The Compound MX

The Compound MX is a dedicated practice and training facility on South Granby Road in Fulton, in the Town of Granby just north of Syracuse in Oswego County. Built in 2015 as a private practice track, owners Angelo Komuda and Scotty Drake opened the gates to the public in early 2019, and it has since grown into central New York's structured training headquarters.

The track was built by John Steiner of MX Track Builders in California and was designed to be the first of its kind in the Northeast. It carries every obstacle you would find on a professional motocross track while staying rideable for all skill levels, and the soil is the part riders talk about: an all natural mixture running from heavy clay through to deep sand, which is not something you find elsewhere in the region. The main track has a full irrigation and watering system and gets tilled to a depth of 12 inches, so it rides like race conditions rather than a hardpacked practice groove. The track's own measure of it is that even the quickest riders are held to a two and a half minute lap.

Open practice runs Tuesday through Friday from 4 PM to 8 PM and Saturday from 11 AM to 4 PM, at $40 per rider per session, with a season practice membership at $650 covering all public practice days. Riders are grouped by pace rather than turned loose together: A and B riders get 20 minutes on their own, then C and D riders get theirs, then the smaller bikes, and the rotation repeats.

One thing to plan around. The Compound bills itself as a five day a week facility, and that is its capacity, but the days that actually run are posted week by week and always weather permitting. Some weeks it is Tuesday through Thursday plus Saturday, some weeks it is a single Wednesday evening. They tell riders to check the page before leaving the house, and that is genuinely worth doing here.

Training is half the business. There is a season long program for a select number of riders that runs every Wednesday evening from April through October, working through form, braking, cornering, entrance and exit speed, jumping, scrubbing and starts, plus sprint motos, endurance motos, and solo and partner drills. Alongside it they run complete motocross training for all ages and abilities and private sessions for riders who want maximum seat time. Multi day camps run through the season too, including a three day Loretta Lynn's regional camp open to qualifying and non qualifying riders.

The coaching pedigree is real. Scotty Drake spent years living in Cairo, Georgia at the Millsaps Training Facility, and in their first year working with amateur riders both of their full time athletes qualified for the Amateur National title race at Loretta Lynn's. Their riders have since collected more than 30 state championships along with national podium finishes and regional titles.

This is a practice and training venue, not a race track, so there is no race calendar to chase. Riding days and session bookings post to their Facebook and Instagram, and Scott Drake takes calls on (315) 529-9708 to book time.