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Cork Race meeting
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13-04-2005 7:54am#1
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Mickb wrote:...Also racing indoors there is no need to glue the tyre to the rim/wheel. So one set of wheels (inserts) can be used for years.......
Actually, you can glue them on and get 'em off later.
Just use high viscosity cyanoacrylate glue, ...3 dots of it on each rim.
The tyre won't move in normal use, but when you want to change/renew the tyre all it takes is six snips with a scalpel for a release job.
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Hey guys...just came across this thread....fromer Cork radio Car Club members will know me well.
JP...I hate to put a dampener on things but Mayfield wont give u the hall without insurance. The club that was CRCC didnt renew their insurance.
In fact, I think you'll find it very hard to get anywhere these days without insurance.
Also, the transponder system is not belong to the club anymore. Noel Q and myself were responsible for paying it off when the club no longer continued to meet.0 -
How necessary is a transponder system?Ken A wrote:Also, the transponder system is not belong to the club anymore. Noel Q and myself were responsible for paying it off when the club no longer continued to meet.
How often is there a neck and neck finish? 0 -
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SLIM19198 wrote:Who owns the transponder system so now?
Not involved with any of Cork's affairs, but I too find the last statement Ken A made a little odd....Ken A wrote:Also, the transponder system is not belong to the club anymore. Noel Q and myself were responsible for paying it off when the club no longer continued to meet.
To me, it sounds like the club was paying for it, but when it disbanded 2 people had to finish the payments on it with their own money. This would mean that the club own a percentage of it, and the 2 people who finished paying it off own the precentage they paid for, no?
Unless of course these 2 people paid for it in full, in which case the transponder system is of course theirs
Sorry if I've misunderstood something,
Fobia.0 -
coolwings wrote:How necessary is a transponder system? How often is there a neck and neck finish?
If you have ever raced at competition level mate you wouldnt have to ask this !!
It would be almost pre-historic to run a race meeting nowadays without the automated lap counting system and corresponding software.
I'm sure Mick B could add one or two things to this.0 -
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Ken A wrote:I personally dont think a meeting in Cork will work. But hey, who am I to voice my opinion. I have only raced R/c cars On road & off-road for about 10 years !!!
I'm not trying to deny you an opinion, but I personally think you are wrong.
1) You say it cost you 100euro a day to rent a hall? Surely you'd only be racing for 3 hours or so, why rent it for the full day (I think 100euro is over the top anyways, a community centre should be cheap enough).
2)If you stopped charging people 5-8euro a week and instead simply charged membership fees (as most clubs do), then you'd be guarenteed to have the hall paid for and people not showing up wouldn't bother you.
3) Even if you kept your old ways of running it, and just put up the race fees to 12 euro, you could get by on a few people, and with the new members you'd get today (kids, and some people from this board), you should easily be able to get 10 people per meeting.
Thus, I think you're being a little stubborn in saying that a Cork club is impossible
My 2 cents,
Fobia.0 -
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The only decent sized hall we could get ( bearing in mind these cars can get up to 40mph) was in Mayfield and it costs 35e/ph.Fobia wrote:I'm not trying to deny you an opinion, but I personally think you are wrong.
1) You say it cost you 100euro a day to rent a hall? Surely you'd only be racing for 3 hours or so, why rent it for the full day (I think 100euro is over the top anyways, a community centre should be cheap enough).
2)If you stopped charging people 5-8euro a week and instead simply charged membership fees (as most clubs do), then you'd be guarenteed to have the hall paid for and people not showing up wouldn't bother you.
3) Even if you kept your old ways of running it, and just put up the race fees to 12 euro, you could get by on a few people, and with the new members you'd get today (kids, and some people from this board), you should easily be able to get 10 people per meeting.
Thus, I think you're being a little stubborn in saying that a Cork club is impossible
My 2 cents,
Fobia.
Membership fees in our old club was to pay for the insurance of the club which normally cost somewhere between 6oo and 800 euro.
I'm not saying a Cork meet is impossible, I've tried along with a few others for 12 months before we stopped racing in Cork to keep the club afloat and get people racing etc but the interest just doesnt appear to be there. Maybe half a dozen but thats about it. And personally, for the amount of gear I had to carry, with the computer and transponder system, and with it taking half an hour to set it up and half an hour to take it down again at the end ,didnt think it was worth the hassle. And oh...I ran most of the meetings too !
If anyone else wants to give it a go by all means I'll go and watch to see how it's done !0 -
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Ken A wrote:....And personally, for the amount of gear I had to carry, with the computer and transponder system, and with it taking half an hour to set it up and half an hour to take it down again at the end ,didnt think it was worth the hassle. ....Ken A wrote:....Well when it's costing you 100euros a day to race ( fees for the hall ) and you charge 5-8 euros race fees ...you do the maths ....
It is perfectly clear to me why the old club "ran down".
Some clubs exist to simplify the hobby for beginners, pass on expertise, and generally reduce the cost of doing modelling. These clubs are thriving up and down Ireland.
Other clubs quickly "become elitist", tout high priced gear, start winner takes all type leagues, charging for fancy monitoring gear, and generally puts beginners off by increasing the cost of the hobby. No disrespect to anyone but this sort of club usually has been taken over by someone who wants the other members to "pay for their hobby costs". This is a competitive sort of club good for running competitions but not good for new members. These clubs are necessary, but the presence of cheating and the extraordinary measures to fight cheating, just put me right off.
I don't enjoy the time spent there joining in that.
I guess I just prefer a different type of club ....
I guess that a lot of off-road RCers have also voted against race clubs by choosing models that can be used in places where clubs aren't present....
Coolwings - who likes to fly out on the mountains well away from all the hassle some modellers try to put into his hobby
(flame suit on and awaiting lots of crossfire ) 0
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