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• Our next meeting will be held on Monday,  July 7th at 7PM.  A meeting link will be sent to all 2024 and 2025 members by email.
• The 2025 riding schedule is up!  Keep in mind it is tentative and subject to change.
• During the riding season we will host a short live SATRA club meeting, at 1PM, at the first club ride each month.  All riding members are required to attend!
• NEW - ALL members (working and non working) who attend the Unadilla track rides are required to sign up for a one hour time slot to flag.  A family member or friend may flag in your place.
• We are using google calendar to display club rides.  It will be updated as our ride dates are finalized, but is always subject to change.
• ​Plan on sending in your membership application at least a week before your first club ride.  If you need to join on a track day, there will be a $20 surcharge added to your membership dues.​

History of our motocross club

SATRA is an acronym for "Syracuse Area Trail Riders Association".  SATRA was formed in the early 1980's, and was comprised of mainly trail riding enthusiasts.
Over the years, SATRA transitioned into a mostly motocross club, since most of our rides take place at Central New York State motocross tracks. 
We do not hold races.  We rent tracks on their off weekends, to allow our riders a more low key type of riding environment.
Members are encouraged to ride at their own pace in a non-competitive environment.  Many of our riders are now over 50 years old.
Our goal is to simply have fun while enjoying the sport we love.​

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2025 News
UPDATE 6/9/25: Our High Voltage ride on 6/7 was epic.  The track was in excellent condition early, though it did get pretty rough and dusty later.  We held a short meeting at the track updating members on recent club issues.   Our next ride is scheduled for the Unadilla Rewind track (national track with a few changes) on 6/14.  Anyone riding that day will be required to do an hour of flagging (or have a friend or family member flag) during the ride.  This is a requirement of Unadilla's insurance.  We will also be required to provide separate ride times for youth only (another requirement of the insurance company).   Details will be worked out this week and communicated by email or at the ride.
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UPDATE 6/3/25: We had a very informative meeting with lots of discussion about our Unadilla Flagging work duties and other topics.  Next meeting will be held July 7th on ZOOM only.
UPDATE 6/2/25: Our Compound ride on 5/31 turned out wet, cold and muddy.  Scotty allowed us to cancel the ride.  But for the people that showed and wanted to ride, he let us pay for single open practice rate per person.  We had 5 guys try it out.  We're discussing the possibility of a mid week reschedule, which we'll decide at the meeting tonight.

UPDATE 5/28/25: Our rescheduled Thornwood MX ride went off without a hitch Monday with 40 riders attending.  The track started a bit soft, but worked in well with a great opportunity to practice jumping with rutted jump faces!  Overall the conditions were awesome considering the rain we had previous to the ride.  (We took in 10 new membership applications!)  And Melissa Clark was out taking lots of photos.  You'll see them posted on the SATRA Facebook site as soon as I can edit and post them.  Feel free to tag yourself and download pics. Our next ride is at the Compound.  Kevin and I communicated with Scotty Rich (track owner) asking him to "vet" groom shallow for our ride (to prevent those long multiple ruts through every corner and jump face and landing).  He is perfectly willing to do it, however if lots of rain comes, he'll have to groom deep for the water to sink in and we'll get his regular pro-groomed track.  Either way we'll get a challenging track with lots of very forgiving doubles/tabletops/triples.  

UPDATE 5/25/25: Our SATRA club ride at Thornwood has been rescheduled for Monday 5/26/25 (Memorial Day) from 11-5.

UPDATE 5/18/25:  We FINALLY got our first ride in at Frozen Ocean Saturday the 17th.  We expected a rain out but got dry dusty conditions instead.  We had a bunch of new members show up (which was awesome).  Our 1PM club meeting was well attended and informative. About 3pm or so a major wind and rain storm kicked up which sent us packing up in haste!

UPDATE 5/9/25 : Our ride for this weekend at East Hill MX has been cancelled due to wet weather with hopes of rescheduling possibly for a mid-week ride sometime soon.   Our first club ride will now be at Frozen Ocean on Saturday May 17th.   

UPDATE 5/5/25 : Our ride schedule has been changed for this weekend. The Geer Farm ride is cancelled, to be rescheduled later.  East Hill's ride that was cancelled last week has been rescheduled for this Saturday, 5/10/25 from 11AM to 5PM. 

UPDATE 3/25/25 : We held a special meeting on Monday 3/24/25.  We had 16 people attend the ZOOM meeting.  We talked about the Unadilla National flagging details and our rides there.  It looks like we'll have a weekend club ride there on June 28-29th, with possible options for another ride.  
Our ride schedule is almost finalized.  We're waiting on a couple tracks to confirm dates and should be able to publish a TENTATIVE schedule by the weekend.  Thanks to Budd Honda for his work in putting that puzzle together!  We presently have 24+ rides at 12 track locations including a couple weekend rides with camping available.

Update 2/26/25 : We're well on our way to updating membership details and 2025 ride schedule.  Our biggest challenge is waiting for details on our Unadilla work/ride plans.  They are facing lots of new challenges this year which are holding up progressing forward.  Things are looking more positive in adding new track locations for our club rides.   For more details and to add your voice, join us March 3rd by ZOOM for our next club meeting.  All 2024 members will get a link by email.  Anyone else interested please message our Facebook page or leave a message on the hotline and we'll send you as link.  

As of 1/19/25 we've already had 2 club meetings!  One was a regular club meeting, while the other was an informational meeting with Greg from Unadilla.  We're mainly working on updating the website, paperwork, work requirements, yada yada yada.  Check the NEW gallery tab for club member pics.  PM a picture of yourself and I'll get it on the page!  We hope to have membership applications finalized earlier than in previous years - (thanks Bob Frost).   Our goal is to be ready to go by the first of March.   We are in the process of putting together schedules of all the surrounding MX series so we can map out our own club rides - (thanks Budd Honda).  We're reaching out to a few additional local tracks to see if we can add additional ride locations.  As always, whether you're a current member, or just curious about the club, you are welcome to attend monthly meetings.  The February meeting will be virtual on Zoom Monday the 3rd and welcome to all.  Current members will get an email with the meeting link.  Anyone else interested in attending just PM the Facebook page and I'll get you the link.  We're looking forward to another great SATRA MX Club riding season in 2025!