New Club North Devon indoor carpet + Astro tracks

[tonydevon]

http://www.northdevonrcmodels.co.uk/home/4582015159

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Cheers Tony.

[Team 36]

The shop close at 4pm today normal hours tomorrow 10am- 5pm!!

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Well we went and had a very pleasant and productive meeting with the guys (Chris and David) at the new local model shop this afternoon to dicuss how we might be able to help each othe out in creating more of an rc scene in the area. They both seemed like really nice guys and were extremely positive about it all .

We have left a couple of big posters in the shop and Chris has agreed to be the last of the 4 BRCA registered officials for the club. We have all his BRCA license details already so that should all be in the post next week

At the moment they don't have many race spec kits or parts, but they were extremely open to help in picking a good selection of the top race kits to get in stock so hopefully they will have them available soon.

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Almost forgot that Brimmerz had a half decent panoramic of the track as we ran it for most of last summer. A lot of work to do this year to really bring the level up a bit. may have to throw a track building party at some point

[scattyv]

Track Layout.


Airborne Mini 8ight

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Right I thought it time I gave an update on proceedings.

This weekend we cancelled indoor racing as we felt we should take advantage of the fantastic weather and start the work required to get the Astro track prepared for the coming season.

We managed to make a good start, getting all the ramps taken down and all the astro De-weeded and taken up. Upon lifting it we could see the extensive mole city that appears to have grown up underneath
It think we are going to have to rotovate the whole track before leveling in the hope that that this will get rid of them.

Were hoping that the weather holds out for next weekend so that we can make some more good headway as I think we need another 3-4 days work on site to get what we want done.

If anybody is available to come and help on any of the upcoming work days (which I will post up here) it would be much appreciated as when it comes to astro many hands makes light(er) work.

[scattyv]

Here is the track as it is after a hard days work on Saturday!

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Well after many delays (new son being born, the weather, raising funds etc ) we have now pretty much finished a complete overhaul of the Astro track.

Pics in link - http://sos-mmrc.com/_photos/MyrthwoodRCTrack/index.html (photo buckets not working for some reason?)

After much discussion with my parents who own the land it was decided that if we were going to build up the venue as a club it would need to be moved to a different part of the field and a proper hard standing car park needed to be laid so as that the ground did not get churned up.

In doing this we have been able to expand the track a bit to about 450sqm (I know its still not big but hey better than nowt). It also enabled us to build up the banks and use them to add some natural features.

We've just finished cutting a load of modular ramp formers that we will assemble tomorrow , this will allow us to quickly change layouts and feature selection in the future.

Then pretty much the "only" things required are a new bigger rostrum as the aluminium scaffold we currently use will only hold 6 at a time (and they are split over to levels) and to fill all the hose with chippings.

Were looking at having a free open day 19th of July with events fortnightly from then on.

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Here is a link to the location on Bing maps.

http://binged.it/1ohMSR3

[jonathan may]

looking good guys

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Cheers Jon,

Been lots of issues, hard work and money spent by 4-5 of us way but we're pleased with how it's looking now. But i'm sure that you can understand those issues

Looking forward to finally getting racing again

[rdr]

guys give me a ring on 07791011037, i may have something you might want for your track.

Tom.

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So we got out to the track both Saturday and Sunday this weekend to get more done

We assembled 4 of the 8 modular ramps / features, got a load of the hose filled with gravel (finally!!) and even got a bit of racing in

Really pleased to say the ramps are perfect for both 10th and micro scales.
In fact in general we are really pleased with how well the micros are handling the track! Its still off-roading but that's how it should be with these cars. It was one of our major goals was to make the surface smooth enough that micro's could run successfully (last track ended up a bit to bumpy after the mole attacks) and from our little testing they definitely do my times in my custom GTB were less than 2 second of the 10th times (22 sec as apposed to 20). I would love to say that's just my driving but in the same car were all within a few 10ths of each other.

I'm just uploading a couple of quick vids i took of a couple of laps on my phone (I'm no camera man I must warn you), as soon as they're done I'll put up a link.


So I would like to gauge interest in running a free open day? Are there any people on here who would be interested in coming along? We'll obviously be advertising in the local area as well but would be good to get some local oopler's down

I did manage to take 1 single photo (as I said no camera man).
One thing it does show is the need to get a leaf blower

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Here a the couple of quick vids i took yesterday. Again sorry bout the quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvY...ature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ViF...ature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPK8...ature=youtu.be

Once we get the rest of the features built it should make the lap more exciting and slow the lap times down a bit.

[jonathan may]

Looks awsome im in for a open day

[jonathan may]

Do you have or going to setup a facebook page quite a few racers dont go on oople and would help spread the word

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Hiya. Good stuff were getting there SLooowly but surely. Each year we've taken big steps in the right direction. Never intended to spend so much money (that we don't really have) on it but we really do want people to race against

Matt has set up a face book group for us - https://www.facebook.com/groups/Bidefordbayrc/

[Mowen208fly]

Great to see some progress with this project this is how good things start as long as everyone is patient! as rome wasnt built in a day Again good luck and any questions please ask away and good to see the local shop and track supporting each other it is the way forward

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Cheers Martin,

As is often the case life commitments and money get in the way sometimes

We have most things covered now - our biggest hurdle to overcome is getting a rostrum sorted.

Regarding the rc shop they are really nice guys in there and i'm happy we can help each other out.