Where Do You Run Your Rc's

[tamiya monkey 223]

Im based in rotherham, south yorkshire and would love it if there was a club closeby that i could join, myself and the clumber meets crew meet up every two weeks for a bash at clumber park, and sometimes a beach.

so where do you all run your cars/trucks and are you a member of a club or anything.

[knotty 0]

Im based in rotherham, south yorkshire and would love it if there was a club closeby that i could join, myself and the clumber meets crew meet up every two weeks for a bash at clumber park, and sometimes a beach.

so where do you all run your cars/trucks and are you a member of a club or anything.

im in west yorks not that far from you and usually just bash about in the back garden or the street or if we are taking the kisd to pugneys in wakey i have them with me for a run round there

[taliesin 260]

Mostly in the front/side yard with forays onto the driveway and street pavements. That eats a lot of tires and is a bit rough on bodies too if one isn't careful, but its what I've got and I would rather buy tires than let my R/Cs sit on a shelf and feel ignored.

Sometimes I go to a park nearby with tennis courts for fast touring cars, sand and dirt for buggies and big wide open spaces for monster trucks. The only problem is that on really nice days it is swarming with people, but that's to be expected.

Sadly, no track or community/club racing within hours of where I live, so it is really a solo adventure. An R/C club locally would be fantastic, but it just isn't likely based on how little interest there seems to be for R/C in general in this area.

[Zaurusman 0]

I've really lucked out with the part of Dallas I live in, for only 4 miles away is a hobby shop with both indoor carpet and dirt tracks. In fact, now they're building a small track for crawlers and I'm sore tempted to build one. Either way, a friend and I sometimes go there at lunch to run our cars. There's also a large stretch of dirt/gravel/bits of asphalt at a nearby park where I run my Grasshopper, and a school parking lot just down the street from me where there's a bus lot with evenly spaced bus markers on the concrete that makes for an excellent high-speed slalom.

Come to think of it, I couldn't have picked a better time to get back into the hobby. Now just watch -- I'll probably end up switching jobs and moving across town soon.

[terry.sc 16]

Im based in rotherham, south yorkshire and would love it if there was a club closeby that i could join,

Not far from the UKs biggest indoor touring car championship, the BIWS at the Don Valley stadium, run by the Sheffield and District model car club. According to the BRCAs club list there's also Doncaster touring car club and Stocksbridge, and not too far away there's Worksop, home of the biggest indoor buggy meetings in the UK including the Players and Schumacher indoor series. Further afield there's Chesterfield Auto Racing Society, home to some of the countries top 1/12th scale drivers.

Or you can always do what I do, and run your own club.

[MonsterYeti 0]

My trucks get run over the army training ground near fleet in hampshire

[tamiya monkey 223]

Not far from the UKs biggest indoor touring car championship, the BIWS at the Don Valley stadium, run by the Sheffield and District model car club. According to the BRCAs club list there's also Doncaster touring car club and Stocksbridge, and not too far away there's Worksop, home of the biggest indoor buggy meetings in the UK including the Players and Schumacher indoor series. Further afield there's Chesterfield Auto Racing Society, home to some of the countries top 1/12th scale drivers.

Or you can always do what I do, and run your own club.

Didn't realise i was so close to so many rc clubs, going to have closer look at there sites, cheers fella.

[SteveB 11]

For years I ran my RC's by myself, bashing offroad buggys & trucks on local farmland. Then I got bored of that, sold most of my gear and basically gave up the hobby for a few years. But then in January I joined my local club and have been indoor carpet racing a Tamiya M03/M05 every week since then. I thoroughly recommend joining a club if you can, I find I get a lot more enjoyment out of the hobby now, I only wish I'd started racing years ago.

[markbt73 4762]

I'm lucky enough to have a backyard that looks like it was made for off-road RC cars. At the far end of the yard is a 45-degree hillside covered in weeds, leading up to a flat plateau at the top with a big maple tree in the middle of it. The rest of the yard is relatively flat but rough, so it's a quick blast across the yard, up the hill as far as you can get (only the Hotshot adn my Axial crawler can make it to the top), back down again, around a little circular brick thingy, and back again. I'm working on plans for a little crawler obstacle course on the hillside, but it'll have to wait until springtime now.

For on-road, all I have is the driveway, which is also home to all three 1:1 cars (no garage). This is why I have one on-road car and half a dozen off-roaders.

[Novastar 241]

Its great to see people making do with what they and having fun instead of giving up this non-mainstream hobby due to a lack of facilities. I really missed the boat here in regards to a club and track, both disappeared in the early 90's just as I bought my first Tamiya. So although we have plenty of dirt on the edge of town this is really dirt bike territory and not RC friendly so I drive out to the Silverton dry creekbed to run my cars. Mainly the Monster variety due to the deep sand although there are some harder areas to run my buggies.

[slimmy 0]

I live in North Pole Alaska. I run in my backyard. And occasionally at a local bmx track or a gravel pit/construction site.

[53HRA 537]

I run mine in the street and garden rock crawlers sometimes in the house,climbing over random stuff!

[skip665 169]

Although I dont run mine as often as I would like I have a nice BMX track nearby for monsters (bit tough on shells though!) which also has a nice tennis court for drifting. Not too far from a good scale woodland playground and if I dont get to any of those I race my M03 or M01 every other Weds night. Recently bought a Globeliner which so far has only been run indoors - but the MFu functions make being indoors fun anyway

[chris350z 0]

i have made a little offroad track in my garden. it has 2 burms and a foot high jump.

chris

[Butler 328]

Empty industrial estate on a Sunday and with a load of firehose we layout a rough track.

[Tamiya1/10 381]

The King Hauler with the air hong turn on full...in the early morning, meaning at around 8:00am, on January 1, in my son's bed room. The truck did not sustained any pillow damage.

I have an XC which I run in the golf course sand traps back of my house after hours. I don't get in trouble with the grounds keeper because they groom the traps in the morning and my next door neighbor is the owner of the course and I golf with him once in a while. The key is not who you know in this case, but my active does not effect the course operation in any way.