Backyard Dirt Tracks

Where the F do you folks live? I'll just create a mile long track in my backyard

 

Cmon Powerball!

 

You guys are welcome to say Missouri sucks, but it's easy to find 20+ acres for sale within 30 minutes of a decent sized city, and for a reasonable price if you're not planning on building a mcmansion on it.

 

Oh wait...you said Missouri..I think I'm ok where I am then

 

You don't know what you're missing!

 

You live in NYC right? head north and there's all kinds of areas that could have a backyard track.
A guy near me has this in his backyard

 

wow. just getting to the house you can clip some apexes...

 

Robby-Bobby. Thanks for sharing the info! I just bought a tractor with a FEL and a rear blade...i will be picking up a box blade too in the spring. I was hoping to build a small flat track like the one Herrin had next spring. I would like to do a road course section that ties into it also. The soil here in SE WI is VERY sandy. I have a flat 8 acre hay field and a large creek in the back. I was going to get some sort of a water tank trailer and use a gas water pump to fill it....pretty much unlimited access to water. Will the sand allow me to create a decent track? or should I look into trucking in clay.? My neighbor is an excavator/landscaper and offered to help with the grading and trucking if needed. I would guess that trucking in clay could get expensive pretty quickly.

 

Depends. The sand is fun and will give you a cushion type track but it will get rough quickly.

I'd suggest making a chain fence drag on the cheap. That'll smooth it out and easy as pulling it behind a truck tractor or quad depending how big you make it.

Those types of tracks teach great front end steering as it's always pushing you you gotta learn to control front wheel tucks and slides.

If you're wanting a more consistent and hard surface, clay is the way to go. It'll pack and after a while you'll form a "blue groove"

However, to rework the clay you'll need lots of water and good equipment.

Kinda just depends on your needs and the equipment you plan to keep.

 

Cool thanks. I'll just start with what is there and see how it goes. Maybe I will tell my neighbor to watch for someone looking to get rid of clay fill on a project.....might be able to get it for free if I don't have a timeline.

 

Ryan make sure you invite us locals when you get it set up

 

Invite me too!! I love wrecking people on 100's

 

The more the merrier!

 

Track 2.0 will be ready if the snow and rain ever stop long enough to dry out a bit so i can get the drag back out.

 

This is what I'm thinking. Not too big. A key hole or two, some off camber. Huge giggle factor.

 

Its a non stop circus with a few bikes out there. Last year two bikes went for the same line and one guy end up getting pulled about 20ft with his leg stuck between the muffler and the rear wheel of the other bike until it pulled his leg in far enough to stall the bike. I had never been paralyzed by fear and laughter at the same time until then.

 

Anyone have a good picture of their drag? I am curious how to build a good one.

Speaking of 100s. That is what I plan to run at my track. Do they handle better with the 19" or 16" front? I have to buy another set of rims anyway....so it wont be saving me any coin to stick with the 19". I plan to incorporate a road course section that ties into the oval. I was going to just run a knobby front and one of my BT45s on the rear. I have one set of rims with BT 45s (16" front and rear), a set of rims with ice tires (19" front and 16" rear).....I just plan to build a set of dirt wheels and I should have every combo i need.

 

Is that in the middle of a soybean field ?

 

what do you think of roughly this dimension? maybe a little slower track is better? This is about the size I imagined......but the whole point is to get better road race skills....I do not plant to ever race flat track

 

Would it be crazy to think you could build a small ice oval inside the dirt one for winter? scrape off ~4 inches of top soil...throw down a rubber liner.....pump water from the creek into it...its only about 200' from where the track will be.