# First time at the track
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [September 14, 2009, 10:32am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009 "2009-09-14T10:32:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@kaido\_k](https://tarck.cc/u/kaido_k)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 10:32am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/1 "2009-09-14T10:32:19Z")
Filled up my bag with tools/shoes/etc and rode out to Keiokaku Velodrome which is a 400m track that is about a 30min ride from my house. This was my first time ever on a track and I had a blast. Rode to the track, rode at the track, and rode back from the track. Feels good, man.
Pay the lady at the table 500yen (roughly $6). Best 500yen I have ever spent.
Pre ride brief. We were split up into groups based on experience.
There were roughly 10+ people in the beginners group that I rode in. The rest were badasses including professional keirin racers.
Kind of last minute decision to go, so all I did was swap out to drops before I left the house, and swapped out to a 15t cog at the track. Rode 45 x 15 at the track. Felt OK…maybe slightly undergeared.
First time my tarck made it out to the track.
Beautiful Kiyo which a guy with stars on his shorts rode.
Serious BS
They had a kids clinic going on with kids on serious (little) bikes.
This is what they called a delney (spelling?). I was able to an interval with this thing leading.
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### Author:  [@turpencat](https://tarck.cc/u/turpencat)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/2 "2009-09-14T11:05:25Z")
babby bianchi tarck \<3
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### Author:  [@Jeremiah\_s\_Johnson](https://tarck.cc/u/Jeremiah_s_Johnson)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/3 "2009-09-14T11:28:44Z")
nice…
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### Author:  [@klondikebear](https://tarck.cc/u/klondikebear)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/4 "2009-09-14T13:29:06Z")
i’m jealous
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### Author:  [@conor](https://tarck.cc/u/conor)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/5 "2009-09-14T14:11:43Z")
sup ourys.
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### Author:  [@tjayk](https://tarck.cc/u/tjayk)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/6 "2009-09-14T14:17:40Z")
i spy ourys
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### Author:  [@everythinghuskie](https://tarck.cc/u/everythinghuskie)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/7 "2009-09-14T14:25:07Z")
ourys!
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### Author:  [@danggang](https://tarck.cc/u/danggang)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/8 "2009-09-14T15:11:01Z")
> [@Haagenize](#):
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> i’m jealous
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### Author:  [@maKdoo](https://tarck.cc/u/maKdoo)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/9 "2009-09-14T15:33:07Z")
ONLY 6 BUCKS! damn that’s awesome!
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Gnarlock](https://tarck.cc/u/Captain_Gnarlock)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/10 "2009-09-14T16:13:52Z")
awesome.
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### Author:  [@daedelus](https://tarck.cc/u/daedelus)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/11 "2009-09-14T16:22:36Z")
> [@kaido\_k](#):
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> This is what they called a delney (spelling?)
Ha. Derney.
I wish I lived that close to a track.
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### Author:  [@Neil\_240](https://tarck.cc/u/Neil_240)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/12 "2009-09-14T18:01:00Z")
I’m going to try to get to the track tonight on the new bike. It’s only a 10 minute ride and 5 bucks to ride and they even have bikes if you don’t have one.
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### Author:  [@grantrules](https://tarck.cc/u/grantrules)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/13 "2009-09-14T18:06:01Z")
I went to the track for the first time about a week ago. It was frickin rad. Kissena is free, just went up there with a buddy and did some laps.
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### Author:  [@blaupunkt](https://tarck.cc/u/blaupunkt)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/14 "2009-09-15T13:22:39Z")
I live less than 2 km away from the only proper and usable velodrome in this country and it’s all free since it’s a municipal sports facility. I only wish it’d be shorter, riding a steep 250m track would be so much more rad than the 400m like ours here. 🐻
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### Author:  [@kaido\_k](https://tarck.cc/u/kaido_k)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/first-time-at-the-track/15009/15 "2009-09-15T16:10:36Z")
Jussi I wish it was like that over here. I want to start riding at a track at least once a week but it seems like that is something you can’ t do out here unless you are on a team or something. All these velodromes in Japan but pretty much limited, to no access for the public to ride on.