That's me too, but I do think it would be fun to watch.
Yeah about three years ago used Keirin certified frames were showing up on eBay but they wanted ridiculous amount of money and they almost always had been crashed. Just before the pandemic they seemed to drop in asking price. Everyone wants the Japanese Keirin NJS certified bikes as everything is old school. International and Olympic Keirin racing is dumb in my opinion, carbon, components, aero disc wheels, helmets that look like a jet fighter canopy and no goons or goonish behavior. There is a wecipedia web site that lists all professional cycle racing deaths since about 1900. Something like 90% occured from track racing. It’s dangerous.
There is an oval grass track in Kansas. Grass track racing was extremely popular in BritIan in the 1930s. Bicycle manufacturers made high end grass track bikes like the Claud Butler DSH model. It’s still popular in northern Britain amongst working class people. All you need is a field, lay it out as long as you want, use a string and sticks to determine the corners and put down orange rubber cones or use chalk to mark it. They can be smooth or bumpy.Notes:
video 1.
1. How small is that rear cog?
2. For fun, slow down video speed to 1/4 normal, listen to the chains flying around!
3. Cool down at end = me flat out.
video 2.
1. Surprised "goon" wore pink.
2. Head butt / pit maneuver fail.
Maybe a soft surface made up of recycled tires like playgrounds and full pads for safety.
Your right, they did do cycle speedway in bomb craters. That gradually gave way for more purpose built tracks in bombed out waste land. I have one of these, looks almost the same but it’s a Hercules instead of a Phillips.
Me too
The only way that seat angle makes you faster is because it pinches your jock so you want to get it over with as soon as possible. Nah, no thank you.
