Ride on

The complete project took 56 weeks, with a crucial five weeks allocated to the painstaking work of building the track itself. The track is formed using 376 Nordic pine laminated trusses at 600mm centres, while the surface timber is Baltic pine 6 metres in length. Trusses were surveyed into place with the 250m inside board meticulously placed as this board officially forms the measurement of the track. Securing the 185 laps of surface timber, each secret nailed into the previous inside layer and skew nailed into each truss at a rate of five nails per metre, was an exacting task requiring 2000 nails per lap (360,000 nails in total) to be hand-nailed by a team of 15 carpenters under the instruction of track designer Ralph Schürmann. The outer balustrade was formed with 3000 pieces of tongue and groove.

The finishing touches were selected from the Resene range of products, with Resene Armourchlor HBF white used to protect steelwork and Resene Lusta-Glo semi-gloss enamel tinted to Resene Silver Chalice (pewter grey), Resene Zylone Sheen tinted to Resene Crab Apple (red terracotta), Resene Athens Grey (pearl grey), Resene Mantle (pastel green) and Resene Killarney (shamrock green) and Resene Sonyx 101 semi-gloss acrylic tinted to Resene Crab Apple protecting all other areas in need of a lick of paint and a touch of colour.

With a world class track at their doorstep, the continual whirr of bike tyres is testament to the dedication of the cyclists.

Design and Built Contractor: Calder Stewart
Painting Contractor: HG Morsink
Resene: Hamish McLeod, Southland Trade Representative
Track Designer: Ralph Schürmann (Germany)
From the Resene News – issue 1/2007

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