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Originally Posted by Thargor
hey guys.....
i think RC racing needs more promotion.... i was looking at go pro camera vids on you tube when i came across a guy who had put one on his car and it got me wondering what was going on in the rc world. i used to race 20 years ago at bolton buggy club and when i read about LiPo batterys and brushless motors and 2ghz transmitters i thought wow ..... surly with all this new technology people should be attracted back to the sport... i know i am..
im not allowed to spend all my money on a new car and radio gear atm though as im moving house..blah blah...
as for the other stuff you guys mentioned cheap plastic trophies are really good for kids... ive still got some of mine... (only the big final wins though... i threw away the 3 in the g final ones  )
and another idea i had to help get people involved in setting up the track would be to get a layout of the floor space drawn out and get people who come to the club to design a track... the winning design is used that week and if you had drawn the track you would want to help build it... and also it might speed it up having a drawn out plan.... just a thought i had while eating my beans on toast.... |
We did that when Bury ran the indoor series at Chadderton - each meeting a couple of us would draw up a track, we'd choose 1 and build it. But even then translating drawing into track wasn't easy. Setting up a track in a bare hall with or without a plan is tricky.
I agree about the promotion though. Roger mentioned lack of kids racing - a good part of that is so few even know racing exists. I'm a teacher, and my pupils are stunned at what our cars can do, and that there is organised racing. Now my current pupils don't have the income or resources to afford race cars (its a poor area and most are new arrivals to the UK), but I've worked other places where it might well be more successful, if we even tried. I see plenty of kids bashing RC's - they just don't know there is more than that.
Trophies I never saw the point of. Pot hunting used to mean it was better to be 1st in the C than 4th in the B which always seemed absurd to me.
Anyway, you won't need a new car to come run at Bury. Bring the ancient one and I'll get it working....