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Default Aire Valley Buggy Club

Anyone remember it?

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Yes

did 2 or 3 regionals there back in the early 90's with Yokomo's I had then

I have the old site listed in
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=...22295&t=h&z=16
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brill club and one of my favourite tracks,pure dirt.

awesome in the dry..not so awesome when it rained as the oil on the track meant it didnt soak away.
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Yeah, my favourite track. Used to race there at club meeting in the early nineties. Remember going to the Reedy race in ’92(i think??). Was a brilliant venue and track.


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We used to go on a Wednesday night after school!

Anyone got any pictures to bring back old memories.....

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Yea i remember going once, wasnt the track all dirt/dust and sort of worn into the ground?
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I remember Aire Valley from 93 and 94 doing the BRCA National Series.

The venue and track was amazing for us Scots, who only ever raced on flat grass tracks. Always had the wrong tyres with us until we managed to get a hold of the soft proline fuzzies.

Such a shame to see it as a tarmac car park on the google map.

I can remember the road trips, the camping, and the memories like yesterday, just soo wish I had some photographs.

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I raced there a few times back in the early 90's, all that chip shop oil!

I remember being starstruck at the Reedy Race
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Ive got a VHS of the 1992 Reedy Invitational there, maybe someone out there can convert it to digital ? Or can i do it myself
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Brings back good memories, i remember camping over with rob gammon and adz clark for the brass monkey event ,listening to shabba ranks all night it was fecking freezing. I think houses have been built on the site now.
Did quite a few endurances there as well, it got quite messy in the rain, wasnt the tyre of choice the schumacher bibx (brown dot) if i remember rightly.
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I remember Aire Valley!!

Here is a few old Pictures Ive found!




I am sure I have more at home somewhere!! OMG How Young do I look on these Pictures!

Use to love he Camping, and loved the dirty track!
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my laptop has a video capture card james so i could just hook the video player up to it and record it if need be,,video player hasnt been used for about 10 yrs tho

yeah we did a few endurance meetings there too,it never stopped raining for both of them and one of them we had to race on the tarmac car park it was that bad lol
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I can remember the road trips, the camping, and the memories like yesterday, just soo wish I had some photographs.
I can still recall seeing a flasher in the woods on the way to the venue

just glad I haven't got the photos, it was a male
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I seem to remember AVBC, but I recall it being all grass, behind a rugby club. I think they gave rosettes instead of trophies? I guess this was about 1986 or 87, so maybe their previous venue?
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i think there was an archery club if i recall as you went thru the main gates?
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[QUOTE=Gemma;381195]I remember Aire Valley!!

Here is a few old Pictures Ive found!




That's me in the grey ICI coat and flat cap

Young lad in red sleeves may be Micheal Durham

And Russel Towers nearest camera
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i think there was an archery club if i recall as you went thru the main gates?
Yeah, archery, I remember went for a regional one year and we all had to go across the road to race on grass cos there was an archery world championship or something.

We had a sneaky go on the (wet, of course) track late on, I think I blew a receiver...
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Hey, was my regular club for many years. I watched as a child when they raced at Yarnbury Rugby Club and also at Lee Lane High School for the indoor season. I started racing over at Ferndale for the indoor season then raced outdoors at Appley Bridge. Started off at the far end of the venue behind some changing rooms or some sort of building on grass then later moved nearer the main road on the grass. A while later I was one of the occasional members who would help out with the building of the permanent track. I did like the track but with it being permanent the same layout every week got abit boring. I have a few friends on facebook who I raced with back then including Martin Robinson and Carl Groth. As for me well you lot named me Madcowie back then and it stuck and today I run my own business called Madcowie Productions (computer games). Happy days they were for sure!
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club used to be up in horsforth at yarnbury rugby club then moved to greengates
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Madcowie!!!! Cool man.

There's a few of us from back in the day on here. Even Alan Lovell who is username 'Aire Valley'. He races at Batley with grand kids I think. Even the Kempy Bros still race from time to time & they still work at Modelsport and so does Jools and Bob. I see Chimmy Butt and Colin & Graham Gill ever so often to. Nothing ever changes!!! If you wanna reminisce join IconicRC FB group they love the vintage stuff.


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Can't believe they still call you Madcowie!!! Classic!

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