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- From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)
- Subject: Re: Tracks
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:23:21 GMT
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- In article <1353@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
- >tomes@iastate.edu writes:
- >:
- >: and now, for something completely different....
- >:
- >:
- >: Why the hell aren't there any road racing tracks in Iowa? We have the
- >: second highest per capita concentration of bikes in the US (behind CA) and
- >: a whole lot of unused farmland. Seems to me the big spaces and central
- >: location might be a good combination..... and give me somewhere to go that
- >: is closer than Elkhart. The Drag operations seem to be doing good business,
- >
- >
- > Find a Farmer with alot of land and nothing to plant...with the
- > recession on and the Gov't paying farmers not to plant grain or
- > rice or whatever...maybe if the bikers of the area could
- > pursuade him, he might pave it over as a medium sized
- > track...would be a little expensive to pave that much land
- > but...well a ring around his property would be great...wheat in
- > the infield and bales of hay on the outside of the track...set
- > up some stands and he could charge admission...and in the off
- > season, farm the infield....
- >
- > any comments??
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- If you build it, they will come?
-
- > Ryan
- >
-
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