Indoor artificial turf crits

[Fred Flintstein]

This part of the world is littered with indoor soccer
facilities. These guys are running off hours crits in
one of them, utilizing time when the facility would
otherwise be vacant. The bike of choice is a cross bike
because the surface is a little soft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48omON663Q

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[Plano Dude]

On Feb 1, 2:43*pm, Fred Flintstein >
wrote:
> This part of the world is littered with indoor soccer
> facilities. These guys are running off hours crits in
> one of them, utilizing time when the facility would
> otherwise be vacant. The bike of choice is a cross bike
> because the surface is a little soft.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48omON663Q
>
> F

The NSC used to hate cyclists. I'm surprised they haven't had an
afzelia bonfire.

[Fred Flintstein]

On 2/1/2012 11:19 PM, Plano Dude wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2:43 pm, Fred >
> wrote:
>> This part of the world is littered with indoor soccer
>> facilities. These guys are running off hours crits in
>> one of them, utilizing time when the facility would
>> otherwise be vacant. The bike of choice is a cross bike
>> because the surface is a little soft.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48omON663Q
>>
>> F
>
> The NSC used to hate cyclists. I'm surprised they haven't had an
> afzelia bonfire.

They're at peace with the velodrome. It doesn't cost them anything
and time will eventually remove it. I'm pretty sure it's past it's
projected life, and the maintenance effort is increasing exponentially.

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[Ryan Cousineau]

On Feb 1, 12:43*pm, Fred Flintstein >
wrote:
> This part of the world is littered with indoor soccer
> facilities. These guys are running off hours crits in
> one of them, utilizing time when the facility would
> otherwise be vacant. The bike of choice is a cross bike
> because the surface is a little soft.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48omON663Q
>
> F

I wrote a buddy who installs fields like this. He says one of the big
variables with artificial fields is how well the fake grass tufts
resist being pulled out of their anchor surface (the good fake grass
will break before it pulls out). He says if they're using the cheap
stuff, "could be an expensive event."

[Fred Flintstein]

On 2/6/2012 11:59 AM, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
> On Feb 1, 12:43 pm, Fred >
> wrote:
>> This part of the world is littered with indoor soccer
>> facilities. These guys are running off hours crits in
>> one of them, utilizing time when the facility would
>> otherwise be vacant. The bike of choice is a cross bike
>> because the surface is a little soft.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48omON663Q
>>
>> F
>
> I wrote a buddy who installs fields like this. He says one of the big
> variables with artificial fields is how well the fake grass tufts
> resist being pulled out of their anchor surface (the good fake grass
> will break before it pulls out). He says if they're using the cheap
> stuff, "could be an expensive event."

They've been doing this for a while, and I know they did some
testing before allowing it on a wider scale.

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