Vandalism at the Sunbury BMX Tracks will mean meets are cancelled for weeks.
On Sunday, July 13, the Sunbury BMX Club was made aware that the BMX start gate was vandalised, with lane three torn open.
Club member Damon Hocking was upset to see the damage affecting riders.
“We think someone was up here over night time … and dropped something they didn’t want to drop and went to the extent of damaging our gate,” he said.
“Now lane three isn’t useable until we can resolve it and fix it and get the part from where the gate’s manufactured from, in France.”
Club members have patched the extensive hole with a plank of wood, but the gate won’t be rideable for some time.
The club’s events won’t be able to run while the gate is still damaged.
“We have gate nights on a Tuesday night, and there’s 30 to 50 riders, possibly on those nights and races we get up to 150 riders,” Mr Hocking said.
“Essentially, we can’t use this gate because we can’t operate all eight lanes until that hole is fixed.”
The start gate is also having electrical problems unrelated to the vandalism, which is also affecting the use of the gate.
The club expects the gate to be fixed within the next month.
