The rumors you’ve heard are true. Black Duck Valley motorcycle park closed at 4pm on Monday, 8th December, 28. The closure of the park is due to their insurance provider canceling the insurance policy they held for public liability insurance. The exact reason for canceling the policy is not known, however speculation suggests the bad publicity they had received from the clueless state coroners inquest earlier this year suggests that it is a high risk business to insure. Given the state of the current financial markets, insurance companies will be looking to drop high risk business in favour of lower risk entities so that it can maximise profits.
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Mate, just had to reply to your post. I agree that it is really bad for the motorcycling community and the industry that black duck has closed down, but in my opinion there was quite a bit that could have been done differently. As much as I hate insurance companies, I agree that Black Duck was considered “High Risk.” Now Black Duck has followed the footsteps of Weekend Warriors into extinsion. Now you said that the tracks were safe and well looked after. Now I only went there twice and I wondered to myself when i got there if any maintenance had ever been done to the tracks ever. They were far from safe, you would have been better off running slicks rather than knobby tyres, because the tracks were so slick, and extremely slippery. Then add to that track design, and organisation. One of my biggest gripes was that there was no control in regards to anything. I went out for my first ride when I was there and was checking out the “advanced track” at a relatively slow pace really, on the first couple of laps, jumping a few of the medium sized tabletops, and checking out some lines, and as i was mid air over one of those tabletops, there is some tiny kid on his KX60 on the downramp riding at snails pace around the “advanced track.” I had to do well not to land on him. Now that was ridiculous, and no one in sight controlling who went where. Another thing that made me shake my head was the fact that you could rock up to this place having never ridden a bike before, build up some courage (or dutch courage, which i saw as well) and go out and hit these tracks with 100 foot and 140 foot jumps. No matter what you were riding or wearing. There were swappers there on old CR500s and the like riding in jeans and a shirt, no gloves, convinced they are the next Ricky Carmichael. No wonder people got hurt and killed. In my opinion the tracks were way to fast, for example the famous “80 footer track” as all the bandits called it had a straight on it you could tap out a 450 on. And the track was slippery as hell. The track designs were not thought out well at all. They tracks needed to be a lot slower, flow a lot better, have mulch put through them continously, as well as ripping them and watered constantly. Now I heard they had 14 full time staff. Now what were these people doing. Serving hot dogs cos they werent prepping the tracks, unless they just didnt know what they were doing. Now I really think a venture could be done properly and it needs to be done soon otherwise the sport is really going to fall in a heap in a big way, which will leave a lot of people probably leaving the sport, and those who do try and stick with it a lot of travel time just to try and get a ride. Now if you consider the state of the local SEQ motocross scene, it is in a real bad state and it would be good to hear from Motorycling QLD that forward steps were being made. Stanmore’s future is shaky at best, but have been told that the current land is ok until a replacement site is found, but then there seems to be not too many people keen on helping to keep the club alive, Tivoli is in a similar boat as far as land situation goes with the site set for development, with a replacement location to be found, Reedy Creek have been pushing there luck for years it seems but hopefully a replacement location is available to those guys, and then there is Coolum, which isnt super close, but still well worth the drive, but rumours suggest that they are under the pump too for there land. I really hope there are some positive steps made very soon for the future of our sport. Thanks for listening.
hi, just a quick comment. my brother his two sons ,myself and my son and daughter along with numerous friends all enjoyed black duck valley. not for the motorcross tracks but for the toyo loop and enduro loop trail rides,we weren’t about full speed and jumping just trail rides at a nice pace .this park suited us nicely now we have nowhere to ride these types of trails legally.i also ues my bike to and from work as does my brother both having our licences for more than twenty years, but now where can we teach our kids to ride safely the way we were at a young age