Forest City (London, ON) track surfaced!

Eddie Arzouian

The Forest City covered cycling track in London, Ontario has been surfaced!
Racing will begin by the end of the month.

This is fantastic news.

I picked up some of this text from the track web site at:
http://www.forestcityvelodrome.ca

"Designed by Albert Coulier, the track has been built in the vacant Ice House hockey arena in the south end of London. Coulier's company, Apollo Velodrome Systems, has constructed dozens of tracks over the decades, including Olympic and world championship tracks in Montreal, Pan Am tracks in Winnipeg and other temporary tracks in arenas in Canada and the United States.

The track itself will be owned by individuals who wish to buy shares in a publicly-held corporation. A not-for-profit organization, the Forest City Velodrome Association, will operate the races, clinics and other activities at the track. Businesses and members of the public can become involved by owning shares in the track itself; donating to the not-for-profit corporation; becoming a partner; or volunteering time to help run learn-to-race and other development programs. "

http://www.forestcityvelodrome.ca/i...l1205corner.jpg

Looking at the photo above, I do have one question for Rob Good or Albert Cloutier who designed the track. It seems there are seams! What I mean is that it appears that the two rows of plywood are all butted one agaist each other in the same place forming a joint right in the middle of the track, half-way across it. Why isn't the plywood staggered, like when buildiong afloor, to avoid having one seam right in the middle?