Gateway Scale Rock Crawlers

[RCminded]

Gateway Scale Rock Crawlers

Here is where I will be posting info on our new group for anyone who is interested. We are GSRC and though we have only been around a few months our numbers are growing rapidly. So far we have only met a handful of times but I look forward to having many more meets in the near future, possibly even setting up a few comps.

My name is Chris and I along with a few others have gotten the ball rolling on a St. Louis based club. I encourage anyone who is already involved with the group or anyone who is interested to post up here. Feel free to introduce yourselves: what rigs you have, your skill level, best times for you to crawl, location and whatever. Also anyone who is interested in staying up to date on get togethers and other club activities can e-mail me and I will e-mail you new information from time to time.

For our first meetingof 2008 I was thinking Sunday the first weekend in March, 3/2/08 around noon. If anyone wants to get together before then let me know, otherwise this will give everyone time to get their stuff running and will let the weather warm up a bit. For all who don't already know we have been meeting at Simpson park of Marshall road in the Kirkwood Valley Park area(it is just down the road from Dirtburners the offraod rc track). We are currently looking for more areas to crawl so feel free to make suggestions.

I look forward to talking to everyone and gearing up for a great year of crawling!


Edit: We are not a scale only group. All crawlers are welcome! from scale to super and in between.

[mtdriver]

Although I dont have any crawling rigs at this time, this is great and I may just have to get another. Its been bothering me not having one. Thinking tube chassis TXT, as I have axles....

If anyone in the area shops at Mark Twain Hobby, let yourself be known when you come in, ask for Jason if you like (thats me). You can even tell me who you are in this thead if Chris doesnt mind...Im sure I have talked to you if you shop at MTH. You could say Im the only one who gives a hoot about crawlers there.

I havnt been there to crawl in a couple years, but if anyone is in St. Peters, the rocks around the pond in front of City Hall is a great place to go. Would take a super class rig to traverse a lot of obstacles though, most of the rocks are of fair size.

Chris, if the club makes it far enough that the talk of flyers get thrown around, Ill gladly throw some in the flyer bins at the shop.

Maybe by spring time Ill have another rig? Who knows...

Jason

[JohnRobHolmes]

Unholy is in your area.

[dezfan]

PM Hawk Mortimer as well, he is from the St. Louis area as well I believe.

Good Luck!

[elvis]

I'm here and ready to go anytime. I work overnight so anytime of day works for me. I have been to one of the meets at simpson. My name is John I'm the short guy with the supercharged minivan.

Rigs, TLT alxe 2.2 FJ40 primer, TXT mostly stock, F350 high lift Black/silver 90 deg clocked tranny on 1.9 mudslingers.

My preferred crawl spot is creek trail in barnhart mo. I'd like to take the club there this year for some trail action! Bring bug repellent (the mosquitoes are bad) Also be waterproof or suffer catastrophic magic smoke loss.

I look forward to this season with a club that actually meets up. It should be a good time.

[johnson22456]

My name is Eric, I hang out with John and we have been getting together for awhile and just trying to find a nice place to crawl. Last week we drove down to elephant rock state park south of Potosi. It was about a 45min drive from where I'm from here in Hillsboro, but it was worth it. Very nice place to crawl with a lot of different terrain. I am also available a lot durring the week and some weekends. I am ready to get a club up and going so count me in.

[hairba11]

This is Tim, I have a couple of rigs in various stages of incompletion I had a blast at simpson park the one time i finally made it. I'll have to bring a camera next time so we can show off the places we crawl.

[RCminded]

As previously stated my name is Chris. I have a mostly stock wheely king 4WD 4WS, a custom 2.2 tuber sitting on WK axles and a semi-complete scale 1.9 rig built with an AX-10 and TCS X-trail chassis. Right now I work to jobs and go to school so I have no time at all, but in march school is pretty much over and I will be moving to a new single job so I will have time then. That is pretty much the reason that I want to meet in march but like I said if anyone wants to get together earlier I don't mind planning it even though I probably won't make it out.

Anyone who will come out to Simpson park on 3/2/08 please let me know via email posting or PMing me, that way I can get some fliers together to post up around some of the local hobby shops.

[Unholy]

As JRH mentioned I am nearby, but on the Illinois side of the Mississippi.

Haven't gotten bitten by the scale bug as of yet though...

[max power]

You know I'm down for it, gotta break the Brat in;)

Where at Unholy?? I was just over there in Fairview Heights today.

[Hawk Mortimer]

Hawk here, missed the start up meeting and arrived 11/2 hours early at Simpson Park gtg, run all my batteries down and departed about 5 mins. before everyone started showing up. I was sure the meeting time was 11:00 Sunday morning. Oh well it's a great place for crawling and I had fun.


BUT I WILL BE AT THE MEETING ON "MARCH 2nd 2008" AT SIMPSON PARK AT NOON.


I don't have any thing that you could call scale, but I am working on one.

Got two "Supers" and one in work; My first was a "Stick" it is a great truck just needs some one who can drive it but I try, number 2 is a "Hustler" with two ESC's and a Mamba Max for each one, and a DX6 set up for two stick stirring. Power comes from two John Holmes "Scorpion brushless motors" talk about a hand full or is it two hands full, the in "works Super" is a "Pimp Cane" on two Clod axles (it may become a 2.2 class).

Got five 2.2 class crawlers and an AX10 in the works; two are tubers, one is a "TCS Gopher", TLT axles & R2D2 it is a great crawler and the other tuber I got from Dez over in Columbia still trying to get it to run the way it should having trouble with drive line, links and shocks.
3rd is a 2.2 Pimp Cane on clod axles, it is running real close to the max on tread width 12.5", VW body; 4th is an SW3 TLT axles, R2 tranny, brushless power and a camo painted Jeep body; 5th is a modified AX10 with HPI VW body.

Just hope I can keep them running and there wheels bolted in place.

Come on Unholy we need guys like you, when the club name was set I'm not sure any one had an understanding of the word "Scale" and how it's used in the RC crawling world. Come on give it a try.

I think most are in it for the "crawling" more so than the "scale" I could be wrong, I have missed all the GTG's so far.

Hawk

[Unholy]

Originally Posted by max power

You know I'm down for it, gotta break the Brat in;)

Where at Unholy?? I was just over there in Fairview Heights today.

I am inbetween Belleville and Milstadt.

I'll come out to some of your guys events for sure... probably not March second as I will be recovering from driving back from KC!

[RCminded]

Just saw that I forgot to mention, we are not a scale only group!

All crawlers of any shape and size are welcome.

The reason for the name was to get away from the popular and somewhat redundant **RCRC usage. The "scale" of GSRC is meant to signify smaller as in not 1:1, at least that was my aim. Not neccesarily scale as in resembling a full size rig as it is typically used in RC rock crawling. I understand it is little confusing, sorry for that.

We could change the name to GNNSRC or Gateway Not Neccesarily Scale Rock Crawlers...JK

I figure that will be a big crawling weekend for me too. I was planning on driving back from KC on sat night so I should have enough down time to get up in time on sun as long as I don't break anything at the Midwest Challenge.

[RCminded]

Unholy what rigs do you have? Are you competeing in pro or am at the midwest challenge. I myself will be in the amateur class since this is my first comp.

[Unholy]

The only thing I have thats in one piece right now is a Clod Stick Super...

I still have to build my 2.2 rig for KC... but it will be clod.

Not sure if it will be a Husler, a Stick, or something else...

I have enough axle sets now to build 5 rigs... 6 any day now!

[max power]

I'm going to build a comp rig, just haven't got around to it yet.

All I have right at the moment is my XC, TLT/Highlift Hybrid and my K2 Bronco.

[mazdaparts]

Didn't know there were so many crawlers this close. I'm a couple of hours south of STL down in Cape Girardeau. I'd really like to attend a GTG. I got a 14" wb TLT axled semi-scaler, 1/18th Nylint Jeep that is almost unmolested (working headlights), and a 1/6th F350 that I am currently building, using Emaxx tranny w/2speed, and my version 2 pvc/maxx axles.

[elvis]

I just met two guys today at a lhs that got ax-10's. They are new to crawling and had never heard of rccrawler.com so I told them about it and gave them my #. Hopefully we will be hearing from them soon.

[RCminded]

Yeah I met to guys the other day, they said they knew two more. One of them PMed me and I told him to post here but no signs yet. I have his e-mail though so I can get a hold of him.

It is good to see so may people posting up here, I am glad to see our club has a chance.

[elvis]

Yeah we need to keep the steam up on this or it will die like stlrcrc.
Does anyone here have a basement or warm garage we can put some rocks or make a trial course in till the weather warms up?
Maybe we could do a meet and greet somewhere while it's still too cold to crawl.