ChitownRC

My buddy mentioned it to me. I believe its up north. Take Nerge west til it ends and there is a bmx track in the woods. Anyone hear of this? I'll have to find out more.

Nerge west.. that ends around roselle road and becomes a neighborhood. There used to be some BMX jumps there that were visible from the elgin Ohare but the residents of that neighborhood leveled them and put up no tresspassing signs a couple years ago. I've not checked that out since then. I can cruise by there tomorow and see if there is anyhitng else buit up.

Thats like 5 min from me, I'll swing by and check it out too.

SIX! There you are. alute:

lol.. yeah I went on the Hot Rod Power tour and ended up staying at my grandparents house in Florida for an extra week since I was already there. I just got back the other day.

Welcome back Six... We were a little worried. Last time we had heard from you was around the time your Uncle was having med problems. Glad to hear that wasn't the cause of your absence.

:joy: I went by this spot today on my way home, check it out....

looks like a track to me!

We have to all meet there one time and see if we should claim it as our new bash spot.

Looks like we can make a little track out of what's already there. Kinda like Berwyn but bigger

man thats pretty darn close to the express way. I would hate to see a glitch and hit a jump right into oncomming traffic doing 85mph. Hey it could happen

From the looks of it, you'd have to get over the chain link fence then drive through alot of very tall grass, then over the retaining wall before you got on the highway.

Yeah your'e right, the chainlink fence keeps you from getting out onto the grass to go up to the expressway, and that retaining wall is like 12' tall.

You access it off of Roselle Rd. and Nerge. At that intersection take Nerge west (it's actually Pratt Blvd.) and follow it down untill just before it makes a hard right (1/4 mile maybe). There are three or four trails leading in(only about 10-15ft. of the road) I was standing just inside the second to last trail when I took those pics.

i didnt say it would happen but merely it would suck if it was possible. Remember i said hey it could happen. Not that it ever will but whatever. Id bash there in a second.

cruised by there today. That is the same spot that a couple years ago was leveled and no tresspassing signs put up. It used to be 5x the size of whats there now. cool part is those jumps are 5 mins from my house and drive one more exit farther west down the elgin ohare and you would be at the BISCO lot I run the landmax at on the weekends.

Hey Six,
Drop me a line the next time your headed over there or to Bisco. I'm only 5min.away from either one. :racing:

Doh.. wish I would have seen your post earlier. I went to BISCO last evening (sat) actaully ran into another guy that was driving around looking for a lot to run his 1/10 nitro Yokomo. Pretty cool guy.

Nice....well maybe next time :wavey:

Hi all,

I just found this site today, nice to see folks so close to home (The Trails, SW of Plum Grove & Nerge)

I make lap counters for R/C racing and would like to test some new stuff and grab some video, especially off-road, next time you guys are out bashing off Pratt or at Bisco if that's OK.


Craig
http://www.rclapcounter.com

Welcome to the club! Your a member now whether you like it or not!

Unfortunately, my only current R/C rides are some 18th scale BRP cars and an old RC10L bare chassis with 3 wheels
When some more dough comes my way, I need to get something better.

What's most popular around the Roselle/Schaumburg area? I'd like to get in on some informal competition.

Craig
http://www.rclapcounter.com

Welcome neighbor...I'm right down the street in Ventura @ Plum Grove & Granville

Craig Wrote:I make lap counters for R/C racing and would like to test some new stuff and grab some video

That's cool stuff^^^^^

you could still be into the hobby without even owning an RC doing stuff like that. :headbang:

I've been into RC since I was a kid, mostly planes though. My first car was a Tamiya Lambo kit with a hard plastic body, 5 cell battery, 05 motor and an MRC 2 stick radio. Pistol grips weren't out yet. A bunch of Grasshoppers followed this. The missing link has always been someone to race with, zipping up and down the street looses its luster after a while.

Obsessive, you may have seen one of my e-planes behind that school on the corner.

I built the first counter for one of those portable nascar tracks and it just grew from there.
After chatting with a few clubs about the system, I'm starting to itch for some racing myself.

That's cool, the school is right down the street from me, I took my RS4 up there to break it in.

Grasshoppers, Hornets, RC10's and Ultimas...that brings me back (crap I'm getting old)

Welcome Craig. Like Tex said, you are now one of us... Next time we organize a Bash, which should be SOON... you should get together with obsessive, and carpool out. Even if you don't have anything of your own to run, it will give you a chance to meet everyone.

thenewguy821 Wrote:Next time we organize a Bash, which should be SOON...

Maybe I will be able to make it out there