Re: [CR]Vigorelli spruce-up? Now Montreal 76 'drome

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From: "John Pergolizzi" <jtperry@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Grant McLean" <Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca>, "'William McGehee'" <wmcgehee1@juno.com>, <jimallen@nctimes.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Vigorelli spruce-up? Now Montreal 76 'drome
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:39:58 -0500
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

The Montreal Velodrome space is now an "EcoCenter", showing various aspects of the environment. The roof is hung from cables off of one main arm. Beautiful building, shame about the rest. ciao, John T.Pergolizzi LaJolla Ca. for two more weeks


----- Original Message -----
From: Grant McLean
To: 'William McGehee'
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: [CR]Vigorelli spruce-up? Now Montreal 76 'drome



> Thanks Bill, great stuff.
>
> Anyone know what became of the track from inside the Montreal velodrome?
> I thought it was some rare African wood, and I vaguely remember it was
> dissassembled and sold in the early 80's, as debt piled up after the '76
> olympics. The roof of the stadium is the shape of a classic leather
> hair net if I recall, but I don't know what the space is used for now.
>
> Grant McLean
> Toronto.Ca
>
>
> Bill McGehee:
> THE VIGORELLI "was an outdoor velodrome, it was semi-covered to lessen
> the
> effects of the wind. Its lightning surface was made of 2" by 2' slats of
> twenty foot long pine boards cut piece by piece from the centers of
> trunks of trees grown in a particular stand of Russian pine deep in
> Siberia.
>
> There, the pine grew slowly, making the wood more dense and practically
> without knots or splinters. A racing surface of this kind of wood was
> as firm and as smooth as could be created. Racers could use the lightest
> possible tires and, when Milan's air was still and dry in September, the
> combination created ideal conditions for setting records."
> Source: Winning March 1984

> Bill,

> F.B., Ga