The Vulcan Cycling Club moved from their home at Tynecastle to be based at the new Northfield track and they held the first cycle race meeting there on 8th June 1907. The event included three foot races and amateur bicycle handicap races over half, one and three miles.
At the 31st Scottish Cyclists' Union meeting on 15th June 1907, the main event was the ten miles Championship of Scotland and the previous champion Dan Flynn rode, but machine problems ended his challenge and Logan of the Vulcan CC was victorious. Other events were half and one mile open handicaps with thirty entries and the £100 one mile SCU team Challenge Trophy race, which was won by Western District, lead by Flyn. The attendance at the meeting was poor, there were several punctures and there were complaints that the ground was in an exposed location. At the meeting, Dunedin Motor Cycling Club organised a motor cycle race, the winner, on a 5hp NSU achieved over thirty miles an hour. The Scotsman commented "As ordinary cycle races are rapidly dying out, there is an opportunity for motor cycle racing to take its place."
Hibernian Football Club never played at the ground, but they let out Northfield for dog racing and running. The experience of promoting bicycle racing at Northfield in 1907 seems to have discouraged the Hibs management, as there appeared to be no further bicycle racing after this time. Dog racing was the main attraction at Northfield with regular meetings and running races on Sundays were tried at the ground in 1909, which prompted the Scotsman to comment that it was "repugnant to the general sense of the community."
North British Railway Company, who owned the land, won a court order which allowed them to build a railway line over the ground. The line was never built, but Hibs lost interest in the site and remained at Easter Road, the Northfield Ground was developed for housing at what is now the area around Mountcastle Place.