Red Bull Tiny Single Person Track

The Red Bull Mini Drome that will be coming to London soon has already made a couple of appearances around the world, notably in Auckland. Here are a couple of pics:


From here.


From here.

I suppose I don't really understand why, in a city where there's already a functioning, normal sized velodrome (you know, a velodrome capable of handling more than one rider at a time, so that people can, wait for it, race against each other), Red Bull would feel the need to build this tiny "let's put two weird quarter pipes facing each other and call it a velodrome" velodrome. It's probably that real velodromes aren't that much fun unless they have some Red Bull branding on them... This does look kind of fun, though.

[edit] Just realised that Tracko had video footage of this up months ago!