Re: [CR]Clockwise or no? Paging Ted Ernst

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From: "aldoross4" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Clockwise or no? Paging Ted Ernst
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:27:13 -0500


(Ted might want to refer to this image from his presentation at Cirque last year)

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/pd/051_G.jpg.html

Aldo Ross Middletown, Ohio
  
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
> From: Jay Sexton <jvs@sonic.net>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Clockwise or no? Paging Ted Ernst
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:31:34 -0700
>
> > Ted Ernst hasn't chimed in on this one yet. If anybody
> > would have the skinny, he would.
> >
> > Jay Sexton
> > Sebastopol, CA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the direction of
> > racing. In US, almost all oval tracks [for any kind of
> > racing; foot, bike, motor, roller skates...] seem to go
> > counterclockwise. Motor "road" racing in the US is
> > generally clockwise (tho' I remember Upper Marlboro, Md.
> > was counter but it included part of a banked oval).
> > European motor racing is usually clockwise including
> > closed road circuits like Nurburgring, the old bankings
> > at AVUS and Monza, and open road courses like the Mille
> > Miglia. The banked Brooklands track in England ran
> > counterclockwise. English and American horse racing
> > seem to run counterclockwise generally, but Longchamps
> > in Paris appears to be clockwise. I cannot deduce a
> > rule.
> > David Bean
> > Arlington, MA
> > beandk at are-see-enn dot com