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Old 25-06-2013
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The Barrow club has secured some land as permanent site for an astro track! The aim is to be finished in time for next years regional round but hopefully will be running a bit before then.





This is the track and car parking area. It's just a bit bigger than a rugby pitch giving us room for a huge track, permanent rostrum and ample room for parking/pitting. There's a massive storage container on site already and we have just cleared a path to build an entrance. Practically the whole area is hardcored already and just requires a bit of landscaping to make it into an off road track. Drainage is excellent. The pictures doesn't really do justice to the size of the area we have.

The only access to the land was through someone else's land so we set to work making our own entrance. The most suitable place unfortunately was hiding behind a hedge and bramble growth 6-8ft high and 30ft deep! That wasn't going to stop 4 barrow lads with 2 machetes and rake lol and a 7am start saw the lot cleared by dinnertime.














Next up is to hardcore the entrance and build a permanent gate ready for the astro delivery.

There will be more updates for anyone interested in following the building of the venue in due course and of course any advice, tips and comments are welcomed.
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This is awesome!
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Great news boys! Can't wait for next years regional on astro.

Hopefully I won't be last again.
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Good luck lads will have to have a ride up next year when it's built
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lack of ppe there boys watch out for woodys h/s speach.

Hopefuly no-one will slip and gets carpet burns
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Ruddy good news
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A massive well done fellas.
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Great work lads, can't wait to see the work in progress.. And give it a blast when you are done
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Great work lads, can't wait to race on it at the regional next year, but if its finished ealier what about a sprecial inaguration meeting??

Keep the pics coming.

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Long way to race with you regular but a one off we're open meet's definitely a doer + a spring and autumn cup and regional, could be good, if I could offer any suggestions it would be good multi directional features and a multitude of layout options, never can get my head round people making an unchangeable track, but good luck nether the less looks like your gonna have some late nights and blisters.
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well done boys , hope youve got lots of jumps and off road features planned for it
and good drainage to,
i really liked barrow club hope this track gos well for you
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Old 02-07-2013
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All the best boys, remember all this hard work will be worth it when you have a great track, will be good to venture up to you next year for sure. Keep up informed of progress
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