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12-08-2007, 10:04 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aurora
Posts: 4
|  A new place to crawl in Chicagoland! Hey everyone, it's winter in the midwest and there's not many warm places to crawl for a while. That is unless you live in the Chicago area. Hobbytown USA in Naperville, Illinois is in the midst of building a new indoor Rock Crawling Course. Construction should be complete by Dec. 14th and if it goes well there are plans to possibly/probably expand after the first of the year. It will be open (and free!  ) during business hours with a competition schedule to come soon. The course will be demanding enough that experienced crawlers will have fun, but newbies can make it through. It's even going to have a Heli-pad for the boss' Blade CX2! Hope you can come visit! Will post photos when I can. Last edited by jayk72; 12-08-2007 at 10:07 PM. Reason: Could not post a photo |
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12-08-2007, 10:09 PM
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| MWRCA'er   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Byron, IL
Posts: 3,781
| Hmm, might check it out.. Hour and 30minutes away... Maybe we could setup some sort of event or something on here. |
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12-09-2007, 07:25 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Iowa
Posts: 83
| 4 hrs or so for us Iowa guys. Sounds good keep us posted MaxxRunner |
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12-09-2007, 07:43 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Salem
Posts: 250
| I am in Oregon but have to go to Glenview sometimes for work how close is that? |
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12-09-2007, 07:49 PM
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| Gold Star Baby!   Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
Posts: 6,821
| I get to Chicago occasionally for business, get some pictures up please  |
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12-09-2007, 08:01 PM
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| MWRCA'er Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Byron, IL
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| If you need help posting them up let me know. |
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12-09-2007, 08:24 PM
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| Mayor of Bedrock   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 1st and Amistad
Posts: 2,261
| Sounds interesting, I too make it to Chicago on business Once and a while. Keep us posted. |
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12-09-2007, 08:44 PM
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| Gold Star Baby! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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| Hey freetimecrawler, when did you become the Evil Mayor of Bedrock? That's not your style your the good Mayor. ..Storm |
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12-09-2007, 10:06 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: far from here
Posts: 81
| Hey Jay, Great Job on the flyer! I really hope this project will get the crawlers off and running at the store! We're getting the Rocks this week and should have a good course to start off with before the building begins.   |
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12-09-2007, 10:47 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
Posts: 1,555
| This one should be pretty nice once done, I've already Demo'd the AX-10 in the pic and my WK on what's there sofar |
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12-10-2007, 02:16 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: CA
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12-10-2007, 08:22 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aurora
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| I'm on my way out the door to go get the rock delivered so we should have a good start by the end of the day tomorrow. If anyone has any ideas or input feel free to put it up here! I'll try to get some pics posted in the next day or two. The store owner came up with an idea yesterday of doing Friday night crawling until 10pm with pizza and pop supplied by us, not bad. -Jay K. |
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12-10-2007, 10:13 AM
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| Shut up Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Romeotucky
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| Sorry I couldnt make it in on Saturday.... Ill stop by during the day Wednesday with IA...there better be something for me to break parts on ..... |
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12-10-2007, 07:11 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aurora
Posts: 4
| Well the rock is in... most of it. 5 tons and it's still not enough  ! MUST HAVE MORE ROCK!!! It's a little interesting right now because we waited a week too long and everything got frozen and muddy so until everything dries out it's a mess. If you want to break something we can probably arrange it... might just have to pile things a bit higher.-Jay |
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12-10-2007, 07:14 PM
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| Web Wheeling   Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
Posts: 2,837
| From working with field rock in the past, I have found that using a filler material such as dirt or gravel helps a lot. With small boulders, you end up with a lot of pockets that catch tires. Also if you start with a base of gravel or dirt, you can shape the course before using any rock. Then place the rocks on top of the base. |
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12-11-2007, 12:19 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: CA
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12-11-2007, 06:50 AM
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| Shut up Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Romeotucky
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| I started with 16 tons on my course and it barely did much.... Light weight manmade rocks are the way to go |
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12-11-2007, 08:01 AM
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| Web Wheeling Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities
Posts: 2,837
| I didn't get a full on side picture of the course we built for the Xgames event this year. But we ended up with a decent sized course using only 1 ton of rock.We started out with a big pile of dirt, which we shaped before hand. We should have made it flatter... But after the dirt was shaped, we just placed the rocks on top of it. Before we put the rocks on the dirt pile, the rocks looked pretty pathetic. The dirt made a world of difference, and it was actually crawlable this year. |
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12-11-2007, 08:33 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aurora
Posts: 4
| Keep them recommendations coming! This is all useful stuff. As mentioned, 5 tons is not as much as one would think so we might have to go back and do some gravel underneath because hell yeah, rock get's expensive. If anyone has pics of something we could look at, please do post! We want to make this course as good as possible, no sense going through all of the work for a half-assed course right? Thanks for the input! -Jay |
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12-11-2007, 10:40 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: May 2007 Location: Iowa
Posts: 19
|  I'll have to stop by and check it out when we visit my parents for Christmas. They still live in Aurora. Heard a rumor yesterday that my local Hobby Town in Ames might be closing in Jan. :-( |
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