{"id":175,"date":"2007-12-27T13:34:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T03:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-12-27T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T03:34:44","slug":"franklin-velodrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Velodrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Mischa and I headed south this morning to go on a relic track hunt.. It was a fun little road trip but not as fruitfull as the New Norfolk venture. Firstly we checked out the Franklin Velodrome. It is another outdoor oval affair, a round track, slightly banked with no real straights in it. Overgrown to hell and the edges were crumbling. Apperently someone pulled all the weeds out of it a few years ago slowing its rate of decay. Not a particularly inspiring track, probably would have been slighly below the quality of\u00a0Newtown &#8216;s velodrome in its day..<\/p>\n<p>Next we headed to Kingston to assess the old BMX track. It was trashed. Kinda a shame that BMX racing, like Track, has declined to a point were these tracks has been left untended\u00a0to overgrow and fall into disrepair.<\/p>\n<p>Our final stop was the TCA cricket ground at the Domain. Dave Welsh was telling me that back in the 1930&#8217;s they used to hold &#8216;grass-track&#8217; races around the oval and that the banked turns are still in place.. Well we had to see this for ourselves&#8230; and yep, the banked velo track is still there!! Haha! I would love to hold some events there! Skid city!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-176\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=176\" title=\"franklin-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/franklin-2.jpg\" alt=\"franklin-2.jpg\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mischa and I headed south this morning to go on a relic track hunt.. It was a fun little road trip but not as fruitfull as the New Norfolk venture. Firstly we checked out the Franklin Velodrome. It is another outdoor oval affair, a round track, slightly banked with no real straights in it. Overgrown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Franklin Velodrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}