track going up in huntley

[Astro]

Well any word on this place??? I heard the hold up was the wife wanted to plant flowers there and was taking for ever. Also heard this was somewhat of a pipedream and would never come about. I hope this place opens up. There is not enough local places for us up here to run.

[victor v]

Nope no places at all up here. The drive to Leisure isnt too bad on sundays.

[cheesecake]

from what i hear its a no go

[ttm]

thats to bad but good news is there is going to be a out door track in rockford soon i seen the info on rctech.net

[allan42r]

that would work out great for you, to bad the ol cherry valley's not still running. that was always fun

[cheesecake]

wow cherry valleys that was back in the day

[allan42r]

thats when only a few of us ran gas trucks like ira, ken,rod,greg,scott,that track was great. and no one ran 1/8, you had to travel to run gas thats why i quit. after you run gas electric just seemed boring

[jhautz]

So I guess its never gonna happen.

They still got a website though.mash:

winnescircle

[rusty savage]

so we have all this room out here and folks that like to get out and rc... are there any bash spots out here? bmx tracks in the forest? there is soo much room! how about we construction site jump! my area in belvidere is chalked full of them.

[ttm]

theres talk about a new track in the belvidere area i think p.grove go to R/C Tech :: the #1 online r/c racing community in the il. wis. thread under track in rockford. theres more info

[BobWoodhouse]

Who are all of you guys who remember Valley Farms Raceway? I now live just a few miles from there, but they are no more.

I see a fine fellow from RaceEmRc is proposing a track in the area. I hope it works. I wrote him a letter of support. If it doesn't work out for that track, I am going to need some advisors to see how to develop my back yard into an electric-only (sorry, its the noise) racing area. This years track was just a 50x40 small personal track for practice. I can just mark out an area in the dirt for my farmer not to use in the next planting season.

[rusty savage]

well if RaceEm dosent come through ill swing out in the spring if you let me bash on it!

[BobWoodhouse]

I was wondering if my land would be fun to bash on since it is pretty flat. I am occasionally running at a track out of town (extremerconline.com for a picture) and they have some wooden jumps that really work out well. I anticipated making some next year just like theirs. They have some carpet on the face -- might have to find some "outdoor" carpet for me.

I am really really hoping that RaceEmRc works out, so I can just show up and race. You know our part of the state is way short on track space, except maybe for DirtDawgs, which I have had a hard time locating, BTW.

What I probably need to do is find a club that already knows what they are doing and that matches my goals mostly and assign them a piece of dirt. There is no way I could run a track by myself -- what if I had to work out of town one weekend, what if my track design ideas are stupid, etc. I like the way the MARCCA club near Madison works at that farm.

If you feel that bashing on flat ground would be worthwhile, I could setup a time. But I need to keep it towards electrics just to keep reasoanble neighbor realtionships.

[cheesecake]

the dirtdawgs track is right by route 47 and keslinger. pm sent

[BobWoodhouse]

Thanks. I thought it was a set of more than 1 track, but you have this main track? I think I tried to find you on a day that was a special race maybe near a Hobbytown or something.

[Green Hornet]

the dirtdawgs track is right by route 47 and keslinger. pm sent

what track is that??

[rocco79]

The dirtdawgs....

[BobWoodhouse]

Hey, that track says 51 minutes from my house! That is pretty close. Do you get any electric out there? Will a 2008 schedule come out later? What are the turnouts like, the layout, the dirt, the tires? What are you looking to do next?

[cheesecake]

well electric we had none last year. i wish we had more people run electric. the 2008 schedule will hopefully be out soon.

[MaxxGS]

Dirt Dawgs did have 3 tracks at one time but now it's just one big track and the property owner is also a member / racer. The owner pretty much gives us the ability to do what we want with the track as far as the layout and events.

Dirt Dawgs Off-road R/C Club

[BobWoodhouse]

How many electrics to make a class?

Is the track too rutted for 1/10th?

I think I need to find an electric club to run my backyard just like the track you have -- if you ever want to consider a branch-track.

Are there any club meetings coming up?