bike away?
Also I figured Budds/DIlla and 338 are not far so definitely hit those places. Does Dilla still only have like 3 events a year or do they hold races/open practice?
I have heard both English town and Blue Diamond mx are awesome places? Anyone go to these tracks much?
There is some good riding that will be pretty local for you. Not as much as there used to be but still some decent spots and tracks that are open.
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We get a good bit of guys from New York Area and the latest support rider of NY rider Sunny Drake set to compete in arena cross. Sunny has been testing and putting in laps at Switchback.
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The 125/250 Expert gates back then were stacked! The older generation had Scott Sheak, Eric Reilly, Eric Richards, Carlo Coen, Mike Spear, Drew Baier, Kurt McMillen, Keith Troccoli, Shane Stephenson, Tommy Schneider, Steve Katsenavakis, Terry Finkle.
After those guys it was the up and coming youngsters like Ryan Mills, Mike Leavitt, Kyle Hutson, Mike Stryker, Jimmy McNeill, Johnny Lawrence, Jay Weller, Davey Sterritt etc...
What made those times even better was when the Northeast Classic races came to town. Throw in Bobby Kiniry, Bruce Stratton, Dave Kratz, Ty Wallace, Barry Carsten, Mike Veracka, Paul Veracka and it was on...
I miss those days.
Englishtown is great. It gets watered and groomed although it gets pretty hammered late in the day because it gets a lot of traffic. There are flaggers and ambulances. Ditto with Walden and Echo Valley, though these two are usually only open on practice days before a race. Orange County is also decent though it seems a bit less prepped and flagged, but it is open regularly. I haven't been to AK but would love to - looks nice. Claverack also looks great but is rarely open and I don't think there is open practice, you just have to race. My days of that are past, but it looks good enough that I flirt with the idea.
I have only been to Rocky Hill once and it was kinda a shit show because of standing water/mud. It was during the week so maybe not a fair comparison, but certainly didn't have the look of a track that gets regular prepping. No flaggers or ambulance, either, if things like safety matter to you. The layout didn't flow well for me in certain parts but it's still a fun track. The good news is that it's open frequently, so it wouldn't really be practical to prep/flag. It's affordable too relative to most others.
I haven't been but there's also Field of Dreams MX in Millville, NJ. It looks very nice, has "yellow flag" traffic signals near jumps, and looks like it's well cared for, and is open frequently. It costs a bit more to ride, though.
There's a bunch of tracks on the edge of PA that I haven't been to but would love to visit.
If you're ever at Englishtown, look for a "modern" YZ125 with 357 on it and come say "Hi!".
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