Paint Within the Lines

After a day of sanding every crack, seam and leftover bump to a smooth sheen, we've spent the last workday measuring, marking and painting lines on our track. Having some guidelines is important - there's a right way and a wrong way to use the Cyclodrome, and we made sure to clearly label both. The right way - the optimal, fastest route for a rider to hold - is marked out with a bright red line. To warn riders when they risk going off the track, we've put black and blue lines on the boundaries of the area that is safe to ride.

To add a special personal finish to Cyclodrome, we've put our own symbol on each side of the track, integrating it with the black safety lines. Cyclodrome's symbol has been a long time in the making, and we opted to make sure it went on precisely by lasercutting the spray-paint stencil on the right and using a spray adhesive to hold it in place while we set down our lines. The result is a smooth finish that stays on under the pressures inherent in having us scrambling all over it. To ensure that the track stays together under the far greater pressures of bike racing, we will next apply a sealer to protect both the surface and the lines. This will be the last major construction step, which is good as the sealer finish will take several days to set, in which we will want to avoid even walking on the treated track. With the paint completed, Cyclodrome now has the look and feel of a finished track, and it's almost ready to have the experience of one as well.