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@El_Caucho
Wow amazing to see how Saffron lane track has just been abandoned. Last time I was there I was doing the motor-pacing. We we told at the time it would be used for for field hockey.
Basically it was the demographic change in the area that lead to its demise.
However the track was never a nice track to ride. The less steep tracks like Welwyn are more fun or short tracks like calshot.
There is a track in Trinidad I think that was as big as Welwyn but had the banking as steep as Saffron Lane and its impossible to ride up the banking unless you're going 40mph.